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On August 26, 2016, in Canberra, Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University Michael Wesley and Director of the Russian International Affairs Council Andrey Kortunov signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The parties discussed potential priorities in view of cooperation between the two organizations including international food security and comparative analysis ...
On August 24-26, 2016, the Australian National University was the venue for international conference " Putin's Russia in the Wake of the Cold War " with participation of foreign policy experts from key Australian think tanks and universities, journalists and diplomats, the first major academic event on Russia during the past several years. RIAC Director General ...
... infamous “ shirt-fronting ” threat by then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott to actual economic sanctions arranged by the United States and EU and joined by Australia. However, as the Track 1.5 discussions in Moscow went on, the unlikeliness of Russia-Australia strategic interaction went from natural to regretful. The two countries enclose the vast strip of land and sea which is the Western Pacific in its two extremities — Russia from the north and Australia from the south. And though the heartland ...
... economic interests of Russia and Australia in multilateral economic institutions of Asia-Pacific Ambassador Vyacheslav Dolgov, Dr. Kortunov, Dr. Wesley and Dr. Wilson focused on bilateral relationships. “The event is truly unparalleled since the Russian-Australian contacts are extremely limited, and the meeting must have been the first during the past decade,” said Ambassador Dolgov. Moderators: Igor Denisov, senior research fellow of the Institute for International Studies at MGIMO-University,...
On February 23, 2016 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with former Australia’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, who is now President of the Asia Society Policy Institute , and is on a visit to Moscow. The sides discussed the problems of security in South Asia and in the Asia-Pacific region, primarily ...
... resolving Arctic issues, primarily the Latin American states of Chile, Brazil, and Argentina. Consultations with New Zealand also appear likely, given the broadly positive nature of the bilateral relationship (regrettably, the opposite is the case with Australia). In the long view, Russia might even enter into talks with Great Britain and France, which still lay claim to Antarctic territories. In return, Moscow could request assistance from Paris and London in advancing its Arctic interests. Russia might even enter into talks with ...
... Kurds have managed to stabilize the situation after the deep incursion made the ISIS Mujahideen in the summer of 2014. In turn, Australia has been involved in air raids on the jihadists’ positions. Incidentally, the country’s special services ... ... allegiance of the Caucasus Emirate to ISIS substantiate the threats of al-Baghdadi’s fellow-fighters against Azerbaijan and Russia, which have so far refrained from participation in this fight. At the same time, one of the major challenges for the international ...
... innovation in all the topics and approaches, a great number of points were effectively continued in developing what was proposed during the Russian presidency. These include the problem of employment on Australia’s agenda, one of the topics of the Russian presidency, which Australian officials quite scornfully referred to as insufficiently important and systematic. In 2013 the Russian Federation merged the financial and labour tracks, but this year merging the financial and leadership tracks is referred to as an exceptionally ...
Andrey Kortunov, the Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council discusses criticism of President Vladimir Putin's support for pro-Russian militants in Ukraine who are accused of shooting down Malaysia flight MH 17 , and Putin's failure to insist that the crash area be secured ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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