... enshrined in law, their lifting will be much more difficult. Their use as a bargaining tool will depreciate. However, in Moscow, apparently, they do not believe in the prospect of any agreements anyway, at least in the near future.
The situation with China is different. Between January 2019 and April 2023, there have been more legislative initiatives on sanctions against China than against Russia—103 versus 99 (again, only those bills that propose specific restrictive measures are counted). Four ...
... Research.
The Russian side was represented at the meeting by Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director General; Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director; Alexandra Perminova, Research Fellow at the Center for World Policy and Strategic Analysis, RAS Institute of China and Contemporary Asia.
The experts discussed topical issues in Russia-China relations. The meeting was held behind closed doors.
... national states willing to strengthen their digital borders and to protect their sovereignty
The mounting propensity towards conflict in the digital realm makes national states willing to strengthen their digital borders and to protect their sovereignty. China is the leader and pioneer in this area, while Russia has also pursued a policy of digital sovereignty for quite some time. After the start of the special military operation, this policy received an additional impetus — in particular, a number ...
Five questions regarding China-Russia relations and Chinese policy through the prism of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
One unexpected outcome of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is that China-Russia relations have taken center stage in global affairs. Even though China is not a party ...
... – there is a danger of going completely off-topic. But the range of issues resonates, at least in part, with what has always been there.
Trends in the Arab World, and in Arab relations with Iran, offer hope for normalization. The roles of Russia and China – not leading, but supporting – could be a catalyst for positive trends. The story of the South Caucasus is far from over and promises much human drama, but the deadlock it has been in for so long is a thing of the past. And so it follows that ...
... of free movement of individuals and goods— all this, unthinkable only recently, amounts to a de facto blockade.
Ivan Timofeev:
A State as Civilisation and Political Theory
Yet, the Western effort to completely isolate Russia has fallen far short. China and India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and South Africa, along with many others, have refused to join the U.S.-led sanctions coalition—no matter how some of them vote at the UN General Assembly. Moreover,...
... the United States and the USSR, started. This order was maintained by their mutual nuclear deterrence in a politically and ideologically pided world. As a result of the efforts or with the help of the Soviet Union, in the countries of Eastern Europe, China and several other states, Communists parties came to power, and the global socialist system emerged. In the rest of the world, where the sole political, ideological, military and economic leadership of the United States was established, market relations ...
Working Paper No. 74 / 2023
Working Paper No. 74 / 2023
The working paper seeks to analyze constitutive voting patterns of Sub-Saharan states of Africa at the UN General Assembly. The methodology proposed in this paper offers an opportunity to explore this issue topic-wise as well as in a broader sense. The paper considers a number of indicators that help assess the involvement of the continent’s different countries in the voting processes, builds on the various types of strategic behavior in the...
On May 24, 2023, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a closed meeting of the Council's leadership and experts with representatives of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
On May 24, 2023, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a closed meeting of the Council's leadership and experts with representatives of China Institute of Contemporary International ...
... ethnic composition, the Central Asian region cannot serve as a jumping-off point for the formation of states or their unions that would pose a danger to neighbouring powers. Here, first and foremost, we are talking about the interests of Russia and China, connected with the region by long common borders on both sides, where ethnically and religiously related people often live. Theoretically, the Central Asian countries could be considered by the West as an excellent territorial base for launching ...
