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Roger Neil McDermott, Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation, thinks that the Russian Armed Forces presently have low combat capabilities in terms of conventional forces structure.
We are currently progressing from a Soviet-style army to different kind of military, even if slowly and with difficulty, said Prof. Alexander Sharavin, Director of the Russian Institute of Political and Military Analysis
Russian military reform should focus around local threats, counterterrorism, smaller and more effective modern weapons, thinks Dr. Richard Weitz, Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute
Military section of Valdai International Discussion Club, which took place on May 25-27 in Moscow, gathered prominent experts and military specialists from leading research centers, universities and state agencies from Russia, the United States, Europe and Japan.
It is a good idea of economic cooperation between pacific region of the United States, pacific region of Canada, Russian Far East, Japan, and South Korea
International experts and public figures gathered in Malta on December 9-10 to try to find new approaches to the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The forum, entitled Scenarios and Models of Middle East settlement, is the second Valdai conference on the theme.
Speaking at a conference in Malta on December 9, Yevgeny Primakov, academician, head of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and former prime minister of the Russian Federation, voiced his views on potential routes to a Middle East peace settlement.
Russian expert Alexander Aksenyonok told RIA Novosti about the purposes of the Valdai club’s forum, Scenarios and Models of Middle East settlement, which is being held in Malta October 9-10.
From the point of view of policy-makers and diplomats it’s really a disaster and the full dimensions of it are not known yet because only a tiny fraction of the documents have been released
The importance of WikiLeaks factor to the U.S.-Russia relations with so much historical baggage of mistrust can’t be underestimated
Unspoken truths made public can hardly have a long term effect on American-Russian relations. However they could slow down the positive results of the reset.
The Arab-Israeli conflict, or as it is often called, the Middle East conflict, has been one of the world’s longest-running conflicts. It has been dragging on for more than six decades. In spite of the collective efforts of the world community, a solution has yet to be found.
Today there is no comparable leader on the Middle East scene like Anwar Sadat or Menachem Begin. We know what the solution has to look like but we don’t have leaders who could get us there.
The Russian-Chinese section of the Valdai International Discussion Club, entitled “Regional stability through harmonious development: Russia and China in the new world architecture,” was held on November 25-26, 2010, in Shanghai.
According to professor Mikhail Pogrebinsky, director of the Kiev Center for Political and Conflict Studies there is no strategic concept to build Russia-Ukraine relations on. Russia deserves most of the blame for this, as Ukraine is still searching for itself.
Editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza Adam Michnik speaks about two reasons of Russia-Poland reset. First, the Kremlin and the Polish government have sought improvement, and second, Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev admitted the truth about Katyn and made it clear who the guilty party is in this tragedy.
Sheng Shiliang , chief researcher with the Center for Global Challenges Studies, Xinhua News Agency, thinks that getting back on the European path is not the best choice, as Russia is too big and unique for Europe, which is half the size of Russia. Integration with Asia is an even worse alternative because there’s not enough room for Asians there as it is.
There has definitely been progress in Russia-US relations, but it is only the beginning of a process that will take at least 10 years, believes Timothy Colton, Professor of Government and Russian Studies at Harvard.
The choice between the EU and the US as the better business partner for Russia is clear, says Clifford Kupchan, head of Russia and CIS team at Eurasia Group and a former senior official at the US State Department.
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