Valdai Club

Yeghia Tashjian

Mikhail Troitskiy

Stanislav Tkachenko

Valery Tishkov

Ilter Turan

Ekaterina Timoshenkova

Mattia Toaldo

Peter Turchin

Georgy Toloraya

Mikhail Troitskiy

Russian Federation

Adjunct professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, member of the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations.

Materials

Polarization in US Society Keeps Growing as Midterm Elections Approach

On November 6, midterm elections to the US Congress will be held. Mikhail Troitskiy, Dean of the School of Government and International Affairs at MGIMO University in Moscow, told valdaiclub.com about the country’s political atmosphere and relations between Donald Trump and the Congress in the field of US foreign policy after the 2018 elections.

Trump-Bolton Team: First Onslaught

The appointment of John Bolton as the National Security Advisor will allow Donald Trump to control some directions of the foreign policy. Washington will face a difficult choice between the retreat and escalation of the conflict with groups of both rivals and allies of the US.

Humanitarian Agenda Still Divides Russia and the United States

The putative adoption of the Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, the trials of Russian citizens in U.S. courts, as well as the two countries' perspectives on the conflict in and around Syria have continued to be controversial for Russia-U.S. relations. And yet neither of these problems appears strategic or intractable.

Report: U.S.-Russia Relations in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Transcending the Zero-Sum Game

The report examines how the Russia’s and United States` ties with the countries in post-Soviet Eurasia affect the bilateral relationship. The authors argue that despite the initial successes of the “reset” in Russia-U.S. relations, disputes relating to post-Soviet Eurasia represent “a ‘landmine’ in Russia -U.S. relations that could ‘detonate’ at any time and seriously complicate cooperation on other issues.

No Pause for the “Reset”

The U.S.-Russia “reset” has become an acknowledged foreign policy triumph for the incumbent administrations in Washington and Moscow. However, amid the difficulties with negotiating further arms control agreements, politicians and pundits on both sides are tempted to conclude that the reset has largely run its course. Such talk is premature at best and harmful to U.S.-Russia relations at worst.