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Throughout 2015, developments in Ukraine were at the center of attention of world politics, but at this point in time, the events in Kiev have somewhat lost their urgency. The change of A. Yatsenyuk’s government, the epic concerning N. Savchenko’s extradition to Ukraine, ...
... presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy) played a great role in the negotiation process in Georgia in 2008, so its intervention today could only be well received by the actors. Secondly, France was present in Budapest in 1994 at the occasion of the Memorandum when Ukraine dismantled its nuclear arsenal. Finally, François Hollande - the president of the Republic, and its foreign minister - Jean-Marc Ayrault, are occidental leaders who have positive relations with Russia, which is also an asset to arbitrate ...
My Russian friends used to annoy me when they insisted I could not understand Russia if I knew only Moscow and St. Petersburg. So I began to visit other Russian cities and surrounding countryside--Perm, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Izhevsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Ufa, Krasnodar, Vladimir-Suzdal, Tuapse. My conclusion? My friends were right. These cities are not Moscow or St. Petersburg. But then, Oklahoma City, Provo Utah, Flint Michigan, and Columbus Ohio are not New York City or Washington D.C. There...
On the April 20 the NATO-Russia Council convened in Brussels for the first time in almost two years. Two weeks earlier, the Netherlands held a consultative referendum on the Association Treaty of the European Union with Ukraine. Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent, shared his views on results of the Dutch referendum, the future for Ukraine in the EU after the referendum, Ukrainian crisis, as well as the challenges of NATO-Russia ...
... US with a naval support facility in Deveselu. This NATO flotilla would primarily rely on NATO Black Sea members naval capabilities (i.e. Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey), but would not be restricted to them, with prospects to join already offered to Ukraine and Georgia, while some Western navies would be contributing as well (in particular the US, Italian and German).[1] Taking into account that all Black Sea maritime countries have, at best, difficult relations with Russia, Romania’s proposal ...
On April 9-12, 2016 representatives of four leading research centers from Germany, the USA, Ukraine and Russia, namely the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Institute for Global Transformations and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), held a meeting in Potsdam to make ...
The conference aims to provide a detailed analysis of the oil and gas markets of Central and Eastern Europe – Belarus, Visegrad countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary), Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltic states, Ukraine, the European part of Russia both in terms of regional retail, commercial and industrial consumption and in the context of international innovative pipeline and refining projects. The Republic of Belarus is the country with a modern, advanced,...
Predicting how the situation surrounding the conflict in Eastern Ukraine will develop and determining what the architecture of Russia–Ukraine relations moving forward will look like are both reasonably difficult tasks, because the course of events is influenced by a number of objective and subjective factors....
... government has long been unstable, and rumors about his possible resignation of the post of Prime Minister have surfaced every so often. This time he seems to be truly leaving. RIAC expert shares his insights on who might become the next Prime Minister of Ukraine, and what Yatsenyuk’s resignation could mean for Russia. Initially, there are three possible scenarios. A. Yatsenyuk could stay for some time and retain his position, but this could prompt early elections, most likely in the autumn of 2016,...
On March 21, 2016 London School of Economics together with Berlin's Hertie School of Governance and German Dahrendorf Forum held an international seminar “The EU, Russia and Ukraine: Finding Ways to Get Out of the Deadlock and Move Forward.” Experts from the UK, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Ukraine and Russia discussed the current problems and possible scenarios of relations development in the EU-Russia-Ukraine triangle....
| 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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