Russia in Global Affairs

Director of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is Doctor of History and Professor at the Far Eastern Federal University.

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28.11.2017

Looking into the Future: Russia and Asia in the Next 20 Years

The Asian center of economic growth will move to the south, and the developed countries will try to adapt foreign labor migration to the needs of high-tech production.

Viktor Larin

15.05.2017

One Belt, One Road. Russia and China Can Solve Political Problems through Economy

On May 14-15 Beijing hosted The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech spoke about prospects for cooperation with Russia in the implementation of the Chinese New Silk Road economic initiative.

Viktor Larin

22.09.2015

Staying On Track

A trilateral dialogue between Russia, China, and the United States can become the core of a new security system in the Pacific, with other countries and territories in the region gradually joining in. Multilateral cooperation in the North Pacific is a fundamental objective. It will require a transition from the bloc system and allied relations to a multilateral format.

Viktor Larin

Marina Larionova

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13.05.2007

Monitoring Compliance with St. Petersburg Summit Commitments

Over 32 years of its history, the G7/G8 has expanded both its agenda and institutional system, and is now appreciated as an instrument of deliberation, direction-giving and decision-making on global governance issues. It has also become a subject for criticism and reform proposals. The critique mainly focuses on the forum’s representativeness, legitimacy and effectiveness.

Marina Larionova

Marlene Laruelle

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Research Professor, Director, Institutefor European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia

Murat Laumulin

Murat Laumulin is a chief researcher at the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies in Almaty. He holds a Doctorate in Political Science.

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07.10.2012

Virtual Security of Central Asia

If the new/old Russian leadership pursues integration in the military-political sphere with the same zeal as it did in the establishment of the Customs Union, the Common Economic Space and the Eurasian Union, hopefully there will be progress in the CSTO’s transformation, as well.

Murat Laumulin

25.03.2012

Returning to a Place That No Longer Exists

Entire generations of people born in the former Soviet Union would wholeheartedly support unification, but a logical question arises: With whom are we going to unite? A country that has assimilated the worst from Western capitalism, rampant with xenophobia and domestic racism, and which is suffering from a demographic and technological decline? A country whose economy is controlled by the mafia and oligarchs?

Murat Laumulin

Anton Lavrov

Anton Lavrov is an independent aviation analyst and an authoritative Russian researcher of the 2008 Russian-Georgian War. Originally published in: “Tanks of August,” Center of Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), 2009.

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09.04.2010

After the War

Since the time when the Russian military bases were deployed in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the number of conflicts and cross-border skirmishes between Georgia and the new states, which it refuses to recognize, has decreased, and their intensity has declined greatly.

Anton Lavrov

Sergey Lavrov

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

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24.12.2019

The World at a Crossroads and a System of International Relations for the Future

Will the multipolar world continue to take shape through cooperation and harmonization of interests or through confrontation and rivalry? This depends on all of us. It is now important to start a strategic dialogue on concrete threats and risks and to seek consensus on a commonly acceptable agenda.

Sergey Lavrov

20.09.2019

World at a Crossroads and a System of International Relations for the Future

Next year we will celebrate two great and interconnected anniversaries – the 75th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the UN. Reflecting on the spiritual and moral significance of these landmark events, one needs to bear in mind the enormous political meaning of the Victory that ended one of the most brutal wars in the history of mankind.

Sergey Lavrov

03.07.2018

It is not Russia that is shaping this world order, it is history.

Foreign Minister S.Lavrov’s interview with Channel 4, Moscow, June 29, 2018

Sergey Lavrov

Robert Legvold

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

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22.01.2018

Trump’s First Year in Office: the Impact Is Profound and Controversial

Donald Trump enters the second year of his presidency as one of the most controversial politicians in the US history. Opinions vary greatly, but one thing is clear: the past year has been marked by fundamental changes in the United States’ domestic and foreign policy, with many results of the previous administration virtually wiped out.

Robert Legvold, Edward Nicolae Luttwak

06.06.2017

Into the Unknown

Russian and U.S. leaders have choices of far greater portent than either appears to realize. Narrow preoccupations, occluded politics, and the ascendance of small-minded thinking on both sides at all levels may be inescapable. If so, the great powers will again sleepwalk through defining moments of history—and pay a price.

Robert Legvold

11.04.2017

Into the Unknown: U.S.-Russian Relations Unhinged

If the larger picture defies prediction, the immediate future is scarcely more transparent. In the U.S. case, the known unknowns are numerous. They begin with the question of how much deck furniture Trump is willing to overturn in order to pursue an “America First” strategy.

Robert Legvold

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Jean-Pierre Lehmann is Emeritus Professor, IMD, and Founder of the Evian Group, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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30.06.2013

Global Transformation: The Eurasian Open Economic Space

The profound transformations occurring in the global economy are inevitably causing disruption, confusion and tensions. The proposal for the establishment of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the U.S. and the EU might seriously exacerbate the situation and lead to the establishment of rival economic blocs.

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

02.03.2008

Is Free Trade Heading for Eclipse?

Rising insecurity, the uncharted and seemingly turbulent waters in which the global economic ship is heading, is occurring amidst frightening environmental degradation and climate change, apprehensions related to “identification” and immigration, the steep decline of the U.S. and the quagmire of the Middle East, the seemingly daunting industrial and financial muscle of China, rising inequality and high levels of poverty, and the fear of possible devastating pandemics.

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Vitaly Leibin

Editor-in-chief of the Russian Reporter magazine.

Stanislaw Lem

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10.08.2004

The Times of Mars

U.S. President George W. Bush is planning to return the Americans to the Moon, and then on to Mars. But alas, the grandiose plans are less a daring desire to explore the universe than a cunning political reckoning and pre-election move.

Stanislaw Lem

Maria Lenchenko

Political analyst.

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01.06.2020

THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA AND AUTOCRACY FOR THE XXI CENTURY

Russia of the future is a social Empire based on the principle of “autocracy”, not in the sense of restoring the monarchy, but in the sense of true people power, where we (Russians) led by a strong leader hold ourselves. The constitutional provision on people power is implemented through the unity of the vertical of power of the popularly elected national leader and the horizontal of power resulting from effective local self-administration. Elites are nationalized, bureaucracy is put in the service of the Fatherland and does not have political powers.

Andrej Ilnitskij, Maria Lenchenko

Laszlo Lengyel

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24.09.2011

The Last Peaceful Days?

The economic and political crisis of 2008-2010 has had an unexpected impact by calling into question the success of the third wave of democratization in Europe.

Laszlo Lengyel

Mark Leonard

Co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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09.09.2016

Europe Seen From the Outside — the British View

A political counter-revolution against the European Union is underway. Brexit is likely to be seen in hindsight as just the first of many tremors leading up to a larger political earthquake that will be felt all over the European continent.

Mark Leonard

Sergey Leonidov

Church historian.

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11.10.2020

Baltic Rehearsal

In the 1990s Constantinople challenged the Russian Orthodox Church in Estonia. It was then that the contours of the ethno-phyletism Constantinople style became visible. In the longer term, they would serve as the basis for the Phanar’s policies in Ukraine.

Sergey Leonidov, Igor Prekup

Alexei Levinson

Alexei Levinson is head of the Sociocultural Research Department at the Levada Center.

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27.03.2011

A Smaller Empire?

Among the respondents favoring Chechen secession only a very small number believe that Chechnya should be entitled to independence by virtue of its right to self-determination. Remarkably, these respondents have Russia’s interests in mind (“It would be better for Russia”), not Chechnya’s.

Alexei Levinson

Alexandr Libman

Alexander Libman is a professor of international political economy at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management; a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds a Doctorate in Economics.

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24.06.2012

Post-Soviet Integration Breakthrough

In the medium term, the Common Economic Space will face the dilemma of either “enlargement” or “intensification,” which is well known to Europeans. One of the main reasons behind the Customs Union’s success is that it has focused on a clear and rather narrow objective.

Evgeny Vinokurov, Alexandr Libman

Keir Lieber

Anatol Lieven

Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. He is the author among other books of America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism.

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03.09.2020

The Geopolitics of Nationalism

What does international cooperation look like during the triumph of national interests? Is it possible to realize these interests without interaction? We turned to Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, and Anatol Lieven, Professor of Georgetown University in Qatar for their insight.

Andrey Kortunov, Anatol Lieven, Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Sean Guillory

09.04.2020

The Coronavirus Holds Up a Mirror to Existing Societies: What Will They See?

The Coronavirus will make our societies gloomy. The economic crisis may drive them mad. The pandemic may in some ways help create a psychological and cultural basis for extremism by extinguishing the naïve liberal optimism about continual human improvement that has characterized the West for generations, and in a different form is also held by the Chinese Communist state. That is fine if our societies become more serious.

Anatol Lieven

03.07.2018

Peace in Afghanistan: The Duty of Afghanistan’s Region

In the short term, the war in Afghanistan will be chiefly not a military struggle but a test of American political stamina and of the capacity of the Afghan elites to maintain a minimally consensual state in Kabul.

Anatol Lieven

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