Post-Soviet region

Ukraine has signed 10-year agreements with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar to export counter-drone weapons to these countries. In total, similar requests have been received from 11 co...

After a catastrophe that could have undermined relations, Azerbaijan and Russia are quietly rebuilding ties — not through large-scale political gestures, but through a more stable and less visible mec...

When Prime Minister Inga Ruginene visited the capital of Azerbaijan, the focus was not on signed agreements — there were none — but on a deeper process: a reassessment of the role of small states in a...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s visit to Moscow last week has triggered a new round of tensions in Armenian-Russian relations. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to persuade Pashinya...

Russia has sharply escalated its criticism of the proposed “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP), with senior officials signalling that Moscow views the initiative as both illeg...

When Vladimir Putin addressed participants at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on March 26, he struck a familiar tone: resilience in the face of sanctions, adaptat...

Kazakhstan is gradually increasing its oil exports through Azerbaijan, strengthening the country’s role as a key transit energy hub in the Caspian region and reflecting broader changes in Eurasian ene...

Kazakhstan has taken a step that its leadership portrays as a historic recalibration of the state. In a nationwide referendum held on March 15, voters overwhelmingly backed a new constitution that res...

A series of drone strikes on Russian oil pipeline infrastructure in the Black Sea have disrupted shipments of Kazakh crude via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), exposing the vulnerability of one...

On January 29, former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan announced his intention to return to power in Armenia. He explained his decision by saying he wanted to 'the country from the crisis into whic...

The day before, the Armenian Foreign Ministry published a document defining the implementation procedure for the Trump Road for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) project. The document was pre...

On January 5, the presidents of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan gave extensive interviews to local journalists: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to the newspaper Turkistan in Kazakhstan, and Ilham Aliyev to a group of...

Almost four years after the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, it is becoming increasingly clear that the conflict has achieved many of the key strategic goals pursued by both Moscow and Western capita...

U.S. sanctions against Russia’s largest oil producers, including Rosneft, Lukoil, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz, are having a substantial impact on Russia’s export revenues and fiscal position, expo...

When the original 28-point plan by Donald Trump on Ukraine leaked to the press, the reaction was predictable and harsh. In Kyiv it was seen as an attempt to formalize defeat; in European capitals, as...

Do we want peace with Armenia? It seems like a strange question, but as it turns out, not really. Our society has had mixed reactions to visits to Yerevan and Baku by representatives of the expert com...