... climate agenda and objectives of energy cooperation between Russia and the EU; traditional and new security challenges, etc.
On November 2, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), in partnership with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Russian Federation and the Delegation of the European Union to Russia, held the 9th meeting on the consequences of global changes and the future of Russia-EU relations within "Talk to an Ambassador" sessions by RIAC and the embassies ...
While the project has stalled since last year, Merkel has underlined Germany’s vital interest in privileged access to Russian gas
On October 7, the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his German counterpart Heiko Maas issued a
joint statement
condemning the “Russian involvement and responsibility” in ...
... how much you are willing to pay for it. Multilateralism might make German foreign policy less innovative or it might slow down German responses to various international challenges and crises. Moreover, numerous critics often perceive it as a sign of Germany’s weakness, lack of imagination or its reluctance to take a leadership role in world politics. I can even imagine that for some Germans, the outcomes of their continuous attachment to multilateralism sometimes becomes a source of frustrations ...
... build trust on specific issues, without mentoring, arrogance and sarcasm on either side
The Carnegie Moscow Center’s web site has published an article by my colleague Sabine Fischer: “
From Gas Pipeline to Navalny. What Russia Doesn’t Get About Germany
"
Liana Fix:
The Times for a Special Relationship Between Germany and Russia Are Over
She attempts to reflect on the aggravation of relations between Russia and Germany in the context of the Navalny case, and also to answer why Moscow mistakenly ...
... Meetings was held. It organized by the Gorchakov Fund and the German-Russian Forum
On July 16, 2020, the VI Youth Forum of the Potsdam Meetings was held. It organized by the Gorchakov Fund and the German-Russian Forum. The theme of the conference is «Germany-Russia-EU: The Pandemic and Its Influence on Foreign and Security Policies». During the conference, a wide range of issues of bilateral and international relations, prospects for overcoming the global economic crisis and the consequences of the ...
On July 14, 2020, Hanns-Seidel Stiftung held an online discussion on the U.S. Presidential Election: what implications will the election results have on relations with Russia and Germany? Experts from RIAC, Hanns-Seidel Stiftung, and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University took part in the workshop.
On July 14, 2020, Hanns-Seidel Stiftung held an online discussion on the U.S. Presidential ...
The parties agreed to prepare and conduct a virtual expert meeting in order to identify possible areas for cooperation
On June 24, 2020, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, held an online working meeting with Theodore Murphy, Director for the Africa Program at the European Council for Foreign Relations. Andrey Kortunov spoke about RIAC Africa project portfolio, the current areas of the Council's research, publications on topics related to Africa, and plans for the future. Theodore Murphy shared...
The online discussion focused on further cooperation and plans for the joint seminar by RIAC and the German Embassy during the period of the German EU Council Presidency
On May 27, 2020, RIAC held an online meeting with the German Embassy in the Russian Federation.
The meeting was attended by Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director of Programs, Natalya Vyakhireva, RIAC Program Manager, Géza Andreas von Geyr, German Ambassador to Russia,...
After the pandemic, a new agenda will emerge in the world, which will be determined by young people who are now under the house arrest of self-isolation. Suddenly, they will have had enough time to think about this agenda
Have you ever thought about the age paradox of coronavirus?
Everyone knows that the virus is at its most dangerous when contracted by elderly people. But in everyday life, it’s not the pensioners who suffer the most from the pandemic, but the youth. Yes, of course, there have...
..., one can expect more from the entity that regulates the shape of cucumbers and the lamination of light bulbs.
Yet, in the event of a global pandemic, the EU relegates responsibility to local or regional administrations. While federal states such as Germany have been just as slow to react, leaving the organizational responsibility with local governments (and only recently nationalizing the purchase of medical equipment), other more unitary states such as France have been quicker to react.
Even the ...
