Russians have become skeptical about a truly global order. At best, interactions with ... ... the United States and Europe will be competitive and tense. Russia will not invade NATO territory unprovoked, but incidents along the new front line, stretching from the... ... more attention to regional and subregional compacts: the BRICS group, the SCO, the EEU the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and others. Of the remaining...
Policy Brief #5, 2016
There are more issues that divide Russia and the EU than that unite them. Although both sides support the fundamentals of the current world-order (especially when ... ... the feasibility of technical cooperation in the absence of political convergence, and on what EU – Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) cooperation could look like. While the EU and Russia feel the need to cooperate on a settlement in Ukraine, on stabilisation ...
On February 9, 2016, the Russian International Affairs Council in partnership with the Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation hosted ... ... Council, its bodies and structures, international organizations of the United Nations family is a matter of fact and self explanatory. In contrast, the crucial nature of the relationship with European and Euro-Atlantic organizations after all the changes ...
In a thought-provoking paper, “How to talk with Russia?”, Kadri Liik singles out three types of Russian analysts: “Many experts undoubtedly serve as spokespersons ... ... compromise between the Soviet bloc and the West, and it served both sides well in the final stages of the Cold War. Neither NATO, nor the European Union ever had a majority of members in this institution. In fact, the OSCE was the first truly pan-European ...
After Russia’s annexation of Crimea, many policymakers in Europe concluded that it had ... ... Photos
Igor Ivanov:
A Diagnosis from Munich
This is the question that now plagues both NATO and the EU. While in the NATO context the dangers of miscommunication are sometimes... ... of being misunderstood by Russia in the same way the reset was misunderstood. The EU-EEU cooperation especially has its natural limits can cannot be ignored. For the time...
Differences between Russia and Europe have been discussed at length. The fact that these differences exist has taken root in political ideology and ... ... are determined by supranational institutions. "Post-modern" countries are grouped into two superstructures — NATO and the EU – which project formidable military and economic power.
This difference strongly affects relations between ...
... attitude obviously showcases the European Union’s unwillingness to build equitable relationships with Belarus and the EEU. A delegation of the U.S. Department of State, which visited Belarus in November,
demanded
that Minsk should make “positive ... ... and political status, which de facto means Belarus’s withdrawal from the CSTO. In these conditions, it is important for Russia to have Belarus, its military and economic ally, pursue a predictable foreign policy.
Amid the growing military presence of NATO in Eastern Europe, Moscow will have to further strengthen the western borders of the CSTO.
The traditional argument of numerous ...
... the 20th Annual International Conference of the Baltic Forum “The US, the EU and Russia – the New Reality”, 12 September 2015, Riga, Latvia
Speech at the 20th... ... the rest of Europe. Documents were signed on cooperation with the European Union and NATO and Russia joined the Council of Europe. In the early 21st century, the outlines... ... Moscow should invest considerable political capital in developing the mechanisms of EEU, SCO and other multilateral structures of Greater Eurasia. This is especially true...
