Может показаться, что Россия в равной...

It may appear that Russia is equally dissatisfied with both Western security’s presence in and its departure from Afghanistan planned for 2014, but whether the Western withdrawal is seen as more of a gain a loss depends on how Moscow itself...

In the past decade Russia set a strategic goal: to develop the Eastern vector of its energy policy and strengthen oil and gas cooperation with the Asia-Pacific countries. While dialogue on gas with China was stalled, Rosneft, the country's...

В прошлом десятилетии Россия поставила...

Активное развитие российско-турецкого...

Deepening energy ties between Turkey and Russia prompt questions as to the balance of power between the two countries, with the former relying heavily on the latter for its energy needs. In light of Europe's diversification efforts and of tensions...

The contest for control of Russia’s oil industry has been an integral feature of the country’s politics ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Therefore, an assessment of political elite dynamics and the competition for control...

Борьба за активы нефтяной...

L’article analyse les impacts envisageables de l’adhésion de la Russie à l’OMC pour son secteur agricole. Il met en évidence que les exploitations agricoles seront différemment touchées par ce...

Consistent attempts by the US and NATO to cooperate on ballistic missile defenses have long divided Russia and the West. The failed talks on this issue have built a foundation of frustration that has reinforced the general lack of trust among the...

Вопрос противоракетной обороны (ПРО) уже...

Kazakhstan’s economic integration with Russia and Belarus has been advancing at break-neck speed. In October 2007, these countries signed a treaty on the creation of the Customs Union (CU), in July 2010 the unified Customs Code went into...

Russia is now a member of World Trade Organization (WTO) and of the Eurasian Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Questions remain over how this new global and regional integration will affect the competitive environment of the...

Данная работа посвящена проблеме...

Pendant la période de transition, les entreprises russes se sont massivement désintéressées des coopérations avec les universités. Déçues par le système éducatif traditionnel, les...

The interplay of the foreign, domestic and military dimensions of Russia’s Arctic policy is characterized by peculiar incompatibilities. The position of power secured by the military superiority and ambitious modernization of strategic forces...

Внешнее, внутреннее и военное измерения...

The Russian Federation is shaping its religious diplomacy (i.e., in brief, the use of the religious factor in foreign policy) and exercises it with a growing efficiency. This is, to a certain degree, a consequence of processes taking place in...

After serious decline in the 1990s, Ukraine’s economy finally started its recovery and systemic reform in early 2000. While the economy rapidly grew by 2008, its transformation remained unfinished. Ukraine has three possible roads to...

Le contexte international et l’entrée de la Russie dans un cycle électoral placent le Web russe sous tension. D’un côté, la vie politique russe est de plus en plus façonnée par les nouveaux...

В декабре 2011 года Москва и...

As Moscow and the WTO Member States have finally established terms on which Russia will accede to the organization, thoughts turn to the impact of this historic event and the potential for it to play a role in the modernization of the...

Cette monographie s'inscrit dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Zoom sur les universités russes », qui analyse une série d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur russe (EES). Elle est consacrée...

В статье анализируется влияние...

The article studies the effect of the Internet on Russian society in the 2000s, as well as the complex relations between the Internet, groups of digital activists and the manipulative state. The Internet creates new spaces for politicians and...

Italy is one of Russia's most important partners in Europe. They have established extensive cooperation in practically all areas: economic cooperation is at a very high level, and on most issues of world politics Russia and Italy's positions are...

Италия является одним из наиболее...

Начиная с лета 2009 года в восточной части...

The crisis in the North Caucasus has had a negative impact across all of Russia. Its immediate consequences include instability in the country's southern regions, interethnic tensions and terrorist attacks that regularly occur not only in the...

Кризис на Северном Кавказе оказывает...

Since summer 2009, instability in the eastern part of the North Caucasus has escalated, a security threat against which the Russian leadership cannot find a strategy. Despite a maximum-intensity counterinsurgency campaign, the rebels have been able...

Cette monographie s'inscrit dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Zoom sur les universités russes » qui vise à analyser une série d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur russe (EES). Elle est...

Since winning the 2010 presidential elections in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych has worked hard to repair Kyiv's relationship with Moscow. Early in his tenure, Yanukovych signed a package of treaties which appeared to exchange a reduction in the price...

Кремль с большим вниманием следит за...

The Russian Internet, which has undergone considerable development in the last decade, remains subject to constant scrutiny from the Kremlin. Digital technology has posed a challenge to the governance and political legitimacy of the ruling class,...

Для понимания корпоративной коррупции в...

To understand corporate corruption in Russia and to develop both anti-corruption policies at the macro level and anti-corruption strategies at the enterprise level effectively we need to move beyond the predominant corruption paradigm and to...

В статье рассматриваются вопросы...

This article addresses the key features and the state of research in Russian higher education establishments. It examines measures taken to support research in universities and to integrate R&D with higher education since the fall of the Soviet...

This essay examines Chinese attitudes toward Russia as a great power, neighbor, partner and competitor. China is in the midst of one of the most remarkable transformations in history.  During this dramatic period, the relationship with Russia...

Since 2009 the influence of immigrant party Israel Beiteinu on foreign and security policy in Israel has grown. The party won 15 seats in the 2009 parliamentary elections and its leader, Avigdor Lieberman, became the Minister of Foreign...

Влияние партии иммигрантов «Наш дом...

Russia's foreign policy towards Syria and the Greater Middle East is generally not aggressive. It is a defensive policy aimed mainly at developing its traditional political and economic interests in the region and protecting its Southern borders. It...

Российская внешняя политика по...

"En investissant dans les outils du « soft power » et de la « public diplomacy », la Russie souhaite, d'une part, améliorer son image internationale et, d'autre part, maintenir son rôle de puissance...

Cette monographie s'inscrit dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Zoom sur les universités russes » qui vise à analyser une série d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur russe (EES). Elle est...

Российские исследователи, такие как...

Russian writers like Dmitri Trenin have called developing the Russian Far East (RFE) a civilizational task. At the same time Moscow has acknowledged that developing the RFE is the foundation for any successful Russian claim to an independent great...

Администрации Барака Обамы и Дмитрия...

The administrations of Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev have committed to a process of "resetting" US-Russian relations on a foundation of mutual interests and pragmatic collaboration. In the year since the agenda was originally articulated the...

Отношения между Россией и Саудовской...

Relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia have never been as friendly as they were in 2009. After years of tension over Saudi support for Islamist fundamentalism in the post-Soviet space and Russia's proximity to Iran and Iraq, Moscow and Riyadh...

По мере затихания отзвуков холодной...

International relations in Europe are now entering a period of flux as the legacy of the cold war wanes and the "outsider" countries, notably Russia and Turkey, are rethinking their mutual relations as well as their place in the world. The current...

Недавняя эволюция российской внешней...

It is now necessary to ask ourselves what place Europe holds in Russian foreign policy, given the recent developments in the latter. Indeed, Europe is by far Russia's most important partner. Nevertheless, Russia is developing a discourse of emerging...

Не являясь ни агрессивной, ни...

Russia's foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East is not an aggressive, anti-Western one, but a defensive policy aimed more at protecting Russian economic interests, working with virtually any government that opposes Sunni radicalism, and...

Новое повышение цен на нефть позволило...

Even though Russia's economy has returned to growth-on the back of higher oil prices-the financial crisis of 2008-09 will continue to reverberate across Russian politics and foreign policy. Domestically, the crisis has called into question the...

Cette monographie s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche, « Zoom sur les universités russes », qui vise à analyser une série d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur russe....

Over the past decade, there has been much talk about a new world order, in which American "unipolarity" would be superseded by more equal arrangements between the great powers. One such idea is a return to the Russia-China-US triangle. In truth,...

На протяжении последнего десятилетия...

Утвердившаяся в отношениях России и...

The firmly entrenched stagnation of relations between Russia and the European Union is leading to mutual dissatisfaction and even distrust. The failure of current institutions and practices to adapt to the challenges of the international political...

As China's role in shaping the world grows, Russia is increasingly unable to resist its neighbor's economic and political influence. As a result, Russia's China discourse has evolved from the one dominated by Westernizers to one largely controlled...

По мере возрастания роли Китая на...

Cette monographie s'inscrit dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Zoom sur les universités russes » qui vise à analyser une série d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur russe. La stratégie du...

Cette monographie s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche « Zoom sur les universités russes » qui vise à analyser une série d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur russe. Le Haut...

После вмешательства Евросоюза в...

After the European Union's intervention in the August 2008 Russo-Georgian war, the EU has stepped up the visibility of its involvement in the South Caucasian state. Its political, economic and manpower engagement is now vital to the country's...

Российское вооружённое вторжение в...

Russia's military intervention in Georgia in August 2008 sent a shock wave across the post-Soviet space, particularly the republics to the west and south of Russia. In December 2008, the European Union formalized the Eastern Partnership initiative,...

Швеция и Россия - близкие соседи с...

La Suède et la Russie sont deux voisins proches aux relations compliquées. Les deux pays entretiennent des rapports politiques stables et accroissent leurs échanges économiques et culturels, surtout au niveau...

Россия стоит перед лицом...

Russia is facing demographic challenges that are common to all developed countries, but significantly aggravated by a range of historic circumstances that have become highly unfavorable over the course of many demographic processes. Among the main...

Грузинский военный конфликт 2008 года стал...

The 2008 war in Georgia is but a milestone on the downward curve in NATO-Russia relations, one that has been characterized by misunderstandings, misplaced expectations and missed opportunities. This is not a new Cold War, but there is an obvious...

Russia's policy in Latin America is not a new policy but reflects long-term aspirations to assert itself as a global power and advance the idea of a multipolar world.  It is a fundamentally geopolitical approach directed against the US with an...

Barack Obama's recent overtures toward Russia show a desire to break away from the Bush years, which were characterized by a profound deterioration in American-Russian relations. To gauge the chances of success for this openness, we must reexamine...

Поворот Барака Обамы к России отражает...

Российская политика в Латинской Америке...

Paradoxically, Russia's military success during the "five day war" in the South Caucasus in August 2008 highlighted the deplorable state of its conventional armed forces, weakened by years of underfunding, failed reforms and declining social...

Победа в Южной Осетии в августе 2008 года...

China has become an important provider of development assistance (through grants and soft loans) to Central Asian states. The focus of this study is the two states of the region most in need of aid: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The paper discusses the...

Китай становится важным поставщиком...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the threat of Islamist terrorism in Central Asia, through analysis of what could be termed a real Al Qaeda-like threat: the IMU (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan) and its splinter cells, which seem to be the real...

Проблема исламистского терроризма в...

Since 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has played an important role in the improvement of Russian-Chinese relations. It has proven valuable for the expression of Moscow and Beijing's common interests at a regional level. However,...

Шанхайская организация сотрудничества...

This article outlines the developments in Russian-American cooperation in the area of higher education since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It reveals the fundamental problems that have arisen in this partnership and draws conclusions about the...

В статье подводятся итоги развития...

Европейская политика соседства (ЕПС)...

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is at a crossroads. Over the course of France's EU Presidency the Union of the Mediterranean will be launched and the Polish-Swedish proposal for an "Eastern Partnership" will be elaborated upon. These...

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a shipper-owned oil pipeline carrying Caspian oil to Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossyisk, remains to this day the only oil export pipeline on Russian territory that is not under the control of the state...

Каспийский трубопроводный консорциум...

The higher education reform underway in Russia is part of a much broader state reform project. Launched in 2004 at the start of Vladimir Putin's second term, this "administrative reform" grants the federal state the means to reclaim the public...

Russia's higher education (HE) reform, begun 15 years ago, was intended to provide a response to the challenges of the new post-industrial, high-tech economic development model. During the course of the reform, many of the negative features...

In terms of higher education, Russia displays indicators worthy of enthusiasm: a high level of people benefiting from higher education, an increase in the number of students and the multiplication in the number of higher education establishments....

In terms of higher education, Russia displays indicators worthy of enthusiasm: a high level of people benefiting from higher education, an increase in the number of students and the multiplication in the number of higher education establishments....

Осуществляемая в настоящее время...

Реформа высшего образования (ВО) в России,...

В сфере высшего образования показатели...

Since the fall of the USSR, Armenia and Russia have sealed a strategic pact within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the military arm of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This political, military and...

После распада СССР Армения и Россия...

Газовые стратегии России и её...

Russia and Gazprom's natural gas strategies on the European market are the result of the uncertainties (volumes, prices) created by the liberalization of the EU natural gas market. The company's policy of asset acquisition, begun at the end of the...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Norway embarked on a policy to overcome old dividing lines in the High North and encourage closer cooperation with Russia, its large neighbor to the east. In addition to being neighbors in the High North - an...

После распада Советского Союза,...

Угроза создания газовой ОПЕК, исходящая...

The threat of a gas-OPEC, waved around by certain big producers, has given rise to much fear in consuming countries. The behavior of Russia, a key exporter, has made it seem as though gas sales could be used as a political weapon. In truth, the...

Визит президента Франции Николя Саркози...

The visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Russia (October 2007) and the future French Presidency of the European Union (in the second half of 2008) call for a reflection on Franco-Russian relations and their structure within the broader...

The visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Russia (October 2007) and the future French Presidency of the European Union (in the second half of 2008) call for a reflection on Franco-Russian relations and their structure within the broader...

Федеральное государственное унитарное...

Rosoboronexport, a federal state unitary enterprise, is at the heart of Russian political power: it is the key pivot of the arms exports policy and of the ongoing consolidations of the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC). On behalf of its...

Россия и Запад разошлись во мнениях о...

Russia and the West disagree over the future of Kosovo. While the European Union (EU) and United States (US) are keen to grant Kosovo de jure sovereignty under the Ahtisaari plan, Russia insists that no decision can be taken without Serbia's...

One of the main problems in relations between Russia and the European Union (EU) is the absence of strategic goals. Russia, having played a critical role in ending the Cold War, has neither found its place in the strategy of EU expansion nor in that...

Одна из главных проблем в отношениях...

Energy issues lie at the heart of Ukraine's economic, political and strategic challenges. A year after the 'orange revolution', the 'gas war' served to highlight the country's vulnerable position, being 80% dependent on imports of gas and having the...

Энергетический вопрос находится в...

The recent crises over oil & gas deliveries from Russia to Ukraine and Belarus have triggered alarm and virulent criticism in the West. This article describes how these conflicts are in fact not very different from those that took place in the...

Russia is an unavoidable actor in world energy geopolitics. It is also the biggest energy partner of a European Union (EU) that is becoming ever more dependent on outside sources for its energy needs. However, the future of Russia's largest...

Недавние кризисы газовых и нефтяных...

Россия является необходимым...

Russia is now in the final negotiation phase regarding its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Discussions have been held over the past fourteen years and have contributed indisputably to the transformation of the Russian economy and...

Россия подходит к заключительному этапу...

In 1996, the Russian Federation joined the Council of Europe both in spite of and owing to its democratic failings. Accession was, in fact, seen as a step toward democratic conversion. Ten years an, as the Council is presided by Russia for the first...

В 1996 году Российская Федерация вступила в...

Due to its Soviet legacy, Russia has gained a reputation for having a well-trained population and efficient educational system. The facts on the ground are obviously more ambiguous, however. The veritable 'boom' of higher education and the good...

Энергетические отношения между Россией...

Россия унаследовала от советского...

Russia and the European Union have clearly entered a new stage in their energy relations, defined by a growing asymmetry between a strengthened national monopoly on the supply side and a gradual opening of markets in Europe. In this context, a...

С середины 1990-х годов Шанхайская...

Since the mid-1990s, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has been an important factor in, and exerts significant influence on both Kazakhstan's international situation and geopolitical processes in Central Asia. Various aspects of...

Статья посвящена анализу обострения...

This article focuses on the deterioration of relations between Georgia and Russia over the secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgia's separatist conflicts are far more than domestic territorial disputes: they have both regional...

Отношения между ЕС, НАТО и Россией имеют...

Постепенное сокращение запасов...

Расширение круга участников...

В сотрудничестве со своими партнёрами,...

Отношения между Брюсселем и Москвой...

While the EU conceives its neighborhood via regional policies, Russia sees it in terms of geopolitics. A large part of the misunderstanding which prevails on both sides concerning the 'Common Space for External Security' stems from the clash between...

Energy security and gas supply have become issues of central concern for the European Union as reserves in the North Sea are dwindling. Russia is offering to replace the North Sea supplies in the future, but the EU should be aware that Moscow will...

 Increasing the number of actors participating in the daily dialogue between Russia and the EU can not only contribute to solving important issues surrounding these bilateral relations but also, more broadly speaking, to those surrounding the...

The relationships between the EU, NATO and Russia are of great significance for all their actors and for regional security more broadly. The overlapping remit of each is complementary, and provides a potentially beneficial way to address current...

In collaboration with its partners, Ifri is currently supporting a Task Force on the future of EU-Russia relations. The first workshop was held on 2 December 2005 in Paris. Four contributions were then presented: 'Russia, NATO and the EU: A...

Чуть больше года после Оранжевой...

Barely one year after the Orange Revolution, Ukraine finds itself in the midst of fresh internal and external dislocations. In one respect, the revolution promises to be enduring. Ukraine is a democratic country with a vigorous political life, and a...

Since 2003 and after centuries of geopolitical competition, Russia and Turkey have drawn together in a new bilateral relationship. Expanding trade has been a major driving force behind this, but shared disillusionment with United States and...

Пройдя через века геополитического...

Despite the lack of any clear signs of proper 'Europeanization' or any desir to formally joint the European integration process (to became a full member of the European Union - EU), Russia has already become an insider in European political and...

Несмотря на отсутствие явных признаков...

Over the past six years, a subdivided though very centralised mecanism for Russian-German cooperation has been forming. This mecanism has enabled many issues within bilateral relations to be resolved, but at the same time contributed to growing...

За последние шесть лет сформировался...

Развитие событий в России в сторону,...

Original title in German: 'Deutsche Russlandpolitik: Ende des 'Schmusekurses'?' The developments in Putin's Russia away from democracy and the constitutional state have also placed Germany's policy on Russia under scrutiny. In the run-up to the...

Moscow's relationships with both Brussels and London have been bumpy. Nonetheless, recent progress in EU-Russie relations suggests the potential for refashioning the 'strategic partnership' in a more realistic manner. The UK's priorities are to...

В последнее время, отношения между...

This article analyses the evolution of human resources in the field of research since the end of the Soviet era, with particular focus on the phenomenon of the ever-increasing age of experts, the divide into the scientific community and the 'brain...

Russia is currently engaged in a major overhaul of legislation governing the subsoil. The new legal framework will confirm the recent centralisation of authority over subsoil use and initiate the transition from a licensing regime to a regime...

В настоящее время в Российской...

In 2005, the EU-Russia strategic dialogue stands troubled. Recent developments highlight the rising salience of the new shared neighbourhood – that is, in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and the South Caucasus – as the frontline between the...

В 2005 году стратегический диалог между ЕС и...

Отношения России с Китаем являются...

Russia's relationship with China is complex and contradictory. Bilateral ties are more substantive and multifaceted than ever before, the two countries agree on most regional and international questions, and China is a major customer of Russian arms...