Russia has no illusions or high hopes ahead of talks between Iran and the P 5 + 1, five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said upon arrival to Vienna on Tuesday.
"Let’s see what we’ll on hand after these negotiations but, honestly,...
On January 28-29, RIAC President
Igor Ivanov
met
Ali Larijani
, speaker of the Iranian Parliament, and
Mohammad Zarif
, Iran’s Foreign Minister, in Tehran. The parties expressed deep satisfaction over dynamic development of the bilateral multifaceted cooperation that is now facing new opportunities due to the constructive ...
On January 20, 2014 the Russian International Affairs Council held a round table “
A New Agenda for Russia-Iran Relations
.”
When opening the debate, RIAC President
Igor Ivanov
underlined that the situation around Iran is approaching a new stage, which inevitably affects the bilateral relations. In this context, Russia is to clearly determine its long-term ...
Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. RIAC member and Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations Alexander Dynkin; RIAC member and Rector of the Academy of Labor and Social Relations Eugeny Kozhokin; RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov; RIAC member and ...
The most expected international agreement of 2014
Many observers quickly put the Geneva accords with Iran on a par with the Camp David agreements, which definitely seems like an overstatement, in the very least because the Geneva accords are temporary, aimed at lasting only six moths and at normalizing the atmosphere for a genuinely global package deal ...
... thermonuclear conflict. No nuclear bombs dropped from airplanes. No guided missiles launched from hardened sites or submarines. Edward Teller, Admiral Hyman Rickover, General Curtis LeMay and nuclear war theorist Herman Kahn are icons of the past. Today, even Iran is taking part in Pugwash discussions. Photo: University of California The cooperation between the United States and Russia which provides the institutional superstructure to facilitate Kerry-Lavrov and the Iran nuclear talks has its roots in the ...
Only cooperation between Moscow and Washington can solve the Middle East's most vexing problems.
On November 21, 2013,
Foreign Policy published
article "On Syria and Iran, U.S. and Russia Can Work Together" by RIAC President and former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, it is striking that areas of disagreement ...
On November 19, 2013 a meeting between the RIAC members and experts and the Federation Council senators aimed at discussing the topic of the "New agenda for the Russian-Iranian relations" was held in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
The meeting was opened by RIAC President Igor Ivanov, Chairman of the International Affairs Committee Mikhail Margelov and Deputy Chairman of ...
Undeterred by the political-psychological situation surrounding regional nuclear politics FIFA president Sepp Blatter flew into Tehran recently to meet president Hassan Rouhani and approve the Islamic Republic of Iran as the host of FIFA’s 2019 Asia Games. This move was a well thought out public relations coup by the 77 year old Blatter that provides him with media momentum as he seeks an unprecedented fifth term as head of FIFA, the international governing ...
... Relations of the RF MFA (MGIMO) and senior researcher at the Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, talks about whether the resolution approved was in line with the Russian interests and prospects for settlement in Syria, and what changes we can expect in Iran under its new leader.
What do you think about the UN Security Council Resolution on Syria? Can it be counted as a Russian diplomatic triumph?
The resolution on Syria has indeed showcased Russian diplomats’ professionalism. It is also a victory ...