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Conversation between Dr. Alexey Gromyko, Director, Institute of Europe (Russian Academy of Sciences), president, Russian Association of European Studies, and Prof. Jiang Feng, Chairman of the Council of the Shanghai Academy of Global Government and Area Studies (SAGGAS) at Shanghai International Studies University, which he previously headed. Jiang also served as Minister-Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Berlin.

On March 26, 2026, IE RAS associates took part in XI Saint-Petersburg international economic congress.

IE RAS presents Analytical papers of IE RAS No 13, 2026 «EU-Mercosur Agreement: from regional inertia to global maneuvers» (in Russian) by Anna Shcherbakova, Candidate of Political Science, Senior Researcher, Department of European Integration Studies, Institute of Europe RAS.

On March 18, 2026, IE RAS held the international conference «Europe and Central Asia: economy, politics, security».

IE RAS presents Analytical papers of IE RAS No 9, 2026 «Chancellor Merz’s Visit to the People’s Republic of China: Tactical Stabilization of Germany’s China Vector» (in English) by Vladislav Belov, Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Board Member, Head of the Department for Countries Studies, Head of the Center for German Studies, Institute of Europe (RAS).

March 11, 2026, IE RAS Department of social and political studies, IE RAS Center Europe–BRICS and Center for BRICS politics (Brazil) conducted a joint international scientific seminar.

IE RAS presents Analytical papers of IE RAS No 12, 2026 «Winter 2025/2026: Political Results for Belarus» (in Russian) by Nikolay M. Mezhevich, Doctor of Science (Economics), Professor, Head of the Center for Belarusian Studies, Department of Social and Political Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Vsevolod V. Shimov, Candidate of Science (Politics), Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Belarusian State University.

On March 10, 2026, leading scientific associates of IE RAS Department of country studies V.B. Belov and I.V. Popov took part in the round table «Operation of USA and Israel against Iran: position of the European allies».

On March 10, 2026, IE RAS hosted the 67^th meeting of N.P. Shmelev Economic seminar on «Development of area economic integration in the EU».

On March 2-4, 2026, IE RAS Director Аl.А. Gromyko, RAS Corresponding member, RIAС member, took part in the Third Russia – Chine dialogue.

IE RAS presents Analytical papers of IE RAS No 11, 2026 «Prospects for the construction of icebreakers: partnership between the USA and Finland» (in Russian) by Roman Zhilin, Junior researcher of the Department of European security, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences.

IE RAS presents Analytical papers of IE RAS No 10, 2026 «EU's 2026 initiatives to ensure the security of submarine cables: Baltic-Scandinavian macroregion» (in Russian) by Marina Kolesnikova, Scientific Researcher of the Department of Black and Mediterranean Seas Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

IE RAS presents Analytical papers of IE RAS No 9, 2026 «Chancellor Merz’s Visit to the People’s Republic of China: Tactical Stabilization of Germany’s China Vector» (in Russian) by Vladislav Belov, Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Board Member, Head of the Department for Countries Studies, Head of the Center for German Studies, Institute of Europe (RAS).

IE RAS presents Analytical papers of IE RAS No 8, 2026 «Europeanization of Transatlantic Security Architecture in the Context of Munich Security Conference 2026» (in Russian) by Sergey Grinyaev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arctic Research of the Department of Country Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences.

On February 26, 2026, IE RAS held the round table «Current Europe – China relations».

On February 25, 2026, IE RAS Department of European integration studies and Department of country studies held a «Transatlantic talks» seminar on «Problems of interaction between Britain, EU and USA».

On February 24, 2026, IE RAS Director Аl.А. Gromyko and Deputy IE RAS Director R.N. Lunkin took part in Assisi seminar meeting on nuclear arms control «The world without weapons and the world of disarmament. Religion and conversion of nuclear weapons in peace energy».

On February 10, 2026, IE RAS hosted IV International scientific conference «Arctic region in modern global politics», organized by Arbatov Institute of USA and Canada RAS and Russian center of scientific information with support of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Federation Council.