... original civilization, ahead of Georgia and Armenia. Although the situation with Georgian textbooks is also complicated, there is at least some critical understanding that not all our political views and wishes would correspond to historical facts.
Ukraine is instructing Georgia on principles of free thinking and how to develop democracy, even though the perception of Kiev and both is not what most of Western democracies want.
As a result, it is obvious that the ‘Decolonization of Ukraine’ does not mean its liberation ...
... suffer losses in the Russian market. The country remains oriented towards the West, but clearly does not want to aggravate relations with Moscow. Georgia’s key interest is to prevent the reopening of territorial conflicts amis the developments in Ukraine. The balance of losses and gains for Georgia is not yet obvious.
Kazakhstan also plays the role of a hub for Russian business. Here, too, a significant influx of human capital from Russia is possible. Kazakhstan is a big market. A lot has also been done here to develop the financial infrastructure,...
... of international cooperation in combating coronavirus and preventing humanitarian emergencies in armed conflict zones.
The participants assessed the consequences of the pandemic for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Eastern Ukraine, as well as the potential role of such organizations as WHO, OSCE, and ICRC in providing humanitarian assistance to the population in conflict zones. The meeting was attended by over a hundred experts, diplomats, journalists, and public figures....
... allies of Turkey) are concerned about Russia and Turkey forming a kind of “Eurasian Alliance.”
Alexander Yermakov:
Challenges to Eurasian Security in the Coming Decade
The case of Kosovo described above is not so simple. Paradoxically, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Romania and Moldova all share the same position when it comes to not recognizing the independence of the former Serbian Autonomous Province. Yet, their views on ethnopolitical conflicts in the former Soviet countries are diametrically opposed....
...
2019 marks the 10
th
anniversary of the Eastern Partnership, a political initiative the EU launched in 2009 for developing relations with six eastern countries of the former socialist bloc. The collaboration program with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine was primarily intended as a means for introducing these countries to the European experience and approaches to developing their economies, political institutions and civil society. Given current events, however, Russia has a highly negative perception ...
... instance, in September 2018, the strategic command staff exercise
Cossack Freedom — 2018
was held and involved Ukrainian troops. A few months prior, in July 2018, the joint Ukraine–US Navy exercise
Sea Breeze 2018
was held in the Black Sea. In 2018, Georgia, Ukraine, France, and the US
held
joint exercises controlled by Romania’s Navy. The press service of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet also
reports
about regular exercises: on January 29, 2019, a planned drill involved the ASW corvette
Kasimov
entering a ...
... about the EU in Georgian context is that the EU has neither military means nor any vital strategic interests at stake in Georgia at all. The EU just wants peace and stability in Georgia. Once EU–Russia solutions have been found in the Baltics and in Ukraine, Georgian puzzle can and will be solved.
Other issues in Europe
Various issues include allegations of possible Russian connections into European politics, or perhaps also the other way around (we never hear about that). And the Skripal case. All these ...
... accept that it is a sensitive part of the relationship between NATO and the Alliance at the moment, but we’ve just had a NATO summit in Brussels. There has been no particular substantial move forward in terms of membership accession with regards to Georgia or the Ukraine. And there are very good reasons for that, including those that I have already described to you as the membership accession requirements, which as we stand today, have not been met. So it’s a moot question, quite frankly. Instead of looking ...
This publication includes 53 articles analysing the main development trends in the post-Soviet space – both the geopolitical region as a whole and the individual countries that make it up. The anthology consists of three sections: the first section is retrospective in nature and looks at the post-Soviet space 20 years after the collapse of the USSR; the second section analyses the current state of the former Soviet nations; and the third section provides a number of forecasts for the development...
... terms of the goals of the “Foreign Political Activity” state program of the Russian Federation, this is a positive result.
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However, the task of maintaining previously established connections turned out to be more difficult in case of Georgia.
AP /EPA / Maxim Shipenkov
Ivan Timofeev, Elena Alekseenkova:
Eurasia in Russian Foreign Policy:
Interests, Opportunities and
Constraints
Since 2014, Russia–Ukraine relations have been extremely tense. Today, they are far from the understanding stipulated in the 2013 Concept of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation: “…build up relations with Ukraine as a priority partner within the CIS,...
