... GLOBSEC attended by CEE presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers, U.S. and European top officials, business leaders, foreign policy experts and journalists.
RIAC was represented by its Program Director Ivan Timofeev, who took part in “Russia and the West” debate with Senior Vice President at the Center for European Policy Analysis Edward Lucas, Stratfor founder George Friedman and AFK Sistema Chief Economist Eugeny Nadorshin. The event program also included presentation of RIAC’s ...
... international security conference GLOBSEC 2015 in Bratislava that took place between June 19-21 is considered by many to be a kind of "Central European Munich." In attendance are presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers from across Central and Eastern Europe.
Also taking part are high-ranking officials from the U.S. State Department and the European Commission, as well as the heads of large defense companies, top international affairs experts and journalists.
Russia-West relations are the leitmotif of the forum. As expected, criticism of Russia is not in short supply. However, it is no longer 2014, when the political changes in the region were nigh on catastrophic.
The first impression from the 2015 meeting ...
Prospects for Stationing U.S. Heavy Weapons in Central and Eastern Europe
The “war of words” that is heating up between Russia and individual NATO countries in connection with plans to deploy significant military force in Europe is becoming increasingly strained.
At first glance, such militant rhetoric could be explained by the escalation of the conflict in South-East ...
... a state, I would say it is a brilliant idea! Not only that it absolutely matches thoughts of many people who reject to take part in elections due to their wider disagreement with the political system, or due to feeling of senselessness of voting in Russia, but also in the central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as a whole. People feel disconnection between themselves and politics and often feel much apathy towards any possible change. The tendency of deteriorating turnout in CEE countries seems to be a trend for the running decade,...
