On June 29, 2021, RIAC Director General had a meeting with Mark Michielsen, Belgian Ambassador to Moscow.
On June 29, 2021, RIAC Director General had a meeting with Mark Michielsen, Belgian Ambassador to Moscow.
In the course of the meeting the sides discussed issues of the current state of relations between Russia, NATO and the European Union, as well as the prospects for the development of bilateral Russian-Belgian relations. In addition, they touched upon the challenges of European security...
On July 29, 2019, Alexei Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with a group of European diplomats, including ambassadors from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, at the Belgian Embassy in Moscow.
On July 29, 2019, Alexei Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting ...
On November 18, 2018, in the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium to Russia, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC General Director, met with the Belgian delegation from The Royal Institute for International Relations (EGMONT) visiting Moscow, as well as with Marc Franco, former Head of the European Commission to Russia.
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... October 23, 2018, Andrey Zagorsky, RIAC Member, Director of IMEMO RAS Department of Disarmament and Conflict Resolution, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with Axel Kenes, Director General for Multilateral Affairs and Globalisation at Belgium MFA, and the staff of the Belgian Foreign Ministry.
On October 23, 2018, Andrey Zagorsky, RIAC Member, Director of IMEMO RAS Department of Disarmament and Conflict Resolution, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with Axel Kenes, ...
March 22, 2016, started with tragic news from the capital of Belgium: severe
explosions
occurred in the departure lounge of an airport and at Maelbeek metro stations in the EU institutions district. The terrorist attack killed 31 people, with over 250 injured. This attack, as well as many others of the kind, was ...
Belgium. The Two-and-a-Half
In a record time of only four months after the parliamentary elections, the Belgians have formed a new government led by 38-year-old Charles Michel, the youngest prime minister since 1841. His emergence is building up suspense ...
La Belgique ne regrette rien (Belgium has no regrets) by Edith Wharton
Not with her ruined silver spires,
Not with her cities shamed and rent,
Perish the imperishable fires
That shape the homestead from the tent.
Wherever men are staunch and free,
There shall she keep her fearless ...
"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
Otto Von Bismarck during his term as Minister President of Prussia.
As one of my favourite diplomats emphasis Russia, so am I very intrigued and wary by the biggest country in the world. In the upcoming month I will have the pleasure to write different personal analytical articles and my very own blog for the Russian International Affairs Council. Europe in Russia blog will be mostly about Russian foreign policy viewed through...
Separatists in Europe: Strangers among Friends
Separatism is most apparent in certain regions of such European Union members as Great Britain (Scotland, Northern Ireland), Spain (Catalonia, Basque Provinces), Belgium (Flanders), Italy (northern provinces), and France (Corsica). Separatist activity manifests not only within the political sphere, but sometimes (in Northern Ireland, Basque Country and Corsica) it also translates into terrorist attacks. A considerable ...
