... editorial team recently sat down with
Ian Bond
, Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform. Bond is an expert in Russia and the former Soviet Union, European foreign policy, as well as Europe/Asia relations and US foreign policy. In this interview,... ... Refugees (UNHCR), that could be extremely problematic and make it very difficult for the EU to continue cooperating with Turkey on migration and refugee issues. So there will be a lot of concern about that and the regional destabilization it might cause. And,...
... be mainly determined by the lack of jobs and the low wages in Ukraine, combined with the means used by some European countries (particularly several states of Central and Eastern Europe) to attract Ukrainian labor resources (including illegal labor migration through the visa-free regime with the European Union). The number of Ukrainian people in Russia is still rather impressive. Those who can find accommodation and a job in Russia will still prefer to remain in emigration due to the apparent discrepancy in the standard of living and the far more stable domestic situation in Russia (the fact ...
... Rome hosted a seminar on challenges posed by the unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, and opportunities for cooperation between the EU and Russia to address them, organized jointly by Russian International Affairs Council,
Delegation of the European Union to Russia
, and
Istituto Affari Internazionali
(IAI).
The following issues were discussed in the course of the event: migration in Russia and the EU, opportunities for Russia-EU interaction in the area of migration, and the prospects for the sharing experience.
Experts from Russia and the EU, the permanent members of the group, as well as experts invited to speak on ...
... communities, professional administrators and RIAC members.
Plenary session speakers included Vladimir Malakhov, Director of the Center for Theoretical and Applied Political Science at RANEPA; Sven-Olov Carlsson, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia; Olga Kirillova, Head of the General Administration for Migration Issues at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation; Oleg Malginov, Director of the Department for Relations with Compatriots Abroad at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; and Magne Barth, Head of the ...
... As a result, Europe has found itself split in two under pressure of incoming refugees from Africa and the Middle East. Voices advocating help for those who are fleeing war are increasingly eclipsed by popularity-seeking politicians demanding a cap on migration and auguring the onset of chaos and terror for Europe.
Patrick Taran:
Migration, Globalization and Economic Viability: Challenges and Opportunities for Russia & Eurasia
This securitization of migration is equally a feature of Russia. Natives of Central Asia were involved in virtually every underground terrorist cell, every terrorist attack staged or prevented in the country over the past few years. In ...
... factors of migrants’ vulnerability, key mechanisms and tools to assist migrants, the necessity of “humanizing” migration and of individualized approach to migrants’ problems.
The speakers at the plenary session of the Conference included: RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev;
Head
of the
Delegation
of the
European Union
to the
Russian
Federation Ambassador
Vygaudas Ušackas;
UNHCR Representative in the Russian Federation Vladimir Tsyurko, Head ...
... military, mostly from the EU member countries.
Alexey Gromyko, RIAC member and Director of the RAS Institute of Europe, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, took part in the work of the Dahrendorf Symposium and addressed the meeting.
Programme
European Union in the World 2025 – Scenarios for External Relations
... confidently, over-confidently even, of the ‘European’ values as the framework for dialogue between the EU and Russia. Today, the once orderlyframework is crumbling before our eyes amidst fierce political debate and bitter quarrels within the European Union.
Russia cannot keep aloof when such a discussion is taking place. Our countryis among active participants in the global migration processes, which has been the case throughout a larger part of our history; in the 19th century alone, about five million people immigrated to Russia. In this respect, the Soviet period, when international migration was brought to minimum numbers ...
... 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) held an
international conference
on the problems of migration in the modern world. At the conference, Russian and international experts discussed the numerous aspects of migration and the impact it has on governments. Particular attention was paid to the ongoing migrant crisis in the European Union.
Leading figures in migration research shared their expert opinions on the subject and the prospects for its development: Mathias Czaika, Senior Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, Oxford University; Marta Jaroszewicz,...
Working Paper #12 / 2014
This working paper was prepared as part of the Russian International Affairs Council’s project International Migration Processes: Trends, Challenges and Prospects. Whereas Europe has dealt with mass influxes of immigrants since the 1950s, Russia only encountered this phenomenon relatively recently. Europe’s experience with migrant integration, which will be ...
