“Putin needs to reassure the Russian public”

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...

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 security. Azerbaijan is not choosing Kyiv over...