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Armen Oganesyan,
Editor-in-Chief of International
Affairs, adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Russian Federation:
Last year produced a big crop of events in Asia.
Witness the regular APEC Summit in Japan, the sec-
ond Russia-ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, the Asia-Eu-
rope Meeting (ASEM) in Brussels attended by
Russia, the Istanbul CICA Summit, and other inter-
national events. This should not be taken to mean
that Russia has no problems in Asia - there are quite a few of them. I have invited you here
to sum up and look into the future.
Vladimir Orlov,
President of PIR Center (The Russian Center for Policy Studies), Editor-in-Chief
of Security Index:
Russian Journal of International Security: A Euro-Pacific power, Russia has been steering
toward balancing out the European and Pacific vectors of its domestic and foreign policies.
There is a development plan for the Russian Far East, the Republic of Buryatia, Trans-
Baikal Territory, and Irkutsk Region for the period of up to 2025. Russia's foreign policy is
expected to promote the efforts inside the country and ensure security of this vast region.
We all agree that Russia should move to the East; we all agree that we should integrate. Our
understanding of integration, however, is lopsided: we move into the region but keep our
country closed.
When talking about Russia's future APEC chairmanship President Medvedev said we in-
tended to cooperate, very much as before, in energy, transport, food, ecological and infor-
mation security in APEC.
Yuri Shafranik,
Chairman of the Board, Union of Oil and Gas Producers of Russia, President,
World Policy and Resources Foundation:
For obvious reasons I look at the Asian region from the point of view of energy sources
and transportation.
I think that the three countries, viz. Russia, Iran and Turkmenistan, should treat the volumes,
directions and prices as their priorities. Confronted with hugely important economic, energy
and political tasks Russia has, so far, done nothing to this effect (not counting scattered ex-
pert comments): selling more but for lower price - it makes no sense.
We have to maintain friendly relations with the former Soviet republics and China.
We continue to build infrastructure and pipelines. Practically nobody in the world build oil
refineries on the sea shore where pipelines end. Plants are put where they receive oil; they
get cheap oil from sea, refine it and put on the domestic market as oil products, chemicals
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The Year 2010: Was Russia Looking to the East?