The Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Council for International Affairs (RIAC) and the Governance and Policy Think Tank (GPTT) was signed
The Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Council for International Affairs (RIAC) and the Governance and Policy Think Tank (GPTT) ...
The recently concluded 9th Inter-Governmental Commission (IGC) meeting between Pakistan and Russia in Moscow marks a significant milestone in the bilateral relationship between the two nations. This historic meeting, attended by Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Energy, Sardar Owais Ahmed Leghari, and a high-level delegation, culminated in the ...
Russia has consistently worked towards the main thing – to be perceived in Asia as part of the region
It is natural for any state to prioritize those geographic regions from which the main threat to its basic interests and values originates. Russia ...
On December, 3, 2024, RIAC hosted a roundtable titled US-China Competition: Opportunities for Russia
On December, 3, 2024, RIAC hosted a roundtable titled US-China Competition: Opportunities for Russia. The discussion featured the presentation of an eponymous book produced by the authors of the Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations ...
Emotion and frustration seem to be taking over the political world, but especially so in the UK
Introduction
This paper attempts to uncover why England (and later the United Kingdom) has a deep historical dislike of Russia and Russian society. Starting with William Pitt’s verbal attack on Russia in 1791, the same sentiments moved onto the Dardanelles, the so-called “Great Game”, the Crimean War, the acquisition of Cyprus, Mackinder’s obsession with Russia,...
Immanuel Kant: “Out of wood so crooked as that of which man is made, nothing absolutely straight can be wrought”
Queen Louise Bridge over the Russian-Lithuanian border, Summer 2023
East
Challenging times await. Lithuania is reinforcing its border to Kaliningrad Oblast, formerly Königsberg. New barriers known as “dragon’s teeth” have been installed on the Queen Louise Bridge at the ...
... test” of the latest Oreshnik missile system was carried out with a strike on the territory of Ukraine. The latter will be discussed in greater detail.
Background
The Stabilizing “Basic Principles”: Moscow Reduces Options for Pre-Nuclear Escalation. Russia’s leading experts on the new Russia’s nuclear doctrine
It so happened: Russia was walking (and even pushed) to the Oreshnik launch for quite a long time. Without going too deep into history, there are two main factors worth focusing on.
In ...
The breakdown of private Russia-NATO diplomacy increases the risks of a terrible event
The ongoing standoff over Ukraine is increasingly becoming a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, raising serious concerns about the risk of nuclear escalation.
In this new phase,...
Kiev is the most vulnerable party in any development of the situation—both radical and basic. The question is the price for all participants. The price for Ukraine will be the highest
Russia and the West are going through another stage of military-political escalation. Its immediate indicator was Ukraine’s use of American and British missile systems to strike Russian territory, the emergence of Moscow’s new nuclear doctrine, the ...
... possible foundations of international cooperation in Greater Eurasia.
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We see that in the case of potential international cooperation in Greater Eurasia, none of the political factors mentioned in the previous section function. For those states that Russia calls upon to create some new international reality, there is no unifying external threat. Their political elites are not in the position of a besieged fortress, as was the case with the European colonial powers or the pided Germany in the second ...