... institutions, i.e. OSCE, European Union, Council of Europe, etc. through the prism of Ukraine crisis and overall deterioration of the Russia-West relationship.
Among other things, Dr. Ivanov and Dr. Kortunov presented RIAC's policy paper on the future of the OSCE ... ... of the U.S.A. and SIPRI, Sweden.
Dr. Ivanov also met Vice Chair-Designate of the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Ellen Tauscher to discuss cooperation of the two think tanks in 2015 and in the next years.
... came from
Alexander Grushko
, Permanent Representative to NATO;
Alexander Dzasokhov
, Deputy Chairman of Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO and RIAC Member; Ambassador-at-Large
Anvar Azimov
and others.
The speakers agreed that the OSCE ... ... crises and should remain an actor within practical politics. The "Helsinki+40" project is a platform for discussing international security and scenarios for building a new security architecture.
The seminar was part of the
OSCE PA project
timed ...
... region may well become the next hot spot
For many months, the conflict in Ukraine and related sanctions have remained the key issue discussed by politicians, diplomats and journalists.
Alexei Fenenko
, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of International Security Problems, shares his views on the impact of the sanctions on Russia and the potential resolution of the situation in eastern Ukraine as well as offers his vision on the most potentially dangerous conflict for Russia.
Today the whole world is talking about the anti-Russian sanctions. Do you believe that sanctions ...
Interview with Andrei Zagorski
In the run-up to the international seminar “Helsinki +40: Prospects for strengthening the OSCE”, which will be held by the Russian International Affairs Council, we talked to Professor
Andrei Zagorski
of MGIMO University, head of department at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and RIAC expert, about the role of ...
The first in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 series of international seminars aimed at fomenting reform of the OSCE takes place this Thursday, 25 September, in Moscow.
The event, hosted by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), will bring together OSCE parliamentary leaders, top Russian lawmakers, OSCE experts and academicians to evaluate the Organization's past and chart lines of action to ensure its continued effectiveness.
Titled ...
... particular field. That “sine qua non” requirement on the part of the West, as a matter of principle hotly disputed by the socialists, developed into a healthy and frank discussion on each other’s merits on the road to European and international security. While diplomatic civility was never abandoned, the sometimes acrimonious recrimination allowed participants to show clearly and without veils what each of them considered to be the state of play and the necessary measures to improve ...
... Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, to discuss the potential of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in resolving problems of regional security, its role in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of ISAF, the Silk Way project initiated by China, Russia's future SCO presidency and many other issues.
Your Excellency, in your article "
The SCO as the Growing Ruler of the Heartland: How to Bring Eurasia's Most Promising Organization to a New High
", you paint the future of the SCO in fairly ...
On July 31, 2014, websites of the Russian International Affairs Council,
European Leadership Network
,
Polish Institute of International Affairs
and
International Strategic Research Organization in Ankara
placed the
statement of Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe
on mechanisms ...
... Institute for European Studies; Andrey Zagorsky, Professor of the Chair for International Relations and Foreign Policy at MGIMO-University; Sergey Rogov, RAS Member and Director of RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies; Dmitry Danilov, Head of International Security Department at RAS Institute for European Studies; Sergey Utkin, Director of Center for Strategic Assessments at RAS Center for Situational Analysis, other representatives of Russian Foreign Ministry and Federation Council, and key experts.
Workshop "Helsinki+40: the Past, the Present and the Future"
... none of the numerous security providing organizations was capable of intervening at early stages of the crisis, no confidence building measures proved to be efficient. The crisis was managed (or mismanaged) through a chain of telephone calls between Russian, European and US leaders and sporadic meetings of their respective foreign ministers. It took a couple of months to convene the Geneva meeting on Ukraine, and the outcome of the meeting was not a detailed Roadmap, but a very short and ambiguous ...
