Policy Brief # 56 / 2024
Policy Brief # 56 / 2024
Climate change is identified in Russia’s Climate Doctrine as “one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century,” a statement that is hard to disagree with. Scientists around the world have agreed that anthropogenic factors play a key role in this process through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2020, the increase in global average temperature...
... urea-ammonia and phosphate fertilizers).
Russia is ready to keep on strictly fulfilling its obligations under international contracts regarding shipments of agricultural products. We are aware of the importance of our wheat for the nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the
Middle East
. In the current agricultural year, our exports will amount to 37 million tons of grain, next year we plan to increase it up to 50 million tons. Russia intends to continue providing humanitarian assistance, including through the UN World Food ...
On March 21-23, 2022, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) is holding the conference “Economic, Social, Political, Ethno-Confessional Problems of Asian and African countries”. The meeting was organized by the Center for Study of Common Problems of Contemporary East of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS.
On March 21-23, 2022, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences ...
... Progress, and Prosperity
” that the leaders agreed on during their summit announced that “the sides agreed to explore mutually acceptable and beneficial areas of cooperation in third countries especially in the Central Asia, South East Asia and Africa.” This can be interpreted as their interest in jointly facilitating the balancing acts of third countries in those regions (including their local Eurasian and South Asian ones) that are struggling to remain neutral in the New Cold War. The paradigm ...
On December 15, 2021, the IV Moscow Academic Conference “Asia and Africa at the Crossroads of Tradition, Modernization and Globalization” was held at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
On December 15, 2021, the IV Moscow Academic Conference “Asia and Africa at the Crossroads ...
On December 7, 2021, the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) held the conference “Prospects for the processes of destabilization in the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa”
On December 7, 2021, the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) held the conference “Prospects for the processes of destabilization in the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel ...
... Security.
The round table was devoted to the issues of agrarian development and agricultural policy, food and environmental security problems in the East. Besides, the participants discussed social inequality and green growth in the economies of Asian and African countries. The event also was devoted to the situation on the global food market in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Referent at the Russian International Affairs Council Ivan Bocharov took part in the round table. His report was devoted ...
... presented collective and individual monographs written by the staff of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS and published in 2020.
The conference was attended by RIAC Vice-President Aleksandr Aksenenok. He took part in the round table "Bigger Middle East: Lines of Interplay and Lines of Confrontation (2020 with Projection into 2021)", in which fundamental geopolitical changes in the region in 2020 were discussed. Besides, the participants discussed the prospects for the political development ...
... growth is likely to be concentrated in urban areas, which will thus require significant infrastructure investment. These development sectors could provide economic opportunities for the private sector in the MENA region, particularly in the Maghreb.
Middle Eastern and African countries will be forced to cooperate in the use of shared natural resources (for example, in regulating the water resources of the Nile basin), in minimizing the negative effects of climate change and in managing migration;
Joint projects with ...
... the Palestinian territory and moved in step with Saudi Arabia in hailing the Madrid peace process. Riyadh very well understood that the nascent irreversible changes in the region should, despite all difficulties, facilitate the emergence of a regional Middle Eastern space incorporating the Arab world and Israel. Riyadh was eager to lead the emerging process and the OIC extended a helping hand through supporting the
al-Aqsa Intifada
and condemning the Israeli response to its advance. By adopting the ...
