Region: Central Asia

Russia’s relations with the world of Islam mean a time-tested, trust-based cooperation, with the Islamic dimension always present in the national foreign policy

Asia and Eurasia remain a space of cooperation, not competition, and the leading regional powers are able to achieve terms that would be comparatively fair for their smaller partners

On December 4, 2023, the online seminar "One Belt, One Road Initiative in Modern Geopolitical Realities" became the first joint event of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies (China)

The political trust between China and Russia has been steadily strengthened over the years

On November 29, 2023, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a roundtable titled “Eurasian connectivity projects: Russian and Indian perspectives on opportunities for cooperation”

In the coming years, Russia’s policy in the Eurasian space will most likely be aimed at avoiding excessive obligations, but at the same time strengthening relations with those countries that are really interested in cooperating with Moscow, as well as strengthening the influence of broad international institutions, particularly the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

An important task for the future for Russia is to sync the EAEU and the BRI, developing a roadmap and pointing to projects that could demonstrate its concrete content

Such sanctions are unlikely to ensure the blockade of Russia desired by the Western initiators. This was not achieved even with respect to Iran, whose economy is smaller than Russia's

A golden route to the economic prosperity of Iran?

Maneuvering for the good: where will the national government’s logistics ambitions lead?

Report No. 84 / 2023

To be instrumental the SCO has to resist the temptation to find a narrowly defined focus for its future activities. The breadth of its mandate is yet another comparative advantage to be preserved and expanded