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Tag: EU-Russia
“World politics in 2021: Infected by rivalry”, Sven Biscop (Egmont, Belgium)
If China is rising, it must be seeking world domination. If Russia is declining, it must be plotting revenge. The […]
Read more“Russian political war: moving beyond the hybrid”, Mark Galeotti (IIR, Czech Republic)
Mark Galeotti, Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid New book by Mark Galeotti cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia’s […]
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“Will Russia Return to Europe?”, Andrey Kortunov (CIDOB, Spain)
Andrey Kortunov, Will Russia Return to Europe?, February 2019 Could Russia return to Europe in the foreseeable future? Not in […]
Read more“EU-Russia Energy Relations – A Discursive Approach”, Lukáš Tichý (IIR, Czech Republic)
The new book by Lukáš Tichý, Head of the IIR Centre for Energy Policy, published by Springer explores the timely […]
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Petra Roter participated at the launch of “Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect” (CIR, Slovenia)
Assoc. Prof. Petra Roter participated at the launch of an edited volume titled “Russia and the European Court of Human […]
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“A Soviet project tempts Europe…again”, John Szabó (IWE, Hungary)
All eyes were on the 2018 NATO summit, as President Trump was poised to wreak havoc during his time in […]
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“EU-Russia Relations in the New Putin Era: Not Much Light at the End of the Tunnel”, András Rácz and Kristi Raik (EVI, Estonia)
On 7 May 2018, Russia entered the fourth and probably final presidency of Vladimir Putin. This was preceded by a […]
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“The US-Europe vs. Russia Triangle”, Eugene B. Rumer (IAI, Italy)
Russia’s relations with Europe and the United States are at their worst since the end of the Soviet Union. Russian […]
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“EU member states and “Russia: National and European debates in an evolving international environment”, Marco Siddi (FIIA, Finland)
In March 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, relations between Moscow and the European Union precipitated into their deepest crisis since […]
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The Price of the Russian Elections: Easy to achieve, Putin’s victory will have huge costs, Arkady Moshes (FIIA)
Voters will give Vladimir Putin the mandate to continue great power politics. This does not augur well for any deconfliction […]
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“Harsh expectations versus a modest reality – Economic relations between the Visegrad countries and Russia surrounding the Ukrainian crisis.”, András Deák, Csaba Weiner, Simona Blašková, Barbora Chrzová, Dušan Fischer, Jonáš Syrovátka, Jakub Tomášek, Ernest Wyciszkiewicz (IWE, Hungary)
Prague Security Studies Institute, Prague. (2017) With the beginning of the millennium, the Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary […]
Read more“The Russian Su-57 and the ‘Fifth-Generation’ Challenge”, Michael Eric Lambert (IIR, Prague)
Fifth-generation aircraft – characterised by being stealthy, manoeuvrable, and multi-role and possessing advanced avionics and data processing capacities – are […]
Read more“The European Union must effectively develop energy relations with global producers and partners”, Lukáš Tichý, Nikita Odintsov, Jan Mazač, Jan Prouza, a Michaela Prouzová (IIR, Prague)
There are almost no oil or gas resources in the EU. To strengthen its energy security, the EU has taken […]
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“The “combination”: an instrument in Russia’s information war in Catalonia, Mira Milosevich-Juaristi, (Elcano Institute)
During the independence referendum in Catalonia, Russia used the ‘combination’ (kombinaciya), an operation can integrate instruments such as cyber warfare, […]
Read moreControlling Chaos: How Russia Manages Its Political War in Europe, Mark Galeotti (IIR, Czech Republic)
This new report by Mark Galeotti on how Russia manages its political war in Europe was written for the European […]
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‘Hacking’ into the West: Russia’s ‘Anti-Hegemonic’ Drive and the Strategic Narrative Offensive, Andriy Tyushka and James Rogers (College of Europe Natolin)
Contrary to the narrative in much of politics and academia, Russia’s alienation from the West did not start in 2014 […]
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The Antitrust dispute between the European Commission and Gazprom: Towards an amicable deal, Marco Siddi (FIIA, Finland)
The European Commission has endorsed Gazprom’s commitments to revise its monopolistic practices in East-Central Europe, which would allow a better […]
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