It is necessary to maintain the wide multilateral format of the CIS and to introduce new effective impulses towards cooperation
Yulia Nikitina:
The Post-Soviet Space in 2017
The development of cooperation within the CIS is an objective necessity for all member states of the Commonwealth. Notwithstanding the intensification of integration processes in the post-Soviet space, discussions on whether the CIS has exhausted its potential are still underway. RIAC experts share their insights into the...
A Region Especially Important for Russia
Covering the independent Transcaucasian states and the Russian Transcaucasian republics, the Greater Caucasus today appears to be one of the most turbulent post-Soviet regions. It was the Greater Caucasus that set the precedent of border-change in August 2008 among the former countries of the USSR. Because of the region’s global importance as caused by the involvement of such key international actors as the United States and the European Union, the time...
On March 31, 2014 RIAC held a presentation of a working paper "
Russian-Georgian Relations: in Search of New Ways for Development
", a joint product of RIAC and Georgian International Center of Conflicts and Negotiations (ICCN) that offers an analysis of the Russia-Georgia dialogue normalization process and recommendations aimed to assist building an effective framework for bilateral interaction.
The event was opened by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, after which ICCN Executive Director...