Carnegie Moscow Center
Europe encompasses more than just the European Union; Russians are Europeans as well. As Russia continues to evolve, it needs wide-ranging efforts at modernization, and the European Union can certainly help. Yet Russia needs to work with the entirety of the EU, not only its larger members.
Moldova is Europe's poorest country, and it faces the difficult task of creating the conditions necessary for sustainable development and modernization. The nation's foreign policy is focused on the realization of this aim.
European and Russian experts discuss the key issues affecting Russia-Europe relations.
As a new round of Russian-EU negotiations on visa-free travel begins, the difficult task of improving the process by which citizens of Russia and the CIS obtain Schengen visas remains.
For the moment, pragmatism has gained the upper hand over idealism and emotions in Russian-Ukrainian relations. As long as the two countries are willing to work together, they both have a good chance of achieving their core interests.
History is being newly politicized in Russia and in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and history itself is becoming a field of politics, but historians can and should resist manipulation by politicians.
Russia’s current ruling elite understands the threat posed by an ethnic project of nation-building and, therefore, seeks to adhere to a supranational concept of Russia as a civilization.
Foreign Affairs Minister Petro Poroshenko discussed Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy challenges ahead of the presidential election in January, stressing Ukraine’s strengthened democratic processes and the importance of continued dialogue about the new and open European security architecture.
A panel of experts on Russia, Europe and NATO discussed what a common European security space would look like, and how it could be created.
The United States must recognize that former Soviet states are and will continue to be an important focus of Russia’s foreign policy, and should take a broader regional view to its relationships with countries in Russia's sphere of influence.