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The Carnegie Moscow Center published a comment made by research fellow of the Department of Chinese Studies I. Zuenko: “Will Chinese investment come to the ports of the Far East”. Further details are available via the link below: http://carnegie.ru/commentary/71383

On June 29, 2017, a round table discussion “Dynamics of International and Political Processes in Northeast Asia in the First Half of 2017” was conducted at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, FEB RAS. The event was organized by the Laboratory of Situation Analysis of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, IHAE FEB RAS.

On June 22, 2017, the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, FEB RAS conducted a round table discussion “International Projects of Eurasian Integration: History and Reality” organized by the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies.

V. Larin’s speech at the Third International Conference at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) on May 29-30, 2017. The subject of the talk: “Russia and China in the Development of the North-East Platform of Eurasian Integration”. A video of the speech is available at http://russiancouncil.ru/rucn2017 (speaking time 12:31 – 12:45)

A new study about the history of the Chinese Eastern Railway by senior scientific officer G. Romanova was published at the official site of the Administration of Pogranichny District in Primorye Region: http://pogranichny.ru/index.php/2015-04-16-03-28-18/istoriya-pogranichnogo-rajona/3538-istoriya-kvzhd

The subject of the issue of the journal “Russia and Pacific” №4, 2017 is “The Role of Space in the Politics of the Modern State. Russia in Comparative Perspective” (see the file). Articles are accepted for review until September 10, 2017.

“Chinese debts” – the article written by I. Zuenko, a member of the Department of Chinese Studies of the Center of Asia-Pacific Studies. FEBRAS was published on the website of the leading weekly magazine “Expert”: http://expert.ru/2017/05/2/kitajskie-dolgi/

The book of reports of the Third International Congress of Medieval Archaeology of Eurasian Steppes “Between East and West: Movement of Cultures, Technologies and Empires” is available for download in the section “Online Publications”.

On April 18-19, 2017, the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East (IHAE FEBRAS) held the 46th Annual Scientific Session “Russia – Japan in Historical, Political and Cultural Perspectives”.

The 17th Session of Archaeologists of the Far East was held on April 20-21, 2017. Around 40 researchers from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, and Ussuriysk attended the event.

January 6, 2016 at 4: 30 a.m. Moscow time means of standard seismological monitoring of the various countries recorded in northeastern North Korea in the area of the test site Pungere (province of Agando), 200 km from the border with Russia, a quake with a magnitude up to 5 points. By the nature of the oscillations it has been found that it is not natural, but manmade. After a few hours followed a statement of the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (KCNA), from which the world learned that North Korea carried out an underground test of a hydrogen bomb. Read more (on Russian)…

The events of the downed Russian SU-24 aircraft by the Turkish side once again showed how difficult relations between Ankara and Moscow. Read more (on Russian).

September 28, 2015 in New York hosted the 70th jubilee session of the UN General Assembly, with the participation of all members of the organization. Read more (on Russian)…

Causes of slippage Russia’s “turn to the East” are as abstract guidelines for a “turn” and attempts to implement it through the intensification of bilateral relations with certain countries in Asia. Read more in the article of V. Larin on the website “National Interest“.

In the first half of April 2015 the Head of the government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visited the countries of South-East Asia – Vietnam (April 6-7) and Thailand (April 7-8). These are two countries with different level and nature of bilateral relations with Russia are united by the fact that the current state of Russian-Vietnamese and Russian-Thai relations requires serious rethinking and diplomatic support.

Available on Russian.