Post-Soviet region

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party victory in the parliamentary election has given the Armenian leadership a new mandate to diversify its foreign policy. However, the first steps taken by the gove...

Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov’s official visit indicates that Baku is gradually moving its relationship with Ukraine beyond humanitarian assistance and into the fields of energy, economics, and sec...

The Kazakh president’s proposal envisages a shift from military escalation to an updated Istanbul format with the participation of mutually agreed international guarantors Kazakh President Kassym-Joma...

Systematic Ukrainian drone strikes on Wildberries warehouse complexes have marked a new direction in Kyiv’s campaign deep inside Russia. While earlier attacks mainly targeted oil refineries, fuel depo...

Across the Caspian to a New Asia: How Azerbaijan Is Redrawing the Boundaries of Regional Cooperation An informal meeting of Central Asian leaders in Cholpon-Ata showed that a region long caught betwee...

On the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, where mountain ranges are reflected in the dark water, the presidents of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan exchanged their countries’ highest honors, spoke of shared Turkic roo...

Worsening relations between Armenia and Russia are pushing Yerevan to accelerate its rapprochement with the European Union, develop trade with Turkey and Azerbaijan and expand energy cooperation with...

The invasion did not destroy Moscow’s ties with the former Soviet republics, but it deprived Russia of its greatest advantage — the perception that it was a predictable center of power and a guarantor...

Azerbaijan’s foreign trade appeared resilient in the first half of 2026. According to the State Statistical Committee and the State Customs Committee, turnover rose 1.1 per cent year on year to $24.66...

Russia has intensified political and economic pressure on Armenia over its rapprochement with the European Union, warning Yerevan that leaving the Eurasian Economic Union would cause a deep crisis and...

Only 24 hours separated two speeches by Vladimir Putin, yet politically they seemed to belong to different eras. In Omsk, Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, spoke about the need to stop th...

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s proposal to freeze the war in Ukraine and return to an “Istanbul formula 2.0” has once again highlighted Turkey as a possible venue for negotiations. At the sa...

Russian international money transfer service Zolotaya Korona, or Golden Crown, has restricted transfers from Russia to Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and several other countries after the European Union...

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov’s official visit to Moscow ended without any high-profile agreements, but it produced a politically important result: Russia and Azerbaijan confirmed that...

Serdar Berdimuhamedov’s visit to Georgia showed that Ashgabat is seeking to turn its ports, gas reserves and geographical position into a new route to European markets Turkmenistan’s President Serdar...

Why the Largest Drone Campaign of the War Could Transform the Conflict—but Is Unlikely to Quickly Change Vladimir Putin’s Calculus Wars rarely end solely on the battlefield. More often, they conclude...