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Ivan Timofeev, Program Director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), and RIAC Program Coordinator Anna Kuznetsova took part in the meeting of experts “Russia, Latvia, and Europe after the Warsaw NATO Summit” that was held in Riga on October 29, 2016 within the framework of the Riga Conference on international security issues. The event was organized jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic ...
The Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) has posted on its website a report, which is a follow-up publication to the annual Riga Dialogue Conference that took place last May. The list of authors of the publication includes RIAC Program Director ...
On September 14, 2016 the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (Riga) held a public debate “ The West and Russia: Bridges or Walls? ” which was attended by experts, politicians and media representatives. RIAC Program Manager Ekaterina Chimiris represented at the event the Russian expert community. In her speech she noted that, notwithstanding continued ...
On May17, 2016 the Latvian Institute of International Affairs organized an annual Riga Dialogue. The event was supported by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), European Leadership Network (ELN), the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and German Marshal Fund’s Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation. The title of this year’s expert round table was “Riga Dialogue 2016: Building Bridges for Euro-Atlantic Security.” The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) was represented at the conference by its Program Director Ivan Timofeev, who was a panel speaker at the section “Competition for the Hearts and Minds: to the System of Propaganda Control.” “The ...
... since the Soviet times: in 2014 Russia fully met the gas needs of these republics having exported 2.5 billion cubic metres of gas to Lithuania, 1 billion to Latvia and 0.4 billion to Estonia. The BRELL power grid has been supplying power to Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia since 2001. In 2009 the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant which generated up to 70% of the gas consumed in Lithuania and made it possible to export energy was shut down on the EU’s demand. The Baltics finally turned from an energy-excessive ...
... Europe. Part two of the roundtable was devoted to Russia-EU cooperation in the Baltic, with reports made by Sector Head at RAS Situational Analysis Center Sergey Utkin and Swedbank Chief Economist Mārtiņš Kazāks, who covered economic growth of Russia and Latvia, prospects for bilateral cooperation and joint business projects. The event gathered experts from Azerbaijan, Great Britain, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Sweden and Estonia, who outlined issues for further debate, among them interaction in energy and ...
... chosen for particular reasons: it saw fierce battles between the Red Army and the armed forces of the Third Reich, including the Estonian SS-Legion. The core Europe and international organizations choose to ignore this tradition in modern Estonia, while Russia is its chief critic. Just as in Latvia, Estonian SS veterans, however, de facto enjoy the patronage of the local government. In 2013, for example, in response to the traditional criticism by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its Estonian counterparts argued that in Sinimäe ...
... the European Cooperation Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Ivan Soltanovsky , the Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR) Igor Yurgens , heads of the relevant departments of the Russian, Latvian and Swedish foreign ministries, the ambassadors of Estonia, Lithuania and Tajikistan to Russia, and numerous Russian experts. Participants noted that such informal meetings in the one-and-a-half track format were particularly important in the ...
... pan-European Russian-language channel [9] . As a result, the Riga Eastern Partnership Summit is likely to become an event for the sake of appearances only, whose most important decision will be the creation of a pan-European Russian-language channel. Latvia’s ban on Russian pop stars from entering the country became another striking example of its provocative foreign policy. In the summer of 2014, Oleg Gazmanov, Joseph Kobzon and Valeriya were barred for political reasons from entering the country right before the ...
On December 15, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeev received a team of Latvian MFA on a visit to Moscow for official consultations on Latvian EU presidency, Russia-EU cooperation and bilateral relations with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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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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