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On April 15, 2026, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), in cooperation with the Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India), held a roundtable titled “The Middle East Crisis: Implications for Russia and India”

Dmitriy Trenin: Trump’s announcement of a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, following the failure of the first round of negotiations, amounted to a case of complete strategic incoherence

“Cold Peace” with Iran and Economic Diversification

Dmitri Trenin: The new leadership will likely engage in less confrontation with the Brussels bureaucracy, but Hungary’s “sovereigntist” course can largely be expected to remain unchanged

Locking the Market Before It Opens: The U.S. Strategy to Strand the Global South

Dmitriy Trenin: Eighty years after the end of the World War II, the main threat of an armed conflict once again emanates for us from Europe

This time, the stakes could not be higher: Vietnam’s energy security, a reset in the strategic partnership with Moscow and Russia’s prospects to cement its presence in Southeast Asia

On April 8, 2026, the Moscow Economic Forum hosted a plenary discussion, “Russia and the World After Transformation: New Strategies”

It is difficult to expect the “golden age” promised by Trump to emerge from the upcoming negotiations

On April 6, 2026, a joint roundtable of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Institute for International Studies (IMI) at MGIMO University was held on “The Evolution of Post-Soviet States in the Context of the Transformation of the World Order”

RIAC President Dmitriy Trenin, speaks in an interview on Russia’s path in a changing world

On April 1, 2026, a roundtable organized by several Arab embassies took place in Moscow, bringing together Russian political and academic figures