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On November 22, Russian International Affairs Council hosted a meeting of Andrey Kortunov, Director General, RIAC, Viktors Makarovs, Parliamentary Secretary, Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Latvian Embassy to Russia staff. The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting: current Russia-Latvia relations, Baltic region security challenges, Moscow-Riga Track II diplomacy priorities and ...
Ivan Timofeev, Program Director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), and RIAC Program Coordinator Anna Kuznetsova took part in the meeting of experts “Russia, Latvia, and Europe after the Warsaw NATO Summit” that was held in Riga on October 29, 2016 within the framework of the Riga Conference on international security issues. The event was organized jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic ...
The Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) has posted on its website a report, which is a follow-up publication to the annual Riga Dialogue Conference that took place last May. The list of authors of the publication includes RIAC Program Director ...
On September 14, 2016 the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (Riga) held a public debate “ The West and Russia: Bridges or Walls? ” which was attended by experts, politicians and media representatives. RIAC Program Manager Ekaterina Chimiris represented at ...
... Atlanticism Second, the scale of the exercise this year is significantly greater than before. The number of military personnel that took part in the exercise in 2012 was “ over 200 ”. In 2015, that number had increased to over 350 (with the Latvian armed forces joining in). This year, over 1200 personnel were involved – in addition to Latvian and U.S. troops, representatives of the armed forces of Poland, Canada and Germany were also in attendance (the last two probably having the ...
... energy strategy of the Baltic countries is underpinned by a single political imperative: to eliminate the “Baltic island” of the EU energy system. In fact infrastructure (transport, gas, electricity and so on) is the last sphere Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have failed to completely integrate into Europe over the past 25 post-Soviet years. The Baltic gas infrastructure has been closely linked with the eastern neighbour since the Soviet times: in 2014 Russia fully met the gas needs of ...
On November 6, 2015, RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov took part in roundtable " The EU and Russia: a Dialogue in Changed Security Environment " on the margins of the Riga Conference organized by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs . In his report on the new security architecture in Eurasia, Dr. Makhmutov stressed the need for quality assessment of the current Russia-EU relationship, as well as for examination of the sides' perception of ...
The top news story in Latvia right now is the arrest of Latvian Railways President Ugis Magonis. Latvian Railways is largest company in Latvia. More people work for the company than any other state or business entity in the country. It is a valuable source of income for the ...
Sergey Rekeda: Who Benefits from it? The Baltic countries, i.e. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which have rarely demonstrated a penchant for pragmatic relations with Russia over the past 25 years, seem to take the lead in the number of those who gain from the Ukraine crisis, with obvious benefits to be reaped simultaneously ...
... collapse, when Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost reforms were underway. First, the Popular Fronts across these republics proposed an entirely different interpretation of those events. On May 13-14, 1989, the “Baltic Assembly of Popular Fronts of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania” convened in Tallinn and passed a Resolution on Stalinist Crimes, stating that “after being annexed in summer 1940, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were seized by the totalitarian regime which launched ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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