Russia in Global Affairs

Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine has spelled the end of an epoch in the state of global affairs after President Vladimir Putin launched the action last week. Its impact will be felt for years to come, but Moscow has positioned itself to “become an agent of cardinal change for the whole world.”

Moscow’s experience with multilateral European security institutions in the first twenty years after the end of the Cold War led it to believe that both its material and ideational interests were better served outside of these structures.

On July 8, 2021, at 15:00 Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, will take part in an online discussion of European Policy Centre, titled “The Biden-Putin Summit: What Next and What Implications for the EU?”.

The furor that followed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s threat to sever Russia’s ties with the EU wasn’t really justified: there have been none to speak of since 2014.

The idea of the European destiny for Russia has apparently given way to the idea of cooperation, collaboration, cohabitation, but not integration, as was stated before, said Fedor Lukyanov at the session of Eurasian Online Seminar and China Seminar, which was organized the Department of International Relations and International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism of National Research University Higher School of Economics on November 27.

The Department of International Relations and International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism of National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) is holding a joint session of Eurasian Online Seminar and China seminar. Our guest on Friday, November 27, 2020 at 16:00 Moscow time will be a renowned Russian expert on international relations Fedor Lukyanov. The topic of his talk is “Russia - EU: How we learned to stop worrying and love the split.”

Nord Stream 2, which is designed to deliver Russian gas to Germany, has become a barometer of relations between Russia and the EU. Perhaps, the old model of selling natural gas to Europe belongs to the past, and Russia should move forward, reorienting towards other markets and new partners.

Russia cannot afford to treat Asia as a secondary priority, although it often still does. If Moscow continues in this way, Russia could find itself facing a creeping expansionism from the east. In any case, Russia’s former model of relations with the European Union has clearly ceased to function.

The situation with religious minorities in many respects reflects the logic of the political process of recent decades in Turkey. The social base and the core constituency of the ruling AKP are people of conservative views or even supporters of religious nationalism. For this part of society, nationalism and Islamic identity are interrelated and complementary notions.