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What Are the Core Benefits of Multilateralism at the Present Stage?

... influential venue bringing together prominent politicians and leading experts to address current security issues of global and regional dimensions. Such meetings and frank exchanges of opinions are more than in demand today because our world, citing Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, “has approached dangerous line, and perhaps even a more dangerous, than in the Cold War years”. And the Russian minister is not alone in his alarming assessment of recent developments in the world. The situation ...

03.07.2023

Nuclear Non-proliferation in an Unstable World

... VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and encourages potential proliferators to continue attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. Moreover, strategic arms control per se is in a deep crisis: the United States walked out of the ABM and INF agreements, while Russia suspended its participation to the New START that in any case expires in the beginning of 2026. It is not at all clear whether the strategic arms control as we know it since early 1970s survives the current confrontation between Moscow and the ...

03.07.2023

Russia-West: Rising Stakes

Russia’s preservation of its statehood and sovereignty again becomes the main stake of the conflict. The statehood of Ukraine is another stake In Russia, the point of view that the goal of the United States and the “collective West” headed by ...

30.06.2023

Why Russia cannot ‘sober up the West’ by using a nuclear bomb

The nuclear weapons taboo is undoubtedly weakening, but Moscow shouldn’t be the first to break it Professor Sergey Karaganov’s “Tough-but-necessary decision” article – which claims that by using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe – has provoked plenty of reaction both at home and abroad. This is partly due to the author’s status – he has been an adviser to both President Boris Yeltsin and President Vladimir Putin – and ...

29.06.2023

The US and its allies are playing 'Russian Roulette'. You'd almost think they want a nuclear war

... current trajectory, it will end in a total disaster for humanity Dmitry Trenin is a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council. Professor Sergey Karaganov’s “Tough-but-necessary decision” article – which claims that by using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe – has provoked plenty of reaction ...

22.06.2023

RIAC Presents an Anthology Sanctions Policy: Goals, Strategies, Tools

... center hosted a presentation of the 3rd edition of the anthology Sanctions Policy: Goals, Strategies, Tools prepared by RIAC in cooperation with the X- Compliance project of the Interfax Group. The new edition includes materials, prepared by leading Russian lawyers, political scientists and economists on the subject of sanctions. The event was attended by Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director General; Dmitry Timofeev, Director of the External Restrictions Control Department, Ministry of Finance of the Russian ...

21.06.2023
 

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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