... Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, or AIIB, for example), Washington could not under any circumstances afford to lose face by conceding to Putin.
AP / Sergei Chuzavkov
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Kiev
before heading to the summit in Germany
This is why a comparison between the following events is intriguing. On the one hand, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and a host of public officials and business representatives in Germany have spoken about the need to bring Russia back to the G8. There ...
... which took over 27 million Soviet lives. So, what exactly does May 8 mean to today’s Germans whose grandfathers fought in what we here in Russia consider enemy trenches?
Despite the 70-year gap between now and 1945, the perception of May 8 in Germany is somewhat shaded, for numerous historical reasons. On the one hand, for over 40 years of the existence of the two German states, as their two different systems were engaged in fierce information warfare, the perception of this victory over National ...
This is the official name of the holiday in France that celebrates victory in World War II. On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany signed the act of surrender in the headquarters of Anglo-American Commander-in-Chief General Dwight Eisenhower in Reims. This date is celebrated in France as the day when World War II ended in Europe. It should be noted that due to a demand by ...
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the German foundation
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
are starting a joint project to analyse the contemporary situation in the Middle East. The project aims to draw up practical recommendations for the Russian and German leadership on setting up constructive cooperation between the two countries in order to help resolve the crisis situation that has developed in the region since the start of the civil war in Syria. The project includes creating a bilateral...
It has recently been reported that France, Germany and Britain are joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a major Chinese initiative launched in 2013, which now incorporates 32 states, five of them in Europe, plus New Zealand. Russia is so far outside the process, which complicates ...
... Kortunov held a meeting with German MFA Russia Policy Coordinator Gernot Erler, a Bundestag member, accompanied by representatives of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Embassy in Moscow.
Dr. Ivanov briefed the guests on RIAC’s current and future Germany-related activities and the Helsinki+40 project of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in which RIAC acts as the key Russian contributor. The participants also exchanged views on urgent problems of European security and Russian-German relations.
... at the German Foreign Office, the EU is expected to change its strategy in Central Asia as a response to the EAEC’s enlargement. Performing a reality check and viewing Kazakhstan as “an anchor of stability” in Central Asian region, Germany is going to be an important advocate of such approach.
Citing their president Nazarbaev’s message “Road to the Future”[3], Kazakhstan’s representatives reminded to the assembly “the years to come will be a period ...
Germany ready to continue the joint search for the crisis settlement
On Thursday 4 December 2014 the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation reported
that “Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, who ...
... unveils, unsurprisingly, that there might not be anymore physical walls marking the ideal division of the countries in the continent, but undoubtedly a palpable invisible barrier is still present. In this article I will delve into the role played by Germany, currently the most influential country of the EU, in the international crisis with the Russian Federation, trying to outline a picture of the current issue. The celebration ceremony is the best starting point, and it was marked by the evident ...
On November 10-11, 2014, the Körber Foundation held its annual Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, a major international event on current international relations and Germany's role in European and global politics.
The Forum attracted about 200 government officials, experts, journalists, German and international entrepreneurs and foreign diplomats accredited in Berlin. The participants were addressed by German Foreign ...
