Post-Soviet region
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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When the gunfire finally fell silent in May 1994, the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan seemed more like a desperate pause in a war that had destroyed lives, displaced more than a million peopl...
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This week, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan paid a state visit to Kazakhstan. Diplomats on both sides were quick to describe the visit as far more than ceremonial. The two-day trip concluded w...
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The twenty-eight-point peace plan developed by United States officials and inspired by Donald Trump’s campaign promise to “end the war” is being discussed quietly among diplomats and defence ministers...
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The missile strike that damaged the Azerbaijani Embassy compound in Kyiv on 14 November has shown how relations between Baku and Moscow have entered a phase of instability and mistrust, where rumours...
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The state visit of Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to Uzbekistan this week has become one of the most ambitious attempts in recent years to transform Central Asia’s rhetoric of regional c...