Search: Russia,European security (52 materials)

 

How to End the Ukraine Crisis in 4 Steps

... threats or use of force, and peaceful settlement of disputes. The goal is to establish a firm basis for the organization of European security going forward that takes into account historical developments and technological advances since 1975 that affect ... ... Alexander Dynkin is president of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Affairs of the Russian Academy of Sciences and served as an assistant to former Russian Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov. Thomas Graham , a distinguished ...

10.02.2022

Russia-NATO: On the History of the Current Crisis

... Yugoslavia. Our country made tremendous efforts to stop it and reach a political settlement of the conflict. In this environment, contacts between Russia and NATO to develop a framework for further cooperation between the parties in the interests of European security were renewed. On May 22, 2002, the leaders of Russia and nineteen NATO member states signed the Rome Declaration, intended to "turn over a new leaf" in their relations in order to strengthen cooperation to collectively address common threats and security risks. The NATO-Russia Council was ...

03.02.2022

Ukraine: Three Scenarios After the Answer From Washington

The main task for Russia is to avoid excessive overexertion and, at the same time, not get bogged down in a costly confrontation, maintaining and using levers of pressure on the West where its own interests require it The United States handed over to Russia a written ...

31.01.2022

What a Week of Talks Between Russia and the West Revealed

... them by diplomatic means, it will resort to other methods. The meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken on January 21 follows on from the previous week’s intensive talks: the first round of U.S.-Russian dialogue on European security issues in Geneva, followed by sessions of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels and the OSCE Standing Committee in Vienna. The extremely tough talks that took place last week in Europe didn’t end in a public scandal or definitive rupture,...

25.01.2022

Is There a Way Out of the Russia-NATO Talks Impasse?

... to strengthen its own security as far as possible amid the limitations of the current geopolitical situation. To find a way out of the impasse of uncompromising stances being taken by both sides, it would first seem reasonable to disentangle the U.S.-Russian strategic weapons agenda from issues of European security. Negotiations between Moscow and Washington on nuclear issues follow their own logic and dynamics. They are too important to both sides and the international community to link them to any other problems, including security in Europe....

25.01.2022

What is driving Russia’s security concerns?

... particularly the elements of equal security and the obligation that no country not to strengthen its own security at the expanse of the other. These principles are enshrined in the Helsinki Final Act (1975), in the Paris Charter (1990), in the NATO-Russia Founding Act (1997) and in the Charter of European Security (1999). Therefore, it should be the obligation of both sides to work out the parameters of indivisible security holistically and not to pretend that this is an invention of Moscow. Arguably, indivisibility of security may include, for ...

21.01.2022

Russia and the EU Bear a Special Responsibility for the Security of Our Common European Continent

..., constrain and engage Russia in areas of EU interest”. This is, to put it bluntly, a kind of a Bermuda triangle. In these treacherous waters any constructive initiatives are doomed to run aground and sink. Hardly the best scenario for the current European security equation. 3. Globally Russia and the countries of the European Union are being overwhelmed by poly-crises, ranging from pandemics and migration to climate change. The scale and complexity of these security-related challenges is mounting at an alarming rate. Being closest neighbors,...

12.11.2021
 

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