... international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises.
The session addressed the issues of strategic stability in the face of the collapse of the former bilateral Russia-the U.S. system of control over strategic arms, the threat of the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and other types of weapons of mass destruction. The possibilities of agreeing on multilateral confidence-building measures in the nuclear sphere ...
Political crises and controversies regarding a number of issues hardly set aside the need to build trust on specific issues, without mentoring, arrogance and sarcasm on either side
The Carnegie Moscow Center’s web site has published an article by my colleague Sabine Fischer: “
From Gas Pipeline to Navalny. What Russia Doesn’t Get About Germany
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Liana Fix:
The Times for a Special Relationship Between Germany and Russia Are Over
She attempts to reflect on the aggravation of relations between Russia and Germany in the context of the Navalny case, and also ...
... Brussels support Moscow’s initiative? Would this kind of move be sabotaged by Kiev or blocked by Washington? Would the West exploit the Russian attempt at compromise, taking it as a sign of weakness and only increasing its own pressure?
The absence of trust — and the fear of exploitation — could encourage Russia to adopt a hard line, even if it is costly. A lot will depend on Brussels and its ability to show autonomous and mature diplomacy.
This does not mean, of course, that Moscow should try to play the United States and the EU against each other — ...
