... role of the Visegrad countries in the CEE policies of the European Union. Director of RAS Institute for European Studies Alexey Gromyko underlined the importance of the Visegrad Group for development of its member states and cooperation of Russia with Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Ambassador Priputen summed up the results of the Slovak presidency in the Visegrad Group.
Roundtable "The Visegrad Europe and Russia Today"
There has been a huge political scandal in Poland. Nine top officials, including the Marshal of the Sejm, Radosław Sikorski, have all resigned their posts. Apparently different people will soon be determining the country’s policy. And relations with Russia might improve, although the opposite ...
Bronislaw Komorowski has lost the presidential election in Poland, where there are still clear divisions between the “conservative East” and the “progressive West.” Incoming President Andrzej Duda has managed to run the distance from being a little-known bureaucrat and European Parliament ...
... up: in the 1960s, the per capita GDP in Czechoslovakia amounted to 60–65% of the Austrian, whereas in 1991, after the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops,
it fell to virtually 16%
. This fact is quite obvious: Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland developed more slowly than Austria. At the same time, the state of affairs with respect to the development of the countries of Central-Eastern Europe before and after the socialist period deserves separate attention.
Table 1.
per capita GDP (Austria ...
On March 6, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and MGIMO-University Pro-Rector Artyom Malgin, a RIAC member, visited Warsaw to speak at international conference "Poland-Russia: Balance Sheet 2014."
Organized by
Center for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding
, the event was a follow-up to the Russian-polish discussion during the February 26 seminar-situational analysis "East European Crisis through ...
... crisis on these relations between the two countries loomed large. Below
Stanislav Secrieru
, Senior Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and
Anatoly Leirikh
, Chairman of the Business Council for Cooperation with Poland, share their thoughts on the situation.
What has been the impact of anti-Russian sanctions on relations between Russia and Poland?
Stanislav Secrieru:
To answer that question, we have to talk about more than the impact of the sanctions themselves ...
... political, economic and humanitarian fields.
The meeting was opened by RIAC Director General Andrei Kortunov and Director of PISM Marcin Zaborowski.
The seminar’s first session was devoted to political and security cooperation between Russia and Poland. Presentations were made by Artyom Malgin, RIAC member and Vice-Rector for General Matters of MGIMO University, and Marcin Terlikowski, leader of the PISM European Security and Defence Economics Project. The seminar discussed Russian and Polish ...
Following the statements of Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna on the RMF FM radio station, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Grigory Karasin said
it was "a disgrace to Poland's diplomatic service" for the Polish Foreign Minister to insist on his interpretation of Russia's role in World War II and insinuate about the format for celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Victory Day by disputing the grounds for Moscow ...
RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev visited Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, where he met Vice-Rector for Research and International Cooperation Jacek Witkos to present RIAC’s projects dealing with internationalization of higher education institutions. The sides have outlined cooperation in exchanging research materials,...
... and Alexei Malashenko, member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Center met Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Polish Ambassador to Russia, Adam Eberhardt, Deputy Director of the Warsaw Centre for Eastern Studies, and representatives of Poland's Embassy in Moscow.
The sides focused on European security, possible development of Russia-EU relations in the context of Ukraine and European Union leadership reshuffle, Russia-Poland dialogue, as well as general issues of global politics.
