Post-Soviet region

The Azerbaijani president’s meeting with Viktor Yushchenko does not prove that a secret channel exists. But when viewed alongside Baku’s recent contacts with Kyiv and Moscow, it suggests that Azerbaij...

The Drone and Missile War in the Russia-Ukraine War The scale of strikes, weapon systems, air defence, destruction and economic cost The Russia-Ukraine war began as a conventional contest of artillery...

Andrei Klepach is not forecasting Russia’s imminent collapse. His conclusion is more troubling: the war economy can remain resilient while steadily losing investment, technology and prospects for deve...

Sergey Lavrov’s comments shattered hopes for an early ceasefire, but politics alone cannot explain the scale of the decline. High interest rates, economic stagnation and the market’s dependence on ret...

Russia could retaliate against vessels belonging to states involved in detaining Russian merchant ships and confiscating their cargoes, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, warning of a further escala...

A visit to Turkmenistan by Swiss Foreign Minister and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Chairperson-in-Office Ignazio Cassis underscored Central Asia’s growing importance to Europea...

The Russian deputy foreign minister’s extensive interview amounted to a policy warning to Ukraine and the former Soviet republics: Moscow still regards their sovereignty as limited by Russian interest...

Mass attacks on Kharkiv, Odesa and other Ukrainian cities, followed by the deaths of civilians in Nizhnekamsk, show how Russia’s invasion is turning into a war of attrition in which distance from the...

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...