... power nearby deeply interested in how affairs on the ground played out or the strongest power was the United States from a great distance just hoping an autocratic regime would fall one way or another. In the Maidan revolution this was not the case: Russia was very much interested in the long-term geostrategic consequences of regime change, and it was the blind laziness of Western academia that simply missed the obvious reasons as to why that would be so. Or, again, because of an intellectual presumptuousness ...
On January 9, 2014 a trilateral meeting of experts from Russia, USA and China devoted to the issues of nuclear non-proliferation and security in the Asia-Pacific region and North-East Asia took place in Washington, DC. The meeting was organized by the
Nuclear Threat Initiative
.
During the discussion, participants touched upon the following topics: the threat of nuclear terrorism,...
Program Director Ivan Timofeev delivered a report at a workshop on Russia's role in the Euro-Atlantic security held by the City Council of Turku, Finland, and sponsored by the Alexander Institute of the University of Helsinki and the Atlantic Council of Finland.
The participants included members of the City Council, Russian and Finnish diplomats, as well ...
... momentous. We can see a good sign in the dialog on cyber security launched by presidents of Russia and the United States on the sidelines of the G8 summit. Engagement of other NATO states may as well lay the ground for a new dimension of the Euro-Atlantic security. The Russia-NATO Council is definitely a major factor in Moscow's partnership with NATO. The Council is not perfect; it has its limitations and defects. But it provides a forum for continuous and systemic communication. Changes can be initiated by enthusiasts ...
... we consider the importance of the agreements reached by the Big Three, about the post-war world order, and the possibility of new world wars with Major General
Evgeny G. Nikitenko
, formerly first deputy chief of the Military Science Division of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, and with
Georgy A. Kumanev
, RAS Full Member, director of the Military History Centre at the Institute for Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, and chairman of the RAS Military Science Council.
Evgeny ...
