Russia in Global Affairs

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Firdaus G. Vagapova

PhD in Philology
Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
Institute of International Relations
Department of International Relations, World Politics and Diplomacy
Associate Professor

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ORCID: 0000-0001-6876-7353
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E-mail: [email protected]
Address: 1/55 Pushkin Str., Kazan 420111, Russia

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01.01.2024

The Russia and Turkey Factors in Hungary-Serbia Tandem’s Policies

By acting in tandem and using the Russia and Turkey factors, Hungary and Serbia have managed to maintain relative internal political and economic stability and get additional support in preserving a flexible foreign policy. Besides, Budapest and Belgrade see Moscow and Ankara as potential “gateways” to promoting the eastern foreign policy vector.

Damir R. Islamov, Bulat G. Akhmetkarimov, Yakov Y. Grishin, Firdaus G. Vagapova

Tatyana Valovaya

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18.05.2005

The Post-Soviet Space in the Era of Pragmatism

In order to maintain and reinforce its positions in the post-Soviet territory, Russia must focus on enhancing the market-oriented and democratic transformations at home rather than defending that territory from "encroachment by alien powers". Russia must modernize its economic system and become fully integrated into the world economy.

Tatyana Valovaya

Tony van der Togt

MA in History, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands.

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20.02.2018

The EU Companies May Be Affected by the New US Sanctions

Is friendship possible when it comes to international relations and bilateral ties? Should a state consider interests of its counterpart when making big decisions? Even though the US and the EU are seen as an inseparable duo, at times their approaches to international challenges differ.

Tony van der Togt

06.06.2017

Bridging the Dividing Lines in Greater Eurasia

The EU could find a partner in China, which is pushing its New Silk Road initiative to include Central Asian states, Russia, and Eastern European states. This would connect the EU and the EEU in a new broader framework “from Lisbon to Shanghai,” stimulate inter-regional cooperation, and lead to greater prosperity across the whole of Eurasia.

Tony van der Togt

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist. He is the current finance minister of Greece.

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02.07.2015

Reaching For Our Revolvers: How a United Europe Defused its Culture and Divided its People

As the Iron Curtain was coming down, Krzysztof Kie?lowski’s Double Life of V?ronique (1991) not only elegantly captured the emotional impact of Europe’s post-war division but also conveyed a brooding angst about the promised “European Union.”

Yanis Varoufakis

Evgeni A. Varshaver

Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Regional Research and Urban Studies, RANEPA, (Russia)

Alexander Vasilyev

Research fellow at the Department of Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Ural-Volga region of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Lecturer at the Russian-Turkish Educational and Scientific Centre of the Russian State Humanitarian University.

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11.05.2023

Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Context of the Presidential Elections: Should We Expect Changes?

The institutions for the development of Russian-Turkish relations have been inscribed into the structure of bilateral relations since 2010. Regardless of who wins the elections, it is important to maintain a high level of Russian-Turkish relations and to revise those institutions that contribute to their development.

Alexander Vasilyev

Yevgeny Vassilyev

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24.03.2003

Central Asia at the Crossroads

Having established stronger relations with the United States and Europe, Russia now needs a reliable partner in the Far East that could contribute to its program of modernization. Japan is the best candidate for that.

Yevgeny Vassilyev

Yevgeny Velikhov

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21.03.2003

Energy Without Borders

Energy is the key to the development of Russia and the entire world, argue two outstanding physicists. They represent a new international prize intended to stimulate research for new energy technologies.

Zhores Alferov, Yevgeny Velikhov

Georgy Velyaminov

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08.03.2009

Legal Options for Russian-EU Cooperation

The gradual construction of a strategic alliance between Russia and the European Union must be a general strategic benchmark for Russia, which could be mentioned in the new basic agreement with the EU – provided, of course, that the EU duly reciprocate and that the present political situation becomes less acute.

Georgy Velyaminov

Olga Vendina

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10.02.2007

A Development Strategy for Russia’s Largest Cities

Proponents of globalization believe that Russia’s largest cities must follow in the footsteps of the ‘global cities’ and compete for command positions in the global economy, using the geopolitical and geo-economic advantages of their Eurasian location and Soviet-era heritage. This does not seem very realistic. Around Russia

Olga Vendina

Aleksandr A. Vershinin

PhD in History
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of History
Department of the History of Russia of the 20th-21st centuries
Assistant Professor;
Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (INION RAN), Moscow, Russia
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies
Senior Research Fellow

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ORCID: 0000-0001-5206-8013
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01.04.2024

Russian Strategic Culture in Retrospect

Russian strategic culture does not need a radical overhaul. Rather, the 20th century suggests that the Achilles’ heel of Russian strategy has been the desire to simplify it and to define strategic goals on the basis of political ones. Politics is closely linked to strategy, but they speak different languages.

Aleksandr A. Vershinin, Alexei A. Krivopalov

23.06.2020

The Empire and the Nation in the 20th Century

World War I is rightly called the suicide of Europe. It would be even more appropriate to consider it the suicide of empires. WWI graphically demonstrated that the major threat to any empire was not domestic nationalism, but another empire.

Aleksandr A. Vershinin

Andrey Vidishenko

Research Fellow at the Kiev Center for Political and Conflict Resolution Studies.

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11.10.2020

Alternative Orthodoxy. Unlearned Lessons

The atmosphere around “the Tomos and autocephaly” is no more than a means of manipulating the electorate, but the presidential team’s expectations of results were overly inflated.

Andrey Vidishenko

Matteo Villa

Matteo Villa, Research Fellow, European Programme, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)

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17.08.2015

Reforming the Global Economic Governance: “Public Goods” and the Role of Russia

The 2007-2008 global financial crisis marked a milestone in redefining the international balance of power.

Antonio Villafranca, Matteo Villa

Antonio Villafranca

Antonio Villafranca, Head of the European Programme, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)

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17.08.2015

Reforming the Global Economic Governance: “Public Goods” and the Role of Russia

The 2007-2008 global financial crisis marked a milestone in redefining the international balance of power.

Antonio Villafranca, Matteo Villa

Mikhail Vinogradov

Mikhail Vinogradov is head of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation.

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14.04.2013

Transition or Turning Point?

The elites tended to overestimate the potential and prospects of the protests; the opposition leaders underestimated the possible effects of their actions. This was the background against which political developments unfolded in 2012. And there is no reason to expect that anything will change fundamentally in the upcoming months.

Mikhail Vinogradov

07.10.2012

What’s Yonder?

Sooner or later the international agenda will include the possibility for re-orienting Russian foreign policy from servicing the interests of the state to lobbying for the positions of specific economic and political players.

Mikhail Vinogradov

Evgeny Vinokurov

Evgeny Vinokurov, Ph.D (Economics), is Director of the Center for Integration Studies of the Eurasian Development Bank.

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18.12.2014

A Mega Deal Amid a Relationship Crisis

Today even raising the question of an economic integration agreement between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union seems a non-starter. Recent economic sanctions have severely hurt economic cooperation between the two political entities. Yet the foundations of any new institution are frequently set out in times of crisis.

Evgeny Vinokurov

21.03.2014

The Birth of Eurasiaskepticism

Skepticism is normal in any project development and it will naturally continue to accompany the Eurasian integration project. Regular monitoring of public opinion will help uncover sore points. To curb skepticism, systemic preventive measures are needed, such as an earnest and well-balanced dialogue with the public and business community.

Evgeny Vinokurov

30.06.2013

Pragmatic Eurasianism

Eurasia is not the same as the post-Soviet space, and its borders cannot be regarded as fixed once and for all by the Soviet past. Whereas the post-Soviet space can indeed be the best region for integration in certain aspects, other options might envision a different combination of countries.

Evgeny Vinokurov

Anatoly Vishnevsky

1935–2021

Director of the Institute of Demography of the State University- Higher School of Economics. He holds a Doctorate in Economics.

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30.03.2016

Demography and Terrorist Threats

The problem is not rooted in Islam, it is rooted in the intractable economic and social problems faced by the majority of Third World countries. Moreover, the problem is multiplied by unprecedented population growth and an inevitable transformation of demographic processes.

Anatoly Vishnevsky

30.06.2013

Myths and Realities

Rejection of anti-migrant mythology should not lead to an underestimation of the risks associated with migration, but help develop a sober constructive policy that would minimize migration risks and maximize its benefits.

Anatoly Vishnevsky

02.03.2008

Multipolarity and Demography

An excessive rapprochement with growing China, which lacks resources of its own, may impose “allied obligations” on Russia, which can ultimately result in the limitation of its rights to its own resources and to territories where they are located. Moscow will be able to successfully defend its interests only by relying on the solidarity of countries of the North, which are in the same demographic boat with it.

Anatoly Vishnevsky

Alexei Vlassov

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16.11.2008

The End of Multi-Vector Policies

The territory of the former Soviet Union has completely lost its former contours and has turned into a field for an open struggle involving major players. The inter-state relations slide into total chaos and there are no clear rules of conduct.

Alexei Vlassov

Yevgeny G. Vodolazkin

Writer

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13.12.2021

The Dialectics of Confrontation

Thirty years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, we have moved towards a world in which all countries are becoming protective of their economies and trying to pass the burden of declining outputs and unemployment onto others.

Yevgeny G. Vodolazkin, Ivan Krastev, Kishore Mahbubani, Ilter Turan, Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Wu Enyuan, Robert Legvold

Ruslan Volkov

Ruslan Volkov worked at the Russian Embassy in Cairo and the Foreign Ministry central office in the 2000s; he is now working in the oil and gas sector

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08.04.2015

Abstention and its Consequences

Pursuit of immediate goals can limit future foreign policy capabilities that can only exist if there is a strong economy and political ambitions are buttressed by financial and economic resources.

Alexander Vysotsky, Ruslan Volkov

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