VIENNA (Tasnim) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov voiced his country's willingness to learn from Iran's experience in dealing with Western sanctions against Moscow over its alleged involvement in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
Sergei Ryabkov is heading the Russian team of negotiators in the new round of the nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers in the Austrian capital of Vienna. Here is the full text of Sergei Ryabkov’s interview with Tasnim News Agency ...
... Security at MGIMO-University and Andrey Sushentsov, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems at MGIMO-University.
The event was followed by the roundtable “
Russian-Georgian Relations’ Normalization: the Ukraine Crisis Fallout
” with participation of Russian and Georgian experts who covered the following issues:
Russian and Georgian intermediate assessments of domestic and international consequences of the Ukraine crisis.
The impact of Ukraine ...
... communities that were down-trodden and ignored. Rather, there has been a grinding inexorable plodding progress, at best, of countries that discovered soon enough that identifying the problems was far easier than actually solving them. In that I suspect Ukraine will be no different, no matter how many elections, reforms, or ‘repositions’ the country goes through. But that is not what is most interesting from an academic perspective. Rather, it is the fairly unique set of structural circumstances ...
... reunification with Russia is now taken for granted.
Moving forward, the illegitimate authorities in Kiev attempt to misrepresent the consequences of their destructive policies for some time, but will not succeed in hiding evidence of what was done against Ukraine’s true interests.
With regard to the United States, I can’t remember a single time when Washington displayed such nervousness, and even bewilderment, as in the recent months in connection with the developments in Ukraine. Things went ...
Author: András Radnóti, Junior Researcher, Russian International Affairs Council. A look at European and Eurasian integration after the Ukraine crisis Abstract: Driven by the negative narratives through which it explains the world, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has launched an ambitious integration project in direct competition with the European Union. Although it is acknowledged by both ...
Last Friday’s burning House of Trade Unions in Odessa, which left over 40 people dead and scores of injured, has given an insight into how brutal and ugly a civil war in Ukraine might be. Different reactions in Kiev and in Eastern Ukraine to what has happened in Odessa demonstrate that the country is fast acquiring a civil war mentality. If history is any guide, a full-scale domestic conflict in Ukraine can be messy, ...
... books: Deception, on Russia-West espionage, The New Cold War, on Putin’s Russia and the threat it poses to the West, and The Snowden Operation. He is a non-resident fellow at the Washington think-tank CEPA.
Assessing the consequences of the Ukraine crisis for the wider world, commentators’ concerns are manifold. National sovereignty, international law and norms, the European security architecture, dividing lines and polarity within Europe, to mention but a few key concepts. What do ...
Has the crisis in Ukraine damaged Russia's ties with its compatriots abroad? We discussed the current situation with Eugenia Troitskaya, advisor for the Program Implementation Department of the Government Commission on Affairs of Compatriots Abroad at the Federal Agency ...
What comes after Geneva?
Less than a week after the signing of the Geneva agreement on Ukraine, all of the initial optimism has given way to doubt, skepticism and pessimism. More and more politicians and observers now have a hard time believing that the "spirit of Geneva" can be maintained at all. In fact, some even say the Geneva ...
Over the two decades of the post-Soviet period, Ukraine has been the key migration partner for Russia, with almost two million individuals having emigrated to Russia since 1992, according to Russia's Federal Statistics Agency. In 2012, more than 50,000 more arrived, which makes Ukraine Russia's second ...
