... list of Russia’s steps towards the West.
In a sense, the Sochi Speech is similar to that of Munich. In it, the President shows the very same concern for the future of the planet, the very same disappointment with our Western partners. But to call Vladimir Putin’s speech in Sochi “Munich 2” would be an oversimplification – after all, seven-and-a-half years have passed since then. We live in a completely different world now. A number of trends that only started to appear ...
... on the name of the group the United States coalition is fighting. Obama calls it “ISIL”. The New York Times and USA Today call it “ISIS.” Others just call it “IS.”
Is’s all part of what an essay by Brookings,... ... Obama’s Ukraine sanctions) and has made France a more active part of the U.S.-led alliance to rein in ISIS.
President Vladimir Putin, regardless of his policies, is a nationalist and a strong leader. The global governance movement does not like ...
RIAC Experts comment
President Obama has completed his Asian tour and President Putin has visited China. What conclusions can be drawn from the results of these events?
Below are comments by Gleb Ivashentsov, Deputy Director of the Russian Centre for APEC Studies; Dmitry Mosyakov, Head of the Centre for the Study of South East Asia, Australia and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladimir Petrovsky, Public Relations Secretary at the Institute for...
... product known as smart power- sending the entire process back to square one.
Billions of dollars are spent annually, and thousands of jobs are created in government and the private sector by all major actors. Yet there seems to be an inability to act ... ... of anomie and disconnectedness in the influential American journal Foreign Policy. An article calling for Russian president Vladimir Putin to be "kicked off the island" turns a serious publication into a cafe society echo chamber for a foreign ...
... president Obama’s first term is on the record saying that Russia’s presence in Crimea is effectively a fait accompli.
Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger has urged the international community not to assign blame to Russian president Vladimir Putin and recommends that more negotiations over the future of Ukraine are required to achieve a tenable solution.
Stern, one of Germany’s leading print and online media platforms, has published a poll indicating that 77 percent of those ...
Although the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has authorized writing off 90% of Cuba’s $32 billion debt Kremlin policy toward the Castro regime is characterized ... ... Brazilian air force has been airlifting the Cubans to Brazil as if it was the Berlin Airlift.
While this is happening, thousands of immigrants, from Haiti, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other nations both legal and undocumented, have been filtering into ...
Cold War stereotypes prevent the building of a new system of international links
On August 9, Russian foreign and defense ministers met their U.S. counterparts in Washington the day after President Obama had cancelled his September visit to Russia. American hawks were triumphant, as were Moscow’s hawks and some like-minded figures in Europe – all rubbing their hands over yet another slip up in the Russia-U.S. relationship. Cold War stereotypes are proving really hard to kill - poisoning...
.... It should also be borne in mind that according to SIPRI Russia and the U.S. account for 16.2 thousand out of total 17.3 thousand nuclear warheads existing in the world
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. It means that the share of France (300 nuclear warheads), UK (225), China ... ...
The new agenda in the Russia-US relations has been set but has not started to be implemented yet. Therefore, the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama this September will play a key role. If the two presidents agree to begin negotiations on economic ...
... International Affairs Council (RIAC) expresses its deep satisfaction with the outcome of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama, held on June 18 in Los Cabos (Mexico).
The joint statement issued following the ... ... regime. If someone believes that there will be an opportunity to play on the contradictions in the approaches of Russia and the USA to non-proliferation, this will not happen.
The coincidence of Russian and U.S. positions on sensitive issues such as combating ...