... Interest’s
new report: Costs of a New Cold War: The U.S.-Russia Confrontation over Ukraine. You can read the full report
here
.
Russia’s relations with the West entered a new and less-than-happy chapter earlier this year. U.S. and European economic sanctions are the defining and consistent feature of this new chapter, though Russia’s actual and potential responses are becoming increasingly important.
So far, Russia’s “internal diseases” have harmed it much more than Western ...
... Ukrainian crisis and requiring an immediate solution, is the need to find new business partners and suppliers of food products for the Russian market following the food embargo imposed by Vladimir Putin’s government on those countries which joined
sanctions against Russia
[3]
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We can assume that if the Kremlin had a strategic vision for Latin America as a long-term partner, it was mostly in ideological and geopolitical terms, rather that trade and economic ones. This new vision has shaped our ...
Russia Direct sat down with Carnegie Moscow Center Director Dmitri Trenin to discuss the new wave of the sanctions war between Russia and the West, the recent NATO summit in Wales, common external threats for Russia and the West such as Islamic State, and the odds of success for the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire agreement.
Although Russia and Ukraine seem to ...
... the countries of Latin America against a backdrop of the country’s growing isolation from the West. President Putin managed to either win support for Russia's position in Ukraine from most of the region’s leaders or make them condemn the sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies.
The Russian President's visit gave renewed impetus and relevance to the alliance of emerging powers. It is no secret that many experts were skeptical about it, regarding it as a mere platform for ...
... offending peaceful Georgia and its president. I did not add any insulting word about Saakashvili for myself. But some three months later, Miliband’s advisers leaked the episode to mass media for some reason, besides strongly distorting it.
On sanctions and alliances
- Nevertheless then there was ‘reset’ of relations with America, relations with the West were sorted out, and now all has gone backward after the events in Ukraine and the situation around Crimea.
- If it was not for ...
... will not oppose Washington openly, but “will covertly pursue an independent policy aimed at maintaining and expanding the Russian-Japanese partnership”. Substantiating this major conclusion, K. Kobayashi refers to the fact that Japanese sanctions against Russia, in contrast to those imposed by America and Europe, have been somewhat symbolic and less stringent. Furthermore, he draws attention to the following facts. Certain Russian politicians involved in promoting bilateral relations ...
... resources and levers.
Yuri Rubinsky
France is not ready to go out on its own, and its domestic political environment is also quite tricky.
France's stance is matched to that of Angela Merkel and the European Union, although Paris somewhat differs on the sanctions declared by the EU and the United States. The 2011 contract for four
Mistral
ships – actually two, as of today – used to be very lucrative for French military shipbuilding, especially because of stagnation and growing unemployment....
The Western countries continue to punish Moscow with sanctions for what is happening in Ukraine. Meanwhile experts warn that the restrictions may hit their initiators more than they hit Russia.
In late July 2014 Europe and the United States imposed
fresh sanctions
against Moscow. Apart from the now traditional ...
... developing markets in the region just as high as in Europe. The partnership between China and Russia has both political and economic dimensions.
Russia and China have similar positions on many global policy issues, including the events in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia. For all the importance of the gas contract signed by the two countries, partnership agreements in other economic sectors and major Chinese investment plans in Russia are no less significant.
I recently participated in a number ...
... unavoidable on observing the discussions on Ukraine in the U.S. For all the pluralist views on the causes, dynamics, and likely consequences of the Ukrainian crisis, U.S. political and expert opinion is almost exclusively centered on two points: first, the sanctions against Russia — their scope and consistency, mechanisms to apply them, and the potential impact on the Kremlin; second, the apparent and rather blinkered belief that the U.S. is quite capable of solving major international issues without ...
