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Brazilian League for a Bear and a Panda

Russia and China in the Brazilian Arms Market In recent years, Latin American countries have drastically altered their military doctrines, most of them now willing to significantly diversify their military hardware suppliers and drop their absolute dependence on the United States and Europe. Their military budgets ...

13.04.2015

A Panda and a Bear in the Caribbean

Russia and China in the Latin American Arms Market. Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua At Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation (MTC) session with Foreign States on January 27, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin encouraged those present to seek out new markets, in particular ...

30.03.2015

RIAC's Report on Russia-Mexico Relations Presented at Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum

... Makhmutov and Ambassador Valery Morozov, a RIAC expert, took part in the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum to present RIAC's report " Russia-Mexico Relations: Traditional Basics and Imperatives for Renovation " at the session on Russia's relations with Latin America. The event was attended by heads of Latin American missions including those from the Pacific Alliance, as well as members of the Krasnoyarsk Area administration, business community and civil society engaged in promotion of Russia's interests ...

04.03.2015

RIAC Expert Valery Morozov at Siberian Federal University

On February 26, 2015, Ambassador Valery Morozov, a RIAC Expert, visited the Siberian Federal University as part of the cooperation program between the two institutions to deliver a lecture on the current role of Latin America, prospects for its cooperation with Russia, political and economic specifics of Latin American countries, as well as their relations with the United States, EU and China with the focus on the rise of new regional integration associations....

27.02.2015

The Pacific Alliance: the New Star among Integration Groupings

The Pacific Alliance project has attracted close attention from governments and economists worldwide. Assessments of its orientation and activities are quite ambiguous. A number of politicians and public figures in Latin America (LA) have taken the news of the establishment of the Alliance with caution, seeing it as an avenue for the promotion of US policy in the region and an antagonist to Mercosur. How correct are these views? What are the opportunities for the ...

10.02.2015

Latin American Universities: Approaching Discovery?

Latin Americans Respond to the Challenge As was the case with the American continent before 1492, today, Latin American universities are largely terra incognita for most of the world. Known mostly to scholars from the same continent and a slim number ...

23.12.2014

А.Shchetinin: Russia — Mexico. We Have to Be Much More Realistic in Our Judgments

Speech at the Roundtable “Russia and Pacific Alliance: Opportunities for Expanded Cooperation” Speech by Alexander Shchetinin, Director of the Latin American Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, at the Roundtable “Russia and Pacific Alliance: Opportunities for Expanded Cooperation”, RIAC, September 30, 2014. Dear Igor Sergeevich, Your Excellency and my friend Ruben Beltran ...

15.10.2014

Russia – Mexico – Peru – Chile: bright future ahead?

... 125 years of bilateral relations. So, I think if we look at the panorama of what is in the future, we are on the way of strengthening our relations right now. Mexico, for instance, is the 14th exporter in the world. One third of all the exports from Latin America come from Mexico. So there is visible obstacle why the economic situation should not be improving in that direction. In the political area, we have a great number of coincidences in the multilateral and national dialogues. So, I guess, what ...

09.10.2014

Roundtable on Russia-Pacific Alliance Relationship

... roundtable "Russia and Pacific Alliance: Opportunities for Expanded Cooperation" which focused on the structure and goals of the Alliance, as well as on the integration processes. The event was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov; Latin American ambassadors in Moscow, among them Ruben Beltran of Mexico, Gustavo Otero of Peru, Jaime Giron of Colombia and Juan Eduardo Eguiguren of Chile; Director of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies Vladimir Davydov; Valery Morozov, Russian ...

01.10.2014
 

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