On November 6, 2018, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, Nadezhda Arbatova, Head of Department for European Political Studies at RAS IMEMO, and Tatyana Parkhalina, Deputy Director at RAS Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, had a meeting with Rob Taylor, Divisional Manager, Europe Division of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand.
On November 6, 2018, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, Nadezhda Arbatova, Head of Department for European Political Studies...
Reflections on a Far Right win, European dream team, and a two-speed Europe
The next elections for the European Parliament will take place on 23-26 May 2019 and the EU’s various political families are already mobilising. They will be crucial elections in a crucial year. 2019 promises tough times for Europe with Brexit, elections, and certainly more financial turbulences, which are already under way. Here we propose three short- and medium-term possible scenarios, none of which looks reassuring...
The present Russia-West conflict need not predetermine a difficult Russiaт-Western century. What are the scenarios? And what can be done?
Can Russia return to the European fold in the foreseeable future? I ask this not in the geographic sense, of course — for Russia has always been, and remains, on all the evidence — a predominantly European country. But what of a new communion, in terms of institutions and values, between Russia and the EU, with which Moscow fell out in scandal several years...
On November 2, 2018, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Thomas Greminger, Secretary General of the OSCE, and the accompanying European diplomats.
On November 2, 2018,
Andrey Kortunov
, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Thomas Greminger, Secretary General of the OSCE, and the accompanying European diplomats.
The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting: participation of independent Russian, European, and American experts in the preparation of...
... document might have some connection with recent US moves. In August, chemical weapons were the reason for the development of sanctions against Russia both by the Congress (the DASKAA bill) and by the Administration (based on PL 102-82 of 1991). The European Union could hardly have avoided the new wave of sanctions, especially since Brussels expressed solidarity with Great Britain in the Skripal case and was generally on the side of those who condemned the Syrian government for the alleged use of ...
On October 29-30, 2018, Vienna hosted the second international forum to discuss Eastern partnership — Eastern Partnership Reflection Forum (the initiative was launched in 2017 in Minsk). The theme of the forum was “The Politics of the Eastern Partnership: Looking Ahead at a New Decade of Challenges”.
On October 29-30, 2018, Vienna hosted the second international forum to discuss Eastern partnership — Eastern Partnership Reflection Forum (the initiative was launched in 2017 in Minsk). The theme...
... with Axel Kenes, Director General for Multilateral Affairs and Globalisation at Belgium MFA, and the staff of the Belgian Foreign Ministry.
The following issues were discussed during the meeting: current issues in interaction between Russia and the European Union and the possibility for rapprochement of the positions of the parties on the settlement of the Syrian and Ukrainian crises. The meeting also touched upon the problems of forming a new European security system in the context of a possible ...
In recent decades great powers usually win the wars but lose at peace
Speech delivered at the session “Foreign Policy in Uncertain Times: Pursuing Development in a Changing World” at the 15
th
Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club
Two hundred years ago, the prominent German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz proposed his famous definition of war as “the continuation of politics by other means.” This definition has not changed in any significant way since, but two world wars have made...
Turkey will host four-way summit on the Syria conflict
The possibility of military intervention by Bashar Assad forces in Idlib early September increased pressure on all foreign players of the Syrian conflict. But at the same time it enabled progress, which brought closer the EU, Turkey and Russia. The deal between Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan over demilitarization zone (DMZ) revived the possibility of summit with the participation of France, Germany, Turkey and Russia. The meeting will...
... Ivan Timofeev, one of the authors of the report, member of RIAC expert group. The so-called model of simultaneous partnership is quite viable. For example, Armenia and Kazakhstan, being EAEU members, are at the same time closely cooperating with the European Union. Cooperation between Brussels and Moscow is real, but in the conditions of the current political crisis, it is necessary to carefully designate the areas of cooperation. This approach was formulated by the EU with the help of “selective ...
