Post-Soviet region
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In recent months, Ukraine has increasingly pushed the war deeper into territory that Moscow long considered a secure rear base. But the overnight strikes on the Kerch ferry crossing, Port Kavkaz, oil...
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When the lid of an oil reservoir at Moscow’s Kapotnya oil refinery was blown into the air by a Ukrainian drone strike, it was not just another wartime video. It was a symbol. A symbol of how the front...
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What Could the New Strike Strategy Lead To? Ukraine is expanding both the geography and intensity of strikes against Russian industrial, military-industrial, and energy facilities in response to conti...
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Why the Diplomatic Bargain Between Lukashenko and Washington Continues When Belarusian opposition leader in exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Reuters last week that further stages of the release of...
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How the Russia–Ukraine Conflict Divided Diasporas and Forced Baku into a Difficult Choice The war between Russia and Ukraine long ago ceased to be merely a conflict between two states. Over four years...
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When Vladimir Putin stepped onto the stage of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in the summer of 2022, Russia was experiencing one of the most dramatic moments in its modern history. Jus...
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A Letter Across the Front Line: Why Zelensky Addressed Putin Directly Wars rarely end when one side stops shooting. More often, they begin to end when one side starts speaking differently. That is why...
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Russia is ready to facilitate the development of Azerbaijan's cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and is also interested in Baku's participation in the activities of the Eura...
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Just days before Armenia's parliamentary elections, the political atmosphere in the country has reached a boiling point. What began as another domestic confrontation between Prime Minister Nikol Pashi...
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When the leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union gathered in Astana on May 29, the official agenda appeared thoroughly technocratic. Artificial intelligence, digital transformation, common energy marke...
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Armenia's dependence on Russian natural gas has once again come under scrutiny amid deteriorating relations between Moscow and Yerevan. Russian media outlets increasingly emphasize that the Armenian e...
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The speech delivered by Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov at the meeting of the Council of Heads of Security and Special Services of CIS member states became one of the harshest an...
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The phone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was more than another diplomatic exchange between two rival powers. Judging by Moscow’s statements...