... “mediating” role of the European Union’s governing bodies, with all their mechanisms and channels of influence, will continue to grow. This will be equally true of the Baltic Sea Region countries.
Moscow, for its part, continues to regard the European Union as a key strategic foreign economic partner, despite the Russian economy’s “pivot to the east” and the Western sanctions. This is a given for the preservation of the scale and balance of foreign economic cooperation in Russia’s interests. The emphases made in Russian official statements indicate that there ...
Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), thinks that greater cooperation between ... ... anti-terrorist coalition like the one that they had during the Second World War.
3) The European Union (EU) has enforced economic sanctions against Russia because of the conflict... ... countries and Russia?
A.K.:
The sanctions did have a serious negative impact on the Russian economy. However, they failed to change the Russian position in Ukraine or to erode...
... reached in December 2010 on establishing the Eurasian Economic Union (EEC) in the Common Economic Space of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, Alexander Lukashenko together with the Russian and Kazakh leaders welcomed the new integration project. But after the ... ... foreign markets.
Alexei Dzermant:
Belarus views the EEU as an economic union that can survive global turbulence. The Belarusian economy is open and export-oriented, so the EEU is expected to offer opportunities for equal access to markets, for cooperation,...
On 12 October 2015, the RIAC and the Luxembourg Embassy held a seminar devoted to relations between Russia and the EU. Below, General Director in the Russian Federation of the Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Russia Oleg ... ...
Сompanies have had to adapt, to change the system for supply of parts that used to be brought from Europe.
Russia and Germany. Economy and
sanctions 2014-2015
The emerging situation is negative but stable and there is a growing sense that one has to work ...
... their relationship; however, the talks were
postponed
, because the Council of the European Union did not adopt a corresponding negotiating mandate.
Armenia mostly regards... ... the integration body, what sort of changes have taken place in the country’s economy immediately after it acceded to the EEU, and what possibilities the EEU member... ... accession to the EEU as a means to ensure a free movement of goods, services, and labor. Russia’s leading role in Armenia’s trade turnover also tipped the scale...
..., and the beginning of military operations in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions coupled with Crimea’s reunification with Russia only exacerbated it.
Crimea and Donbass: The price paid
In purely economic terms, the impact of Crimea’s secession ... ... – only 0.8% of GDP.
The Luhansk and Donetsk regions, also known as Donbass, are much more important for Ukraine’s economy. In 2012 the Donetsk region had the highest per capita GDP, €20,700, while the corresponding figure for Luhansk varied ...
Kvashnin Yuri (Ph.D in History)
(Head, European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN, RIAC Expert)
Today the Russian-Greek economic relations are affected by a triple crisis: the ongoing crisis in Greece, the crisis in Russian–EU relations and Russia's economic hardships.
As for the first one, at the beginning of this year Greece's economic ...
... Integration Research Department at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Europe and Russian International Affairs Council expert
Olga Potemkina
offers her thoughts on... ... strengthening economic growth, creating new jobs and improving the competitiveness of the EU economy. The heads of state and government will have to approve the Annual Growth Survey... ... the Ebola virus will be important item on the agenda. As of early December 2014, the European Union had invested €1.1 billion to combat the virus, making it the largest...
... policy of systematic gas price reduction for EU member-states. There are indications that, in order to strengthen its position Russia, it might choose to pursue a flexible pricing policy on a larger scale, which neither the U.S., nor the Maghreb, nor Iran can afford. Therefore, even if the European Union were to enact all phases of the three-stage sanctions roadmap, they would affect certain categories of goods and ... ... is the global, latent change in zones of economic influence. The world has reached its historic peak in terms of the market economy’s territorial distribution, but development models are becoming increasingly polar. Therefore, the need to build ...
