The lost concept of the "Russian World"

The official account leaves ample room for speculation: behind the references to trade and humanitarian cooperation may lie the fate of prisoners, a reshaping of regional commerce and a cautious search for a mediator on Ukraine The official...

The Russian president presented negotiations as a possible outcome of the conflict, while tying them to military success and reserving for Moscow the right to decide who is worthy of becoming its interlocutor In Vladimir Putin’s address to the...

Nikol Pashinyan’s statement is one of the clearest signals yet that Yerevan no longer regards Russia’s military presence as an unconditional guarantee of Armenian security. Relations between Russia and Armenia, long described by Moscow as an...

The 113,000 border crossings recorded at Upper Lars have revived fears of mobilisation. Yet the data do not so far confirm a new mass migration to the South Caucasus. The Upper Lars crossing between Russia and Georgia has once again become a...