Valdai Club

Konstantin Khudoley

Natalya Kharitonova

Adil Kaukenov

Srikanth Kondapalli

Dmitry Kiku

Daria Kazarinova

Daniel Kosinski

Sergey Kostelyanets

Li Kunlin

Dmitry Kiku

Russian Federation

Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council.

Materials

An Anti-Sanctions Alliance Is Taking Shape

More and more states, including those not subject to sanctions, are recognising the harmfulness of coercive measures, including “secondary” ones, against their citizens and companies. The need is now ripe to develop an international, legally binding instrument aimed at jointly countering unilateral restrictions, Dmitry Kiku writes.

New Stage of EU Sanctions Policy: Extraterritorial Measures

The European Union is creating a mechanism for secondary sanctions against Russia. However, the use of such an instrument is unlikely to protect EU companies from secondary US sanctions. In the context of Euro-Atlantic solidarity amid Russia’s opposition, the issue of EU financial sovereignty in relations with the United States, apparently, will sink into oblivion.

The Human Factor and the Prospect of Germany’s Permanent Membership in the UN Security Council

The growing vassal-like dependence of Germany on Washington, a biased position on the situation in Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine, as well as Berlin’s active participation in the development of unilateral EU sanctions have led to a situation where an increasing number of countries no longer consider Germany as a candidate for permanent membership of the UN Security Council, Dmitry Kiku writes.

US left Isolated, Iran Nuclear Deal Under Threat: What Will Crisis Over Iran in UN Security Council Lead to?

Serious political crisis around the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program became the most significant event in recent times.

Post-Pandemic Sanctions Policy

The pandemic at once revealed several weaknesses of the Euro-Atlantic ideology. First of all, it struck at the idea of a 11collective West, which knocked down like a house of cards, as well as at the solidarity between the Western democracies, writes Dmitry Kiku, Deputy Director of the Russian Finance Ministry's Department of External Restrictive Measures Control.

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