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Bijan Khajehpour
Andrei Korobkov
Olga Kulkova
Nikolai Kaveshnikov
Tamara Kolesnikova
Ruslan Kostyuk
Yury Krupnov
Mikhail Konarovsky
Michael Kofman
Ekaterina Koldunova
Russian Federation
Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies, Deputy Dean, School of Political Affairs, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), the MFA of Russia.

Member of International Studies Association (ISA), Russian Political Science Association (RAPN), Russian National Committee for BRICS studies, Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA), UK Higher Education Academy. She has the publications on regional transformations, new security threats in Asia, international relations in East and Central Asia, Russian foreign policy in the Asia Pacific. Her recent book is titled "Security in East Asia: New Challenges" (Moscow: Navona, 2010). She is a publishing editor of "Comparative Politics" journal.
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Russia and Asia: The Paradoxes of a New Reality
Back in October 2017, which may seem today a bygone era, a group of Valdai Club experts teamed up with a group of researchers to release a report titled A Look into the Future: Scenarios for Asia and Russia in Asia in the Next 20 Years.
04.09.2023
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Russia-ASEAN: Limits and Opportunities of Economic Partnership
Are there any real grounds that amid the new geo-economic and geopolitical conditions, Russia and the ASEAN countries will be able to build up economic cooperation, and perhaps even elevate it to a qualitatively new level?
29.08.2022
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Russia-Vietnam: Balancing Strategies
Russia and Vietnam are entering the anniversary year of 2019, which marks 25 years since signing the Treaty on the Fundamentals of Friendly Relations, with a set of difficult questions, the answers to which will require a strategic approach.
30.11.2018
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Report: Russia’s Role in the SCO and Central Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
This report seeks to assess the SCO’s efficiency in terms of the level of regional cooperation in Central Asia; analyze the range of opinion in Russian and regional expert and policy-making communities concerning Russia’s goals and opportunities in Central Asia and the SCO.
15.01.2015
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Upcoming SCO Summit in Bishkek: Security Issues under Scrutiny
While 2013 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek is getting closer its agenda is taking practical shape. For obvious reasons the current dominating trend is to focus the SCO’s agenda more on security issues without neglecting their socio-economic context. Russia’s interest as well as other SCO member states’ is to make the SCO a viable mechanism both for Afghanistan’s peace co-development with its neighbors and for effective reaction to the security threats in the region.
03.07.2013
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Russian Corporation for Cooperation With Central Asia: What's in a Name?
The general trend of the past two decades indicates a growing diversification among Central Asian countries in their relationship with Russia. Russian cooperation with the five Central Asian republics became a part of various bilateral and multilateral tracks and projects. Some of them seem to be proving more successful (like the Customs Union), while others are not making much progress.
11.06.2013
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Russia to Push Forward SCO Economic Agenda
The common opinion of many experts at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is that the past decade has witnessed a more or less established balance of approaches within the organization concerning its future development. This balance entailed China promoting the idea of closer economic cooperation with SCO members, while Russia stressed political and security aspects of multilateral collaboration.
19.02.2013
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