Out of the frying pan into the fire

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 European transport, energy and economic policy. Cassis...

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 interests. In an extensive interview with the state news...

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 front no longer guarantees safety. In the early...

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 government formed after the vote indicate that...