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Sergei Ryabkov: “BRICS is a catalyst for global governance reform”

May 23, 2012 Katerina Labetskaya, VIP Premier
Opinions about BRICS as a factor in global politics still vary among political scientists. What prospects does Moscow see for BRICS? VIP Premier discussed that with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov

G8 focus on economy and security

May 22, 2012 Vladimir Kuzmin, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
The G8 summit indicated that Moscow and the West will work together to resolve global problems

Russian observers go to Syria

May 18, 2012 Igor Kryuchkov, Moskovskiye Novosti
But small number of participants sends mixed signals to the international community

Russia’s balancing act

May 14, 2012 Vasily Kashin, Vedomosti.ru
It would be wrong to see Putin’s refusal to attend the G8 summit at Camp David as a sign of an anti-Western turn in Russia’s policy and a change of its priorities

Back to the future: Putin 2018

May 14, 2012 Fyodor Lukyanov, Ogoniok magazine
A utopian political experiment with an uneasy beginning and a happy ending. Fyodor Lukyanov takes a look at May 7, 2018

Medvedev to stand in for Putin at G8

May 11, 2012 Lev Makedonov, Gazeta.ru, Kommersant
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will be too busy to attend the upcoming G8 summit at Camp David as U.S. President Barack Obama makes the same claim about the APEC summit in September

Maintaining weight

May 10, 2012 Fyodor Lukyanov, Gazeta.ru
There are few statesmen in the world today who can claim to be themselves a brand. Vladimir Putin is one of them

Joint missile defense is limited to data sharing

May 4, 2012 Ruslan Pukhov, The Moscow Times
There is a huge amount of mutual mistrust between Russia and the United States on missile defense. Nevertheless, there are still several possibilities for cooperation on the project

Europe’s shale gas is not a threat for Russia

April 25, 2012 Colin Smith
This month, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the Russian parliament that the country needs “to rise to the challenge” posed to global natural gas markets by the recent increase in production of shale gas in the US

Russia and NATO in hot water

April 25, 2012 Viktor Litovkin, Yevgeny Shestakov
While NATO and Russia still view each other warily over missile defense, Russian experts - Victor Litovkin and Yevgeny Shestakov - don't see any significant progress in resolving this stand-off and warn against starting another arm race

A cold region heats up

April 24, 2012 Ilya Kramnik
Global warming is making the polar regions of the Earth more accessible, and while the possibility of armed conflict is limited, all regional players are preparing for such a scenario

Students launched the second round of the U.S.-Russia reset

April 24, 2012 Pavel Koshkin
Russia and American participants in the 2012 SURF conference recently completed the second of two sessions at Stanford University

Syrian opposition sees little progress in Moscow

April 23, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko
Russia is still trying to establish a dialogue with Syria’s opposition

Russia and Africa need to look for ways to engage

April 23, 2012 Kester Kenn Klomegah, BuzinessAfrica.com
Cold War and colonial-era stereotypes have hindered the development of political and economic ties between Russia and Africa, but that could be changing

Eighth grade foreign policy

April 23, 2012 Fyodor Lukyanov
Will Russia’s relations with the West under Vladimir Putin consist of doing business with people he likes and relying on Dmitry Medvedev to pass notes?

Moscow may skip NATO summit

April 20, 2012 Nikolaus von Twickel, The Moscow Times
NATO and Russia are facing new dissonances because the Western alliance's upcoming Chicago summit is likely to be held without Moscow's participation

Strange bedfellows escaping the unipolar world

April 19, 2012 Dmitry Babich
Can BRICS, an organization uniting such different countries as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, become a player in international politics?

Wikileaks makes its debut on Kremlin-backed channel

April 17, 2012 RIA Novosti
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange kicked off his new career as an interviewer of “terrible radicals” on Kremlin-funded RT TV on Tuesday by hosting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah for a 45-minute discussion

More talks on Iran to start in Istanbul

April 17, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko
Discussions between Iran and members of the UN Security Council are set to begin again. Is there any indication things will change this time around?

NATO owes the UN an explanation

April 16, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko
Before withdrawing from Afghanistan, Russia wants NATO to describe how the mission it carried out under the UN mandate has been fulfilled
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