Topic: Asia-Pacific

Throughout 2022 the theme of BRICS expansion has taken on notable momentum as China’s BRICS+ initiative has engendered increasing aspirations from some of the largest developing economies to join the BRICS grouping

Given the keen interest of some partners even from unfriendly countries in developing cooperation with Russia, formats similar to the Summit could be successful

The BRICS+ format is back and is at the very center of the discussions surrounding China’s chairmanship in the grouping

Amid the spikes in geopolitical risk witnessed in recent years, there may be a need to explore some of the reserves in international mediation and diplomacy

On April 20, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Korea Foundation (KF) launched a joint project “2021 Next Generation Policy Experts Network”

Participants discussed relevant issues between the Asia-Pacific countries and views of Russia and New Zealand on regional security

On July 25, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Graeme Meehan, Australian Ambassador to Russia, and Jill Collins, Minister Counselor of the Embassy.

In terms of global strategic architecture, China, Russia, and the US are crucial to the world. How can Beijing and Moscow deepen cooperation? How will the 2020 US presidential elections affect Russia-US ties? Global Times (GT) reporter Lu Yuanzhi talked to Andrey Kortunov (Kortunov), director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, on these issues at the sidelines of…

Presentation to the XX April 2019 International Politics Conference

Over the course of the last two years, security risks across Asia have been on the rise. The region’s future is marred with uncertainty that is rooted in the revival of great power competition, and trade wars. The Carnegie Moscow Center and the Russian International Affairs Council organized a discussion about the future of the region.

On March 6, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Takeo Mori, Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, visiting Moscow.

The aggregation of the multiple regional and bilateral treaties into larger mega-blocks may become the key trend in economic integration in the coming years as the “spaghetti bowl” legacy of the past several decades of the emergence of hundreds of regional and bilateral agreements may be increasingly giving way to a more orderly pattern of pan-continental and trans-continental blocks…