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Meeting with Ambassadors of Brazil, Egypt, Mexico and South Africa

On July 7, 2022, at the Embassy of Brazil in Russia, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with a group of senior foreign diplomats, including the ambassadors of Egypt, Mexico, and South Africa. On July 7, 2022, at the Embassy of Brazil in Russia, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting ...

08.07.2022

25 Principles of International Order: A Roadmap to Peace

Today, we witness a breakdown in civilized intercourse among nations In my 2018 report to the UN Human Rights Council I formulated 23 principles of international order, framed within the context of the UN Charter, pertinent UN resolutions [1] , customary international law and general principles of law. I noted that the UN Charter is akin to a ...

04.07.2022

A Russian Perspective on the Food Crisis

If Washington really wants to improve the situation in the global agricultural market, let us cooperate Russia has become a target for accusations that have nothing to do with reality. Our country is being imputed with trying to take steps aimed at deliberately degrading global food security, preventing Ukrainian agricultural exports by sea, and blocking the sowing campaign in that country. It’s time to put an end to these speculations....

17.06.2022

International Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies

What should be subjected to international legal regulation is not PMSC as such, but the functions they can perform Over the last decades, the market of private military and security companies has grown dramatically: PMSC personnel take direct part in armed conflicts, provide security services in other situations related to domestic strife ...

26.05.2022

Professor Jeffrey Sachs: “I Don’t Believe in Isolating Russia”

Q&A by Alexander Gasyuk, Rossiyskaya Gazeta’s foreign affairs correspondent Jeffrey Sachs , a renowned Columbia University Professor of economics and former Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General, espouses views uncommon for the mainstream media in the West when it comes to the real origins of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Professor Sachs argues that ...

16.05.2022

Shanghai Institute for International Studies and The Belfer Center Second International Expert Forum

On April 29, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, hosted the second international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises On April 29, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in ...

29.04.2022

We are at war with the West. The European security order is illegitimate

We made the very hard decision to strike first, before the threat becomes deadlier Sergey Karaganov has served as a presidential advisor in the Kremlin both under Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is still considered close to Russia’s president and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. His recent proposals on Russian-speaking minorities in the “near abroad” are known as “Putin doctrine” and Professor ...

15.04.2022

Small Countries as Key Agents in Peace Mediation

... witnessed in recent years, there may be a need to explore some of the reserves in international mediation and diplomacy, including those pertaining to the mediation roles of regional organizations and small advanced economies. The distinguishing feature uniting some of the small open economies is that they perform important mediation roles not only in their respective regions, but also on a global scale. Some of these developed small economies also have taken on a neutral status in international relations ...

21.03.2022

Securitization of Physical Cyberspace Infrastructure as a Nexus in U.S.-Russia Relations: The Case of Submarine Communications Cables

Approaches to cyberwarfare norm-formation involving SCCs are encouraged by both sides, but these may well derive from differing levels of governance not necessarily within the context of the U.S.-Russia relationship Submarine communications cables (SCCs) are essential to all contemporary forms of global communications. SCCs are more reliable and able to transfer larger amounts of data compared to other communications media such as satellites, and are thereby the demonstrably preferred ...

18.02.2022

RIAC at the Online Seminar Dedicated to the Role of the UN in Libya

The meeting was organized by the New York Office to the United Nations, and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung On January 18, 2022, a closed online seminar dedicated to the role of the UN in Libya was held. The meeting was organized by the New York Office to the United Nations, and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The goal ...

18.01.2022
 

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