Institute news

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».

Deputy IE RAS Director, Head of Center for German Studies V.B. Belov and deputy Head of the Center Е.P. Timoshenkova gave interviews to several Russian mass media in relation to the new edition of the «White book» of German Federal Defense Ministry.

On June 1, 2016, in Moscow, the third seminar of Russian and EU experts «EU and Russia: what is the new reality?» was held, organized by Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and EU Delegation to Russia.

On May 30-31, 2016, IE RAS Director Аl.А. Gromyko and deputy IE RAS Director V.B. Belov took part in regular «Potsdam meetings», organized by Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Foundation and German-Russian Forum.