On May 13, Vienna hosted the Austrian Government-sponsored coordination meeting of European independent foundations and think tanks engaged in applied problems of global politics and international security, including Russian International Affairs Council represented by its Director General Andrey Kortunov, Austrian Bruno Kreisky Forum, Bulgarian Centre for Liberal Strategies, European Council on Foreign Relations, as well as Turkish Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies and Center for Strategic...
On March 25, RIAC President Igor Ivanov made a welcoming address at the opening of the third session of the Trilateral Dialog on New Atlanticism conducted by the Atlantic Council of the United States at Moscow Carnegie Center for International Peace.
Ellen Tauscher, Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense at the State Department, also addressed the forum, whose March 26 meeting was attended by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Program Director Ivan Timofeev, RIAC member Dmitry...
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeyev met Michael Pulch, Head of European External Action Service's Russia Division, and members of the EU Delegation to Russia.
The discussion centered on the ongoing trends in Russia-EU relations, future cooperation guidelines and ways for their implementation. RIAC also presented its latest research publications and reports, as well as planned events potentially attractive for its partners in the EU foreign affairs bodies.
... Today, Moscow aims at dynamic interaction with Brussels, since the global integration trends equal one year to ten, making cooperation an absolute must.
According to
Miroslav Lajcak
, upon independence the Slovak Republic chose to advance toward the European Union and NATO, although not in search of historic truth but for security reasons. Currently, the EU is Russia's main trade partner with a stable structure of commercial ties. However, the sides do not have a cooperation agreement since 2008,...
