On October 20, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council hosted roundtable "
Russian and Western Views on Conflict Resolution and Security Challenges
" attended by pundits from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, the Brookings Institution, Johns Hopkins University, Centre for European Policy Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, IMEMO, Lomonosov Moscow State University and other institutions, who focused on the Ukraine and Syria crises.
The Ukraine discussion...
On September 21-24, Sarajevo was the venue of the 3rd Meeting of Young Experts' Group on Ukraine Settlement and Euro-Atlantic Security, which also covered economic issues and supremacy of law. The group will continue to work along these three tracks.
The event was attended by young leaders from Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the United States, as well as members of the NGOs, think tanks, academia and business community, with RIAC represented by Program Director Ivan Timofeyev and Program Manager Natalia...
The decision of Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovysh not to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union was the starting point of the still on-going Ukrainian crisis. In this conflict, Russians and Ukrainians, who have historically had extremely close cultural ties, have been confronting each other. The western community, which does not seem to fully grasp the scope of the conflict, has not been a ...
