- 10:00 31/08/2010
Angela Stent, participant of the upcoming meeting of the Valdai Discussion club, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, dwells on the influence of history on Russian future development in an interview for RIA Novosti.
- 09:32 31/08/2010
Projects developed in some Anglo-Saxon circles, whose goal is the strategic separation of Russia and Ukraine, have failed. They were unrealistic and dangerous, both for the two countries and the rest of Europe. It is obvious that for historical reasons, Ukraine will always occupy a special place in Russia’s political vision.
- 09:17 31/08/2010
In advance of the seventh regular meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, which is to be held in St. Petersburg, Kizhi, Valaam and Moscow in the first decade of September , Richard Pipes, an American Professor of Russian History, gave an interview for RIA Novosti where he explained his views on the influence of history and geography on the Russian political system. According to his opinion Russia has its own, different from Western civilization, development path.
- 08:50 31/08/2010
In an interview with RIA Novosti, former Polish Prime Minister (2001-2004) Leszek Miller says that Russia and Europe need to develop their relations gently. Mr Miller is to take part in the forthcoming meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. In Europe, they expect Russia to continue promoting its market economy and democracy, but understand that Russia should not blindly follow European traditions, Leszek Miller said.
- 08:42 31/08/2010
For several centuries, everyone in Russia – from great minds to cooks – has been discussing the same issue: should Russia look to Europe or Asia? The world’s geopolitical structure has changed in this time, and yet we still have not resolved this issue. Xing Guangcheng, an expert on Russia and a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, who will be attending the upcoming seventh meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, shared his views on this question with RIA Novosti.
- 08:33 31/08/2010
It is high time Russia and the European Union started discussing a possible “reset” in their relations now that Russia has successfully “reset” its relations with the United States, believes Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform.
- 08:23 31/08/2010
The next meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, taking place in early September in St. Petersburg, Kizhi, Valaam and Moscow, will provide its foreign participants with a truly unique chance of “immersion into the Russian dimension”
- 17:06 30/08/2010
The Valdai International Discussion Club will hold its seventh regular conference from August 31 through September 7, which will focus on the topic “Russia: History and Future Development.”
- 13:41 27/08/2010
The global policy forum “The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency” will take place in early September in Yaroslavl. Nikolai Zlobin, a prominent political scientist and director of the Russia and Eurasia Project at the World Security Institute (USA) will attend the forum. In an interview with RIA Novosti, he spoke about his expectations for the event.
- 14:03 19/08/2010
The law enforcement practice has not improved. Half-hearted steps in this direction have been ineffective and contradictory (as with the amendments designed to reduce the arrests of business people). But things have deteriorated in other directions. The adoption of the amendments to expand the FSB powers bears this out.
- 11:57 12/08/2010
A series of amendments to the law on Russia's main domestic security agency, better known by its Russian initials FSB, was signed into law last month. These amendments codify a practice that security agencies all over the world typically like to shroud in secrecy--the surveillance of private citizens who are deemed potential threats to national security.
- 17:49 11/08/2010
Even though U.S. radar systems are likely to be deployed in South-Eastern Europe as part of a missile defense shield, there should be no threat for Russia if the Americans obtain some additional information seeing as they already safely monitor Russian territory from space.
- 17:29 11/08/2010
If Hiroshima and Nagasaki vaccination had not occurred, a nuclear war could have happened. This brutal and bloody vaccination ensured that the Cold War never escalated into a hot war, which would have inevitably turned into a thermonuclear one.
- 17:30 10/08/2010
Compared to the Cold War, when there was serious concern about the possibility of a nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, today it’s very hard to see a major nuclear exchange or nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia, or between Russia and China or the United States and China.
- 08:30 09/08/2010
With the European Union's adoption of tough sanctions last week, the west has finally succeeded in gaining leverage over Tehran. Reports this week of an assassination attempt against President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, whether accurate or not, will augment that leverage by causing jitters throughout the Iranian elite.
- 10:57 30/07/2010
Several developments and events of recent time make me raise, before myself and readers, the issue of one of the main roots of our problems – our inability to overcome the legacy of the horrible-for-Russia 20th century.
- 10:49 30/07/2010
The bill on President Dmitry Medvedev's desk that expands the powers of the KGB's domestic successor would seem to confirm our worst fears about Russia's political development. But the story of how it got there shows that Russia's political transformation is still unfolding and reminds us that the United States has a role to play in shaping it.
- 10:41 28/07/2010
The “Yeltsin's legacy” still determines the character of Russian-American relations. The Soviet collapse and the reduction of Russian resources encourage Russia to integrate into the new world order. But Russia has Soviet strategic potential. That is why Russia sometimes is doomed to be in the opposition to the contemporary world order.
- 10:28 22/07/2010
Medvedev’s drive for innovation in Russia and his recent trip to the United States suggest that Russia will be exploring new frontiers. Italy might not be the first country to come to mind when discussing high-tech production
