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... (IFES RAS), IMEMO RAS, Russian State University for the Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) and RAS Institute of Oriental Studies. The discussion touched upon topical issues such as the WTO crisis, Russia's role in Asia Pacific, and the possibility of creating a free trade zone between Japan, South Korea, and China.
Interview with Natalya Stapran, Alexander Gabuyev, Sergey Luzyanin and Won Dong Cho The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal was sealed on 5 October 2015. Moscow’s stance on the TPP has not been defined yet. The Russian International Affairs Council has asked Natalya Stapran , Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; Alexander Gabuyev , ...
The latest edition of the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue conference that took place in Singapore on May 29–31, 2015, showed that the problem of the South China Sea, a little-known, distant and exotic land to Russians, is coming to the fore in both regional and world politics. As a matter of fact, the South China Sea is becoming one of the most important points of tension in the world, perhaps on a level comparable to that of the Persian Gulf. The situation ...
On May 29, 2015, RIAC and the RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies held an International Conference entitled “Russia and China: a New Partnership in a Changing World.” The future of Russian-Chinese relations was at the heart of plenary sessions, expert debates and general discussions by participants. Vladimir Portyakov , Deputy Director of the RAS Institute ...
... from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In the evening of 7 August 2014, Tokyo was struck by a happy surprise: Japan was exempted from Russia’s countermeasures designed in response to Western sanctions. The Jiji Press –a major Japanese media with global networks– immediately reported on its headline that “日本は制裁対象外＝欧米の青果など禁輸,...
... Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations. The downing of the Malaysian MH17 has shaken the whole world. The West seized this moment to impose further sanctions on Russia, although a good number of professional analysts worldwide are warning for making a hasty conclusion. Anthony Cordesman, an expert at the leading American think-tank Center for Strategic and International Affairs, rightly stressed on 18 July that ...
... Shinbun reported on August 9 that the negotiation over the territorial dispute settlement would be reopened on 19 August in Moscow, where Foreign Counselor[1] Shinsuke Sugiyama of Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Igor Vladimirovich Morgulov of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are said to engage in a series of new negotiation rounds.[2] However, the course of negotiation remains undetermined and it is not clear when and how the negotiating parties can at last agree to the mutually acceptable ...
The Soviet Union did not lose the Cold War; it was the United States who lost the Soviet Union. After the Soviet disintegration, it was America who felt a huge hole of nostalgia in her heart while the U.S. remained an important global power to new Russia. Historically, the U.S. has built its unprecedented prosperity through strategically countering its prime enemy of each time; first it was the British Empire, then the Soviet Union after the World War II, and today the honorable seat of recognition ...
The demise of the Cold War urged us to grow our brain out of the simplified friend-foe dichotomy. Reintegrating herself into an increasingly globalized world of the 21st century, Russia as well as any other country cannot think in an outdated framework of “you are either with us or against us.” Yet, we also must not dismiss the fact that there is a substantial difference between friendship and best-friendship. Therefore,...
... Party (LDP) have successfully regain full control over the upper and lower congresses of Japan in July 2013; now they are equipped with an ever-mightier momentum and democratic mandate to push forward agendas of the most pressing national importance. In Russia as well as abroad, the result of Abe’s landslide winning provoked a variety of discussions; yet, a few international analyses have outlined how the election was fought and what were the major casting points. Based on a joint research summary ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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