... institutionalization of the OSCE (as opposed, for example, to the African Union) have proved to be expressions of so short-sighted a policy. Russia has been invited to neither of them. In the case of NATO for the reason of her presumed capacity to challenge the American ... ... continent together with the institutions has inherited their policies, including that of containment of not only Russia but Germany as well, as has become obvious under the Trump Administration?
So, the alienation between Russia and the West is what ...
... Dmitri Trenin, RIAC Member, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, had a meeting with Jens Plötner, Political Director of Germany's Federal Foreign Office.
On May 6, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Dmitri Trenin, RIAC Member, Director ... ... including Rüdiger von Fritsch, the Ambassador of Germany.
The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting: Russia-Germany and Russia-the EU relations, the possibilities for reducing tensions between Moscow and Washington, and the prospects ...
The German Chancellor unequivocally reaffirmed Germany’s candidacy for leader of Europe and, more importantly, outlined a course ... ... Lindsey Graham (one of the masterminds behind the latest package of sanctions against Russia) taking pole position. However, we will not find out the winner until the next... ... counteracting Nord Stream 2 to withdrawing from the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran. The European Union was criticized for its indecisiveness regarding Venezuela: not all of...
... them by an escalation of tensions between regional players.
Present-day situation
The European Union offered all the Balkan peoples a so-called “European future”. The... ... region. Brussels simply has neither resources, nor desire to do it.
RIAC Longread “Russia in the Balkans”: Interests of the Leading Actors, Russia’s Presence in Southeast... ... representatives of Russia, the US, Great Britain, Turkey, France, Italy, Slovenia and Germany as international observers, with mediation on the part of the EU and the UN...
....S. strategy announced a year-and-a-half ago by President Donald Trump?
Clearly not Russia, whose relations with Washington were far from perfect even under the previous... ... the exception of Iran, Syria, Cuba and the other habitual targets of U.S. attacks, Germany and China have the most reason to be unhappy with the current U.S. policy.
Liana... ... Germany, for its part, has numerous fairly tangible obligations within NATO and the European Union. Berlin may be the driver of the European Union, but within NATO it often...
... lines. In reality, the project is one of the primary areas in Russia’s fight against the United States. Washington has been ... ... visit of U.S. senators to Bulgaria was soon followed by the refusal of the authorities in that country to go ahead with the Gazprom ... ... 2 would actually benefit Poland. The more Russian gas going to Germany, the greater the surplus of the raw material that can subsequently ... ... Package to include maritime parts of gas pipelines running into the European Union. The new rules would mean that Gazprom would only ...
... liberal global order” was proclaimed and upheld for a short while. And it is true that Russia had a hand in ruining it with its independent policy and actions in Ukraine and... ... World communism professed a similar doctrine in the twentieth century. Prior to that, crusaders and colonizers had tried to impose Christianity, now half-forgotten in the West... ... International law and norms of interstate relations were viciously trampled upon. In 1991, Germany and then the European Union as a whole recognized the independence of Croatia and Slovenia which...
... (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) with participation of the German Association for East European Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO) and German non-profit association Atlantik-Brücke organized public debate on the role of the U.S. and Russia in contemporary Europe and the prospects for development of relations between Germany, Washington, and Moscow.
On November 14, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) with participation of the German Association for East European Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO) ...
... at stimulating dialogue between members of parliaments of the two countries regarding international relations, security issues and globalization.
On February 20, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke about prospects of relations within "Russia–EU–U.S." triangle.