Institute news

IE RAS presents Analytical paper №14, 2016 «Relations between UK and the Visegrad Four before and after the referendum in Britain» (in Russian) by Lyubov Shishelina, Doctor of Science (History), Head of IE RAS Department of Central and Eastern European Studies.

On June 27, 2016, deputy IE RAS Director V. Belov and Head of IE RAS Center for French Studies Y. Rubinkiy took part in Vladimir Kara-Murza show "Planes of time. UK will take the British leave?" on Radio Svoboda, devoted to the already evident and still unclear consequences of Brexit for Britain, Europe and the world.

On June 23, 2016, International Union of Economists held the session establishing the Arctic Development Committee and discussed acute problems of the Russian Arctic zone. The session was attended by IE RAS associates Valery Zhuravel and Natalia Govorova.

On June 23, 2016, IE RAS Director Al.A. Gromyko took part, in the capacity of honorable guest, in the traditional German – Russian «Кiel Week» (Kiel, Germany), devoted to friendship and mutual understanding between Russia and Germany.

IE RAS presents Analytical paper №13, 2016 «Complex Arctic policy of the EU» (in Russian) by Natalia Govorova, Candidate of Science (Economics), leading scientific associate of IE RAS Department of Economic Studies.

IE RAS presents Working paper №3, 2016 (№17) "What Brexit means for Russia" (in English) by Elena Ananieva, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Head of Center for British Studies IE RAS.

On June 18, Nikolay Shmelev, who passed away almost two years ago, would have celebrated his 80th birthday. The grief of the loss continues to stay with his dear ones, friends, readers and colleagues. Kolya (more than fifty years of our friendship give me the liberty to call him so) was a unique representative of the “Sixties generation”, who lived long enough to witness perestroika and was one of those who preserved his ideals until the end of his life. Almost uniquely, he did not concede to the lure of market economy and did not embark upon the ruinous way of acquisitiveness and vanity.

On June 9, 2016, deputy IE RAS Director V. Belov took part in the podium discussion, organized by Koerber Foundation and devoted to the relations of Russia with the Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

On June 8, 2016, IE RAS held the round table «Greater Black Sea region: problems of geopolitics and geoeconomics», attended by representatives of Russian Foreign Ministry, Primakov IMEMO RAS, Institute of Economy RAS, Institute of Eastern Studies RAS, Institute of USA and Canada RAS and other scientific institutes of Moscow.

On June 6-7, 2016, in Ekateringburg the international scientific colloquium «USSR and Austria in 1950-1960s» was held by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Urals Federal University and Boltzmann Institute (Graz, Austria). The Institute of Europe RAS was represented at the event by Head of Department of Social and Political Studies Dr. V. Shveytzer with the report «Bruno Kreisky and the Soviet Union».