The CSDS and the RIAC's webinar "International assistance and sanctions pressure: vectors of mutual influence"

The webinar was the third joint event organized by the CSDS and RIAC in the anniversary year (both structures celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2021), and confirmed their interest in further strengthening the long-term partnership.

In the first part of the webinar, a common "coordinate system" was set. The experts have outlined a conceptual framework for studying the problems of mutual influence of international aid and sanctions and they will consider the actions of the leading actors in world politics (Russia, China, the USA, the EU, etc.), which form a network of multidirectional vectors.

In the second part of the webinar, attention was focused on individual country cases, which most clearly illustrate both the application of secondary sanctions for providing assistance to the objects of primary restrictions, and the impact of sanctions instruments and risks on the volume, structure and effectiveness of international assistance.

The geography of the cases included such regions as the Middle East (Syria, Palestine), Latin America and the Caribbean (Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua), the CIS space (Belarus), South Asia (Afghanistan).

The event was opened by the RIAC General Director Andrey Kortunov.

The discussion was attended by:

- Vladimir Bartenev, the CSDS Director, Chairman of the International Development Assistance Commission (IDAC) of the Public Council under Rossotrudnichestvo, RIAC expert;

- Ivan Timofeev, Program Director of the RIAC, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Theory, Moscow State Institute of International Relations;

- Georgy Asatryan, Associate Professor of the Department of Regional Problems of World Politics, School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, RIAC expert;

- Vasily Kashin, Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Member of the RIAC;

- Igor Matveev, Senior Researcher, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert;

- Lida Oganisyan, Lecturer at the Department of International Organizations and World Political Processes, the CSDS expert;

- Dmitry Rosenthal, Deputy Director for Research, Institute of Latin America, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert;

- Yulia Timofeeva, RIAC Program Coordinator;

- Luiza Khlebnikova, the CSDS Deputy Director, Associate Professor of the Department of Jewish Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Countries, Lomonosov Moscow State University, RIAC expert;

- Nikolai Yudin, the CSDS Deputy Director, Associate Professor of the Department of International Organizations and World Political Processes, School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.