... Moscow, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with Institut Montaigne (France) and with the assistance of the Embassy of the French Republic in the Russian Federation held an international seminar "Conflict Resolution in Syria and Ukraine: Russian and French Approaches". The event was held in the framework of cooperation between the two organizations in a series of seminars.
The meeting included two sessions, one devoted to the settlement of the Syrian crisis, and the other ...
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The upcoming Ukrainian elections are of crucial significance due to their ability to influence the complex structures of regional security and stability. The election results will indeed impact (although to what extent, remains to be seen) the Russia-Ukraine and the wider Russian-EU relations. Given their geopolitical importance, they will surely draw attention from all the significant international actors involved.
The Russian population is keenly following the Ukrainian elections, given the close ...
Assessing the prospects and context of Ukraine’s EU drive
Ukraine first embraced the European path during the 2004 revolution. Institutionally, this path implies the country’s aspiration to join the EU and NATO. The recent amendments to the Ukrainian constitution legitimise this drive....
... military exercises of Black Sea region countries and their partners. For instance, in September 2018, the strategic command staff exercise
Cossack Freedom — 2018
was held and involved Ukrainian troops. A few months prior, in July 2018, the joint Ukraine–US Navy exercise
Sea Breeze 2018
was held in the Black Sea. In 2018, Georgia, Ukraine, France, and the US
held
joint exercises controlled by Romania’s Navy. The press service of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet also
reports
about regular exercises: ...
... control will not help. The INF Treaty is dead, and New START is likely to follow when its time is up in 2021. Thus, Moscow can only work with Washington to prevent incidents from spinning out of control; to avoid escalation of running conflicts such as Ukraine; and to minimize mutual misperceptions. Crucial here is a 24/7 US-Russian military-to-military communication link, and high-level personal contacts between their military and security chiefs. These contacts, of course, are no substitute for a ...
On January 18, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Robert Serry, Chairman of the University for Peace (UPEACE Center The Hague), first Ambassador of the Netherlands in Ukraine, and Renée Jones-Bos, Ambassador of the Netherlands in Russia.
On January 18, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Robert Serry, Chairman of the University for Peace (UPEACE Center The Hague), first Ambassador of ...
... increase.)
Russia will continue to pursue a cautious and conservative program of bolstering its military capability, with an emphasis on gradual technological modernization — including a continued buildup of forces stationed along the border with Ukraine in order to give Moscow more instruments for intervening in the course of the Ukrainian conflict. At the same time, Moscow will desist from any tangible military buildup in the European (northwestern) theater, despite the mutually belligerent ...
... can we explain Russia’s move to seize Ukrainian naval ships in the Kerch Strait?
Andrey Kortunov
I do not believe this move was a way for Russia to be provocative, given that the last thing the country needs today is an escalation of tensions with Ukraine. Although the initiative came from the Ukrainian side, Russia then responded very decisively, which definitely fuelled the crisis.
Michel Duclos
President Putin enjoys this kind of situation, and sees it as an opportunity to take action and make ...
... bound to lead to a collision. Crimea belongs in the same category, only the consequences of the collision are likely to be on a much higher order.
The recent naval incident off the Kerch Strait sends one clear message: the situation between Russia and Ukraine is inherently fraught with a real danger of war. Given the deepening confrontation between Russia and the United States, and Ukraine’s close relations with America and NATO, such a war, should it break out, may not be easily contained. Thus,...
... the goal being to create a globally economic successful Region including Helsinki – Saint Petersburg – Pskov – Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania – Kaliningrad – Stockholm. The participation of Danes, Poles, and Germans is welcome, but not required.
Ukraine
Minsk agreements are fine, but one of the reasons they have not worked in practice is, that there has been no solution in sight, how the situation could be permanently settled. Today, Russia has consolidated its position, and therefore Russia ...
