On April, RIAC’s presentation was held in Siberian Federal University, where Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov and Education Coordinator Ekaterina Chimiris told the faculty and students about RIAC activities, primarily in the education field. The attention-grabber was the Global Science program and opportunities for the University experts to take part in the RIAC events.
RIAC representatives also met Vice-Rector on Research and International Cooperation Sergey Verkhovets to discuss cooperation...
On April 16, 2013 RIAC program coordinators Aleksandr Eliseev and Vladimir Morozov took part in the conference
"Arab Middle East: international problems and development. Future for the secular forces in the states of the "Arab awakening"
which was organized by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Center of transformation of political systems studies affiliated with the School of world politics at Moscow State University (MSU).
Irina Zvyagekskaya...
RIAC President Igor Ivanov held a meeting with the director of the Federal Migration Service of Russia Konstantin Romodanovskiy on April 16, 2013. The latest RIAC papers on migration including the multivolume reader titled "
Migration in Russia. 2000 - 2012
" and the reference book titled "Migration field of Russia" were presented to the head of the Russian Migration Service.
Current and future plans for cooperation between the RIAC and the Federal Migration Service in the domain...
Analytical reports and projects of the Russian International Affairs Council have triggered keen interest in the Cuban foreign policy community. On April 9, Cuban Embassy in Moscow hosted RIAC Program Director
Ivan Timofeev
who met Jorge Casals Llano, Pro-Rector of the Higher School on Foreign Relations, and Jose Fernandez del Rio, Cuban Embassy Counselor on Trade and Economy.
The School’s research is focused on global processes and issues, i.e. the subject also covered by scores of RIAC’s...
On March 29, RIAC representatives Ekaterina Chimiris and Vladimir Morozov took part in the first session of the Commonwealth Civic Diplomatic Corps project on training public diplomacy activists for Eurasia. Held at the Russia Federation Civic Chamber, the event was attended by youths from non-commercial and nongovernmental organizations and universities engaged in humanitarian cooperation.
On behalf of RIAC, Ekaterina Chimiris described its activities with focus on educational programs and the website...
On invitation of former Federal Chancellor of Austria Wolfgang Schussel, RIAC President Igor Ivanov delivered a lecture at the Foreign Policy and United Nations Association of Austria, Vienna, and took part in the subsequent discussion and the question-and-answer session on acute international problems.
During the session the two leaders agreed on further cooperation of their organizations.
Lecture text
1. It is well known that journalists covering matters of international security and global politics...
On March 25, RIAC President Igor Ivanov made a welcoming address at the opening of the third session of the Trilateral Dialog on New Atlanticism conducted by the Atlantic Council of the United States at Moscow Carnegie Center for International Peace.
Ellen Tauscher, Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense at the State Department, also addressed the forum, whose March 26 meeting was attended by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Program Director Ivan Timofeev, RIAC member Dmitry...
The Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a Russian non-governmental organization, has ruled to elect RIAC President Igor Ivanov its member.
On March 26, Expert Board on the Arctic and Antarctic under the Chairman of the Federation Council was held in Moscow. Chaired by
Arthur Chilingarov
, Federation Council member and Russian President’s Special Envoy on International Cooperation in the Arctic and Antarctic, the event was attended by representatives of the legislative and executive bodies, scientific community, and key experts on development of the Arctic region.
The report of
Alexander Vylegzhanin
, Head of International Law...
During its 18-month-long close engagement in Central Asian matters, RIAC has conducted a series of specialized workshops and roundtables, set up a scholarly network and is currently organizing publication of an analytical report prepared by RAS Institute for Oriental Studies.
To this end, of particular importance seems the meeting between RIAC President Igor Ivanov, Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeyev with Bulat Sultanov, Director of Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic...
