... future OSCE PA role with the focus on Ukraine crisis and prospects for relationship between Europe and Russia.
Opinions have been voiced that time has come to change the key and regard Russia as part of Europe rather than plunge into confrontation, the sanctions being vestiges of the past and hardly effective as foreign policy tools since they damage both Russia and European countries. Many said that the OSCE seems the least efficient organization in the Ukraine context.
It was the third Helsinki+40 ...
... relations between Russia and the European Union, the event was attended by over 30 key foreign affairs experts from Germany, Poland, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Holland, Spain, Norway, Austria, Estonia and Slovakia, who discussed the effects of EU sanctions on Russia and its European partners and their possible moderation, current and future Russia-China relations, and Moscow’s Asia pivot, scenarios for Ukraine crisis and European security issues in its context.
... being outside of the MMoU had been a major issue for Russian companies considering capital raising in China, and fears were expressed as late as January that, amidst ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Russia's signing of the MMoU might be further delayed. Sanctions have been most effective in squeezing Russian banks and businesses by preventing them from meeting their borrowing needs. In April of last year Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Russian companies to delist from Western stock exchanges,...
... “
Proposals for the Development of Russian–Polish Partnership
”.
The jam-packed agenda included discussions about political and economic obstacles, and the opportunities and prospects of developing bilateral relations.
Anti-Russian sanctions and the impact of the Ukrainian crisis on these relations between the two countries loomed large. Below
Stanislav Secrieru
, Senior Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and
Anatoly Leirikh
, Chairman of the ...
Japan’s Ukrainian principles
Japan joined the sanctions policy initiated by the West against Russia from day one of the escalations in the situation in Ukraine. The first three packages of Japanese sanctions were aimed not so much at punishing Russia, as at demonstrating solidarity with the West ...
... side adapts to the new rules of the game, which were created by the West without considering the opinion of such an an important counteragent.” Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Politics journal, told Vestnik Kavkaza about sanctions, countersanctions, and the gas issue.
Recently it was found out that seven EU countries support the elimination of anti-Russian sanctions, including Austria, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, France and the Czech Republic. Japan and Germany stand for ...
... operation. Breaking another economy through a oil price war alone might prove a risky endeavor when the attacker is highly dependent on oil themselves, but chances of success could be improved if pressure is applied by other means, namely if economic sanctions are added to the equation.
So, talking about the real targets, Russia is the only one really mentioned by the Minister, and given the tones of West's foreign policy, there was no need to dissimulate this occurrence, because doing so ...
... change in policy in the European vector.
In accordance with Council Decision 2014/658/CFSP, restrictive measures against Russia can be reviewed on March 15, 2015. Judging from statements made by a number of European politicians, it is unlikely that new sanctions will be levied against Russian at the Summit on 18–19 December, 2014. However, on December 15 the Foreign Affairs Council supported the recommendation of the head of the European External Action Service to impose additional restrictive ...
... the risk is the same expressed by an old Latin brocard, which is simply: together they stand, together they fall. It is just the case to point out that the hit suffered by the German industry is ironically emerging after the enactment of the economic sanctions against Moscow, of which Chancellor Merkel was a most strenuous advocate. This kind of measures produces effects after the elapsing of a latency period, and they have a very high likelihood of backfiring, an occurrence which was likely produced ...
Sanctions as the main tool of economic diplomacy
As the international crisis around Ukraine escalates, countries in the West, especially the United States, have increasingly used economic diplomacy against Russia, and threaten to expand the scale and ...
