We are neighbours. Russia is part of Greater Europe. The European Union is a major player in the European space, but it is not the whole of Europe, no matter how some of the EU leaders juggle this word
Mr Minister, dear Augusto,
Mr Ivanov,
Colleagues, friends,
Thank you for inviting me to this conference ...
The UC Interview Series: Andrey Kortunov
In the interview for the The University Consortium
Andrey Kortunov
, Director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), shares his analysis of Russia´s relations with its neighbours, EU and China.
Interviewer:
Marc Friedli
is currently a Project Assistant at the European Leadership Network, where he is mainly working on the upcoming 2021 NPT Review Conference. He is a Dual M.A. candidate in European Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and the London...
Foreign viewpoints
After the reelection of Vladimir Putin for another term as president of the Russian Federation in March of this year, Russia is entering a new cycle of foreign and domestic policy. Russia's foreign policy at the moment is particularly fraught; the conflict in Syria, the continued uncertain status of the Donbass region of Ukraine, accusations of cyberwarfare and interference in US elections, and the Skripal poisoning incident in ...
... Russia–China relations. Nevertheless, we are only starting to find our feet in Asia, which is far from ready to perceive Russia as an integral part of the continent.
At the same time, Russia will have to make every effort to restore relations with the European Union, which, despite serious travails, has demonstrated far greater stability than expected. We often criticize the EU leadership for its selective approach in its relations with Russia, resulting from the so-called “Five Guiding Principles” ...
... godfather of the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends series) and the Bureau für Zeitgeschehen started to think about scenarios to better understand the trajectories of change within the multidimensional relationship between Russia, the US, the European Union and the post-Soviet space. The idea was to produce a set of plausible narratives about how this quadrilateral relationship – and the world – will look like after the end of the next policy cycle which presumably ends around the year ...