... indicate India’s desire to take a more proactive position in European affairs, or does it show how India’s policy of strategic autonomy has reached its limits following Modi’s warm reception in Moscow on June 8?
Alexey Kupriyanov:
New Agenda of Russia-India Relations
Growing Interest in Peace
Since early 2024, right up to Ukraine’s offensive in Kursk in early August of this year, Moscow had—or as some argue, still has—the upper hand in the situation in Ukraine. In turn, this weakened ...
... History of Central and Southeast Europe of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies
Abstracts
Ekaterina Entina
The appointment of the new government in Serbia is not expected to bring any surprises. It is likely to be formed as in previous years, with both pro-Russian and pro-Western politicians.
France does not seek to curb the sway of the U.S. in the Balkans or in Europe but aims to increase its own influence. Paris needs to make up for the loss of face it suffered from Russia in the Middle East and in Africa....
... recent
visit
of Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan showed, the movement in this direction has not stopped.
Second, while the focus of geopolitical confrontation between the West (the U.S. and its EU allies) and Russia has shifted from the Caucasus to the Middle East and Ukraine since 2014-2015, this region remains among the most turbulent in the post-Soviet space.
In the last four years alone, the status quo has changed twice in this part of Eurasia. As a result ...
The latest wave of sanctions does not bring qualitative changes—their impact on the Russian economy and its relations with foreign partners is unlikely to be fundamental
Amid the second anniversary of the start of the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine, a number of Western countries and associations launched a new set of sanctions ...
... clearly discriminatory and are not characteristic of a modern democratic society.
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. Voinikov V.V. Restrictions on the Entry of Russian Citizens to EU Member States: Political and Legal Aspects.
Contemporary Europe,
2023, No. 3, p. 20-32 DOI: 10.31857/S0201708323030026
... ... restrictive measures as an area of crime that meets the criteria specified in Article 83(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. OJ L 308, 29.11.2022, p. 18–21
If the practice becomes widespread, another nail will be driven into the coffin of human ties between Russia and the EU
In Russia, the new European Commission (EC) rules on the import of sanctioned goods by Russian citizens has caused quite a stir.
The EU sanctions policy against Russia includes a wide range of measures. These include blocking financial ...
... "luxury goods" or other less technologically advanced manufactured goods. But this practice may appear in the future.
The European Union is also introducing instruments into its law that allow the application of similar sanctions. For example, paragraph ... ... Council to impose blocking sanctions against any individuals or legal entities involved in
circumventing sanctions against Russia.
There is no mass practice comparable to the American one yet, but the mechanism itself already exists. In addition, the ...
... Western markets, the search for alternative suppliers in friendly countries, as well as reliable mechanisms for financial transactions that are not related to the US dollar or other Western currencies
The significant number of sanctions against Russia has naturally led to an increase in the number of attempts to circumvent them. If before the start of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine (SMO) in February 2022, investigations into violations of sanctions regimes against Russia were a rather ...
In July 2023, two notable international summits took place: the European Union-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-CELAC) Summit and the Africa-Russia Summit. Below are some impressions to assess to compare the implications of both events. A comparative analysis of the final declarations of both summits yields the following impressions:
Although the EU-CELAC Summit had a relatively positive outcome ...
The main intrigue of the package was restrictive measures against foreign countries and organisations that interact with Russia
The European Union has introduced its
eleventh package of sanctions against Russia
. The main intrigue of the package was restrictive measures against foreign countries and organisations that interact with Russia. It pertains to cooperation in those areas ...