This is the main question in the wake of the 8th EU-LAC summit held in Brussels on June 10-12, 2015. It is worth recalling that the first bi-regional meeting of the heads of state and government of Latin America and the Caribbean with their counterparts from the European Union was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1999. These regional summits take place every two years in order to review transcontinental cooperation and map out plans for the future. After ...
With the arrival of 21st century, the Internet has become a key factor in global development, although Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is often seen as one of the poorest and socially insecure regions, largely bypassed by global technological trends. However, LAC has is playing a dynamic role in the virtual space, as university-based advanced technologies ...
Russia and China in the Brazilian Arms Market
In recent years, Latin American countries have drastically altered their military doctrines, most of them now willing to significantly diversify their military hardware suppliers and drop their absolute dependence on the United States and Europe. Their military budgets ...
Russia and China in the Latin American Arms Market. Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua
At Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation (MTC) session with Foreign States on January 27, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin encouraged those present to seek out new markets, in particular ...
... Makhmutov and Ambassador Valery Morozov, a RIAC expert, took part in the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum to present RIAC's report "
Russia-Mexico Relations: Traditional Basics and Imperatives for Renovation
" at the session on Russia's relations with Latin America. The event was attended by heads of Latin American missions including those from the Pacific Alliance, as well as members of the Krasnoyarsk Area administration, business community and civil society engaged in promotion of Russia's interests ...
On February 26, 2015, Ambassador Valery Morozov, a RIAC Expert, visited the Siberian Federal University as part of the cooperation program between the two institutions to deliver a lecture on the current role of Latin America, prospects for its cooperation with Russia, political and economic specifics of Latin American countries, as well as their relations with the United States, EU and China with the focus on the rise of new regional integration associations....
The Pacific Alliance project has attracted close attention from governments and economists worldwide. Assessments of its orientation and activities are quite ambiguous. A number of politicians and public figures in Latin America (LA) have taken the news of the establishment of the Alliance with caution, seeing it as an avenue for the promotion of US policy in the region and an antagonist to Mercosur. How correct are these views? What are the opportunities for the ...
Latin Americans Respond to the Challenge
As was the case with the American continent before 1492, today, Latin American universities are largely terra incognita for most of the world. Known mostly to scholars from the same continent and a slim number ...
Speech by Vladimir Davydov
Speech by Vladimir Davydov, Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Institute of Latin America, at the Roundtable “Russia and Pacific Alliance: Opportunities for Expanded Cooperation”, RIAC, September 30, 2014.
Russian-Mexican Relations: the Imperatives of Development at the Present Stage
Dear Igor Sergeevich,
Your Excellency ...
Speech at the Roundtable “Russia and Pacific Alliance: Opportunities for Expanded Cooperation”
Speech by Alexander Shchetinin, Director of the Latin American Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, at the Roundtable “Russia and Pacific Alliance: Opportunities for Expanded Cooperation”, RIAC, September 30, 2014.
Dear Igor Sergeevich,
Your Excellency and my friend Ruben Beltran ...
