Russia is unique among emerging donors for being a ‘re-emerging' donor: the Soviet Union was one of the largest donor countries in the world, and Russia's period as an aid recipient was relatively brief. Russian development cooperation is driven by key security and economic priorities, as well...

Similar to the other BRICS countries (Brazil, China, India and South Africa), since 2007 Russia has been creating, or rather ‘re-creating', an international development assistance programme and has become an active global development cooperation partner. While the Soviet Union was one of the...

The pace of global recovery remains weak. More than twelve months since the G-20 summit in Los Cabos, G-20 members are laboring their way towards “Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth” in a clouded world economic outlook, with the eurozone in a state of recession, a combination of policy...

In 2022, the process of gradual destruction of multilateralization gave way to an acute crisis. Multiple challenges, including a continued spread of new strains of coronavirus, disruptions in supply chains, appreciation of prices for food and energy, rising inflation, slowdown of economic growth...

The whole complex of pandemic, economic, and social crises has become a kind of a stress test for the system of multilateral cooperation as it is weakened by geopolitical conflicts, contradictions between the key members and growing mistrust due to stalled reforms of international organizations...

In 2019, the effects of geopolitical contradictions and increasing protectionism continued to influence the global economy, the Russian economy, the economies of our partner countries, and the current agendas of international institutions. The escalation of tensions undermines confidence across...

The G20 has proven that it can respond to crises. Challenging a plethora of skeptics, the G20 is now a long-term process in motion. Still, it has to live up to the expectations that it can prevent global risks and break deadlocks that paralyze other institutions responsible for resolving...

The G20 has proved that it can respond to crises. It has to live up to the expectations that it can prevent global risks, break dead locks other institutions responsible for resolving critical issues were unable to break. Challenging a plethora of skeptics G20 is now a long term process in...

The essay attempts to respond to several key questions on Russia's position vis-à-vis the financial and economic crisis and the G8/G20 summitry. The author takes the questions put forward by the editors and focuses on Russia's basic understanding of the consequences of financial and economic...