Tag: Russia

Serbia/Russia – Serbia and Russia: Why Do We Know So Little About Each Other? (Boyan Bilbia, Valdai Discussion Club)

In May of this year, the inimitable Djordje Marjanović, a great performer of Serbian and Yugoslav, Soviet and Russian pop music, died. The coronavirus had cost...

Russia/Roscosmos/USA – Roscosmos Suffers From Russia’s Confrontation With the US (Pavel Luzin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian state-owned space corporation Roscosmos, confirmed during parliamentary hearings earlier this month that Western sanctions have damaged Russia’s...

Russia/Arctic Council – Moscow Ready to Exploit Increasingly Independent-Minded Greenland against West (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Russian government is already signaling that it plans an activist approach during its three-year term as chair of the Arctic Council (see EDM, April...

Iran/Russia/Turkey – Iran, Russia, and Turkey: A Eurasionist Model of Foreign Relations (Emil Avdaliani, BESA Center)

Trilateral Iran-Russia-Turkey Summit in Tehran, September 2018, image by Russian Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikimedia Commons EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Iran, Turkey, and Russia are building...

USA/Russia – Biden and Putin summit: What it means for future of nuclear nonproliferation (Pulkit Mohan, ORF)

The recent meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva comes as a welcome change to the extremely tense relationship between...

Russia/USA/China/India – Need to Talk: The Necessity of a Four-Way Dialogue Between Russia, the United States, China and India (Andrey Sushentsov, Valdai Discussion Club)

Global politics continues to be highly competitive. Fortunately for us, this competition is shifting from the military arena to one of ​​economic rivalry and...

Russia/Serbia/Balkans – Russia, Serbia and the Balkans: Prospects (Vladimir Kršljanin, Valdai Discussion Club)

Cooperation as the main paradigm of the new world, in which Russia and China are leading with their spiritual and moral values, undoubtedly awaits triumph, since it has...

USA/Russia – Putin’s Satisfaction With Geneva Summit Will Not Last (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Expectations regarding the summit between Presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva last Wednesday (June 16) were set quite low (see EDM, June 14, 17),...

USA/Russia – Takeaways from the Biden-Putin Summit (Himani Pant, VIF)

The downturn in the trajectory of US-Russia ties has become more pronounced since 2014. The differences over Ukraine, Middle East and others have been...

USA/Russia/Ukraine – Dopo l’incontro Biden-Putin, a che punto è l’Ucraina? (Dario Quintavalle, Formiche)

Il vertice ginevrino tra i presidenti Joe Biden e Vladimir Putin può essere riguardato come un successo o un fallimento, a seconda delle aspettative, modeste o eccessive, che...

USA/Russia – Biden meets Putin: America, Russia, and the return of diplomacy (Kadri Liik, ECFR)

Joe Biden is the fifth American president to hold a bilateral summit with Vladimir Putin. But he is likely the first post-cold war US...

Russia/Iran – Is Russia Going to Provide Iran a Spy Satellite and What Are the Implications? (Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, JCPA)

The Noor-1 satellite, launched atop an Islamic Revolutionary Guard rocket in April 2020. “A tumbling webcam.” (Tehran Times) According to a June 11, 2021, report in the Washington...

Afghanistan/Russia/USA – The Russian perspective on the Afghanistan situation post US withdrawal (Georgi Asatryan, ORF)

Afghanistan is not yet destined to become like Switzerland, and full-fledged peace in this state will not be a reality in the foreseeable future....

Russia – Russia and Its Neighbors, Thirty Years after the Fall (William Hill, Valdai Discussion Club)

1991 was a remarkable year.  The map of Europe was re-drawn, one of the two major protagonists in the Cold War disappeared, and the...

USA/Russia – Russia and the United States Must Cooperate to Achieve Their Own National Interests (Valdai Discussion Club)

On June 16, at 6:30 PM Moscow time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club conference hall will host a discussion dedicated to the summit meeting of...

USA/Russia – Russia and the US: The ‘Red Lines’ Summit (Jonathan Eyal, RUSI)

After a week of hugs and back-patting from the US’s closest allies in the G7, NATO and the EU, US President Joe Biden has...