The meeting covered avoiding a new arms race between Russia and the West
as well as problems of conventional arms control and confidence-building
in Europe
On May 25, RIAC hosted a meeting of the Working Group for the Future of a Greater Europe project. The meeting covered avoiding a new arms race between Russia and the West as well as problems of conventional arms control and confidence-building in Europe.
RIAC was represented by RIAC Director General
Andrey Kortunov
,
Ivan ...
On December 2 Warsaw hosted a meeting of the Working Group for the Building a Greater Europe project. The meeting attendees discussed the results of NATO Summit in Warsaw, Russia-NATO relations, and the prospects for Russia -West relations development in 2017.
RIAC was represented by Ivan TImofeev, Director of Programs, RIAC. The ...
On May 4, 2016 the Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe published its fourth Position Paper “Countering the Threats from the Middle East” on the web-sites of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), the European Leadership Network (ELN), the Polish Institute of International ...
... holds the Chairmanship of the OSCE. Given its authority in the European and world affairs and increased ambitions, the country is expected to achieve tangible results in improving the efficiency of the Organization. Russia is also interested in this.
Greater Europe as an alternative to NATO-centrism and Larger Europe
Project Five. Russia’s accession to the Council of Europe afforded an unprecedented opportunity to build a common democratic Europe of equal peoples and without dividing lines, ...
On March 16, 2016 Ankara hosted a meeting of the Task Force for the “Building Greater Europe” project to discuss the issues of fighting terrorism in the Middle East, various aspects of the immigration crisis, and the problems related to the crisis in Syria.
Russia was represented by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and ...
In the two decades following the end of the Cold War the notion of a Greater Europe, an integrated space stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok, attracted a great deal of support. You only need read Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
2010 commentary in Seuddeutsche Zeitung
to understand just how powerful this idea ...
On December 11, 2015 London hosted a meeting of the Working Group for the Building Greater Europe project.
The meeting discussed prospects for settling the situation in Ukraine as well as threats and challenges emanating from the Middle East. The Group also discussed plans for its work in 2016.
Russia was represented by Igor Ivanov,...
Meeting of the Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe, London, December 11, 2015.
First of all, I’d like to express my gratitude to the ELN for organizing this meeting, and for their commitment to our joint project.
I’m confident that the work of ELN – a truly unique organization ...
Recent developments both in Ukraine and Syria show that international community is making effort to come to terms with Russia on these two stumbling blocks but there is still a lot to be done. European Leadership Network Director
Ian Kearns
has shared his expert opinion on how these issues might develop in future with RIAC.
What has been achieved according to the OSCE mandate in Ukraine?
I think one of the most important things that have been achieved at this particular moment in time appears to...
... Rossotrudnichestvo Deputy Director Alexander Radkov, the event attracted young diplomats from Slovenia, Germany, Poland, Hungary and other countries.
At session “
European Security, New Threats and Challenges
,” Dr. Yevtikhevich spoke on construction of Greater Europe, continental challenges, Russia-West cooperation options, as well as openings for Track 1.5 and Track 2 cooperation.
