Russie.NEI.Visions (RNV [1])is an online collection of policy papers each in French, English and Russian produced by the Russia/New Independent States Centre of the French Institute of International Relations (Institut français des relations internationales, Ifri), a think tank. The collection promotes the publication of policy oriented analyses of events in the post-Soviet space, authored by established experts and up-and-coming analysts.
Created in 2005 by Thomas Gomart, today the collection is directed by Tatiana Kastueva-Jean with Julien Nocetti (editor). Since its creation, a paper collecting the year's production has been published annually.
The collection offers regular analysis of events in the former Soviet states, peer-reviewed and translated into all three languages. The collection has been cited in academic works as well as in the media.
No.99, March 2017, Kadyrovism: Hardline Islam as a Tool of the Kremlin?, Marlène LaruelleNo.98, February 2017, Central Asia: Facing Radical Islam, Erlan KarinNo.97, November 2016, Russia and Central and Eastern Europe: between Confrontation and Collusion, Pavel BaevNo.96, September 2016, Russia's Economic Modernization: The Causes of a Failure, Vladislav InozemtsevNo.95, July 2016, The Far Right in the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Vyacheslav LikhachevNo.94, June 2016, Russia’s Asia Strategy: Bolstering the Eagle’s Eastern Wing, Dmitri TreninNo.93, May 2016, Russia's Diplomacy in the Middle East: Back to Geopolitics, Alexander ShumilinNo.92, March 2016, The Illusion of Convergence: Russia, China, and the BRICS, Bobo LoNo.91, January 2016, Russia’s Immigration Policy: New Challenges and Tools, Lyubov BissonNo.90, December 2015, "Conservatism" in Russia: Political Tool or Historical Choice?, Leonid PolyakovNo.89, December 2015, Eurasia in Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Opportunities and Constraints, Ivan Timofeev, Elena AlekseenkovaNo.88, November 2015, Russia: Business and State, Igor Bunin, Alexey MakarkinNo.87, August 2015, Leaving to Come Back: Russian Senior Officials and the State-Owned Companies, Mikhail KorostikovNo.86, July 2015, Russia's New Energy Alliances: Mythology versus Reality, Vladimir MilovNo.85, June 2015, The Kurds: A Channel of Russian Influence in the Middle East?, Igor DelanoëNo.84, April 2015, Russia's Domestic Evolution, what Impact on its Foreign Policy, Tatiana Kastueva-JeanNo.83, March 2015, The Jewish Diaspora and the Russo-Ukrainian Crisis, Olena Bagno-MoldavskyNo.82, January 2015, Frontiers New and Old: Russia’s Policy in Central Asia, Bobo LoNo.81, November 2014, Moldova's National Minorities: Why are they Euroskeptical?, Marcin Koscienkowski & William SchreiberNo.80, September 2014, Russia and Global Climate Governance, Nina TynkkynenNo.79, August 2014, "Green Economy": Opportunities and Constraints for Russian Companies, Pyotr KiryushinNo.78, June 2014, The Crisis in Ukraine: An Insider's View, Oleg GrytsaienkoNo.77, May 2014, Russia's Academy of Sciences' Reform: Causes and Consequences for Russian Science, Irina DezhinaNo.76, April 2014, Russia: Youth and Politics, Mikhail KorostikovNo.75, March 2014, Rosneft, Gazprom and the Government: the Decision-Making Triangle on Russia's Energy Policy, Pavel BaevNo.74, February 2014, The EU, Russia and the Eastern Partnership: What Dynamics under the New German Government?, Dominik TolksdorfNo.73, December 2013, The Influence of the State on Expanding Russian MNEs: Advantage or Handicap?, Andrei PanibratovNo.72, September 2013, Japan-Russia: Toward a Strategic Partnership?, Céline PajonNo.71, May 2013, Afghanistan after 2014: The Way Forward for Russia, Ekaterina StepanovaNo.70, April 2013, Russia's Eastern Energy Policy: A Chinese Puzzle for Rosneft, Nina PoussenkovaNo.69, March 2013, Russia-Turkey: A Relationship Shaped by Energy, Rémi BourgeotNo.68, February 2013, Governors, Oligarchs, and Siloviki: Oil and Power in Russia, Ahmed Mehdi & Shamil YenikeyeffNo.67, January 2013, Deja Vu with BMD: The Improbability of Russia-NATO Missile Defense, Richard WeitzNo.66, October 2012, The WTO and the Customs Union: What Consequences for the Russian Banking Sector?, Dmitri MiroshnichenkoNo.65, August 2012, Russia's Arctic Policy and the Northern Fleet Modernization, Pavel BaevNo.64, February 2012, Decoding Russia's WTO Accession, Dominic FeanNo.63, December 2011, Russian Digital Dualism: Changing Society, Manipulative State, Alexey SidorenkoNo.62, September 2011, Italy, Russia's Voice in Europe?, Nadezhda ArbatovaNo.61, July 2011, What the North Caucasus Means to Russia, Aleksey MalashenkoNo.60, July 2011, The Caucasus: a Hotbed of Terrorism in Metamorphosis, Pavel BaevNo.59, April 2011, "Digital Kremlin": Power and the Internet in Russia, Julien NocettiNo.58, March 2011, Doing Business in Russia: Informal Practices and Anti-Corruption Strategies, Alena Ledeneva & Stanislav ShekshinaNo.57, February 2011, Developing Research in Russian Universities, Irina DezhinaNo.56, December 2010, Israel's Immigrant Parties: An Inefficient Russia Lobby, Olena Bagno & Zvi MagenNo.55, November 2010, Syria: Russia's Best Asset in the Middle East, Andrej KreutzNo.54, August 2010, Russia's Far East Policy: Looking Beyond China, Stephen BlankNo.53, July 2010, Results of the 'Reset' in US-Russian Relations, R. Craig NationNo.52, June 2010, From Moscow to Mecca: Russia's Saudi Arabian Diplomacy, Julien NocettiNo.51, May 2010, Russia and Turkey: Rethinking Europe to Contest Outsider Status, Richard SakwaNo.50, May 2010, Europe in Russian Foreign Policy: Important but no longer Pivotal, Thomas GomartNo.49, April 2010, Russia's Greater Middle East Policy: Securing Economic Interests, Courting Islam, Mark N. KatzNo.48, March 2010, Internal and External Impact of Russia's Economic Crisis, Jeffrey MankoffNo.47, February 2010, Russia, China and the United States: From Strategic Triangularism to the Postmodern Triangle, Bobo LoNo.46, January 2010, Georgia, Obama, the Economic Crisis: Shifting Ground in Russia-EU Relations, Timofei BordachevNo.45, December 2009, What Is China To Us ? Westernizers and Sinophiles in Russian Foreign Policy, Andrei TsygankovNo.44, September 2009, Making Good Use of the EU in Georgia : « Eastern Partnership and Conflict Policy », Dominic FeanNo.43, August 2009, Russia and the “Eastern Partnership” after the War in Georgia, Jean-Philippe TardieuNo.42, July 2009, “Cool Neighbors” : Sweden’s EU Presidency and Russia, Eva Hagström Frisell, Ingmar OldbergNo.41, June 2009, The Challenges of Russia’s Demographic Crisis, Anatoly VichnevskyNo.40, May 2009, NATO and Russia : Post-Georgia Threat Perceptions, Aurel BraunNo.39, April 2009, Obama and Russia : Facing the Heritage of the Bush Years, Thomas GomartNo.38, April 2009, Russia in Latin America : Geopolitical Games in the US’s Neighborhood, Stephen BlankNo.37, March 2009, Russia’s Armed Forces : The Power of Illusion, Roger McDermottNo.36, January 2009, China as an Emerging Donor in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Nargis KassenovaNo.35, December 2008, Islamist Terrorism in Greater Central Asia : The “Al-Qaedaization” of Uzbek Jihadism, Didier ChaudetNo.34, September 2008, Russian Chinese Relations through the Lens of the SCO, Stephen ArisNo.33, August 2008, Academic Cooperation between Russia and the US. Moving Beyond Technical Aid ?, Andrey KortunovNo.32, July 2008, Injecting More Differentiation in European Neighbourhood Policy : What Consequences for Ukraine ?, Kerry LonghurstNo.31, June 2008, Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Bellwether of Russia’s Investment Climate ?, Adrian DelleckerNo.30, April 2008, The Impact of "New Public Management" on Russian Higher Education, Carole SigmanNo.29, April 2008, Higher Education in Russia: How to Overcome the Soviet Heritage ?, Boris SaltykovNo.28, April 2008, Higher Education, the Key to Russia's Competitiveness, Tatiana Kastueva-JeanNo.27, February 2008, Armenia, a Russian Outpost in the Caucasus ?, Gaïdz MinassianNo.26, February 2008, EU Gas Liberalization as a Driver of Gazprom's Strategies ?, Catherine LocatelliNo.25, December 2007, High Stakes in the High North. Russian-Norwegian Relations and their Implication for the EU, Jakub M. GodzimirskiNo.24, November 2007, Russia and the "Gas-OPEC". Real or Perceived Threat?, Dominique FinonNo.23, October 2007, Paris and the EU-Russia Dialogue: A New Impulse with Nicolas Sarkozy ?, Thomas GomartNo.22, September 2007, Rosoboronexport, Spearhead of the Russian Arms Industry, Louis-Marie ClouetNo.21, July 2007, Russia and the Deadlock over Kosovo, Oksana AntonenkoNo.20, June 2007, Russie-EU beyond 2007. Russian Domestic Debates, Nadezhda ArbatovaNo.19, May 2007, The Opacity of Russian-Ukrainian Energy Relations, Arnaud DubienNo.18, March 2007, Gazprom as a Predictable Partner. Another Reading of the Russian-Ukrainian and Russian-Belarusian Energy Crises, Jérôme GuilletNo.17, March 2007, Gazprom, the Fastest Way to Energy Suicide, Christophe-Alexandre PaillardNo.16, February 2007, Russia and the WTO: On the Finishing Stretch, Julien VercueilNo.15, January 2007, Russia and the Council of Europe: Ten Years Wasted ?, Jean-Pierre MassiasNo.14, September 2006, The "Greatness and Misery" of Higher Education in Russia, Tatiana Kastueva-JeanNo.13, September 2006, The EU-Russia Energy Dialogue: Competition Versus Monopolies, Vladimir MilovNo.12, July 2006, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization as "Geopolitical Bluff?" A View from Astana, Murat LaumulinNo.11, June 2006, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Collision of Georgian and Russian Interests, Tracey GermanNo.10, May 2006, Special Issue : Workshop on EU-Russia relations"Russia, NATO and the EU: A European Security Triangle or Shades of a New Entente ?", Andrew Monaghan
"The EU and Russia: the Needed Balance Between Geopolitics and Regionalism", Thomas Gomart
"Representing Private Interests to Increase Trust in Russia-EU Relations", Timofei Bordachev
"Multiplying Sources as the Best Strategy for EU-Russia Energy Relations", Michael Thumann
No.9, March 2006, Ukraine's Scissors: between Internal Weakness and External Dependence, James SherrNo.8, January 2006, Russia and Turkey in the Caucasus: Moving Together to Preserve the Status Quo ?, Fiona Hill and Omer TaspinarNo.7, October 2005, UE Crisis: What Opportunities for Russia ?, Timofei BordachevNo.6 (a), September 2005 "Russia and Germany: Continuity and Changes", Andrei ZagorskiNo.6(b), September 2005, "Germany's Policy on Russia: End of the Honeymoon?", Hannes AdomeitNo.5, August 2005, From Plans to Substance: EU-Russia Relations During the British Presidency, Andrew MonaghanNo.4, June 2005, Russian Scientists: Where Are they? Where Are They Going? Human Resources and Research Policy in Russia, Irina DezhinaNo.3, May 2005, Re-Writing Russia's Subsoil Law: from Sovereignty to Civil Law ?, William TompsonNo.2, April 2005, Shared Neighbourhood or New Frontline ? The Crossroads in Moldova, Dov LynchNo.1, April 2005, A Fine Balance - The Strange Case of Sino-Russian Relations, Bobo LoLaunched in September 2009, Russie.Nei.Reports is an electronic collection providing extensive analysis based on fieldwork. Papers are published either in French or in English.
No. 21, October 2015 : There Will Be Gas: Gazprom's Transport Strategy in Europe, Aurélie BrosNo. 20, September 2015 : Guerre de l'information : le web russe dans le conflit en Ukraine, Julien NocettiNo. 19, May 2015 : Ukraine: a Test for Russian Military Reforms, Pavel BaevNo. 18, July 2014 : Gazprom in Europe: a Business Doomed to Fail?, Aurélie BrosNo. 17, January 2014 : Russia's Eastern Direction—Distinguishing the Real from the Virtual, Bobo LoNo. 16, December 2013 : Russian LNG: The Long Road to Export, Tatiana MitrovaNo. 15, December 2012 : OMC: quel impact pour le secteur agricole russe ?, Pascal GrouiezNo. 14, November 2012 : Kazakhstan and Eurasian Economic Integration: Quick Start, Mixed Results and Uncertain Future, Nargis KassenovaNo. 13, October 2012 : Entreprises et universités russes : de la coopération au recrutement, Tatiana Kastouéva-JeanNo. 12, June 2012 : The Religious Diplomacy of the Russian Federation, Alicja CuranovicNo. 11, April 2012 : Ukraine at the Crossroads: Between the EU DCFTA and Customs Union, Olga Shumylo-TapiolaNo. 10, March 2012 : Le Web en Russie : de la virtualité à la réalité politique ?, Julien NocettiNo. 9, January 2012 : Université fédérale de l'Oural, une futur "Harvard régionale"?, Tatiana Kastouéva-JeanNo. 8, June 2011 : L'université Goubkine: réservoir de cadres pour le secteur pétrolier et gazier, Tatiana Kastouéva-JeanNo. 7, May 2011 : Economic Constraint and Ukraine's Security Policy, Dominic FeanNo. 6, December 2010 : How the Chinese See Russia, Bobo LoNo. 5, October 2010 : "Soft power" russe: discours, outils, impact, Tatiana Kastouéva-JeanNo. 4, September 2010 : Les universités privées, "mal-aimées" de l'enseignement supérieur russe, Tatiana Kastouéva-JeanNo. 3, March 2010 : L'université technique Bauman: un atout majeur de la politique industrielle russe, Carole SigmanNo. 2, October 2009 : Le Haut collège d'économie: école de commerce, université et think tank, Carole SigmanNo. 1, October 2009 : "Projet MISiS": futur modèle de l'enseignement supérieur en Russie?, Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean