Great Powers Competition in Moldova
Moldova is the forgotten epicenter of tensions between the West and Russia, located between Romania and Ukraine, with no direct access to the sea...
Russia and the Judgment of Solomon in Nagorno-Karabakh
On November 10, 2020, Moscow announced its decision to send peacekeeping troops to Nagorno-Karabakh following the attack of its Mi-24 helicopter over Armenia, thus...
Who’s Who in Nagorno-Karabakh
The return of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous territory that has been disputed between Azerbaijan and Armenia for several centuries, raises the fundamental question...
CIA National Intelligence Estimates on the Cross-Strait and Sino-Russian Relations
In July 2011, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) published a declassified National Intelligence Estimate on "Russian-Chinese Relations: Perspectives and Implications" dating back to...
Consequences of the Diplomatic Recognition of Abkhazia by the Syrian Arab Republic
Abkhazia is a partially recognized state — Russia (2008), Nicaragua
(2008), Venezuela (2009), Nauru (2009), Syria (2018) — of 8,660km2 and 240,000
inhabitants located on the...
Geopolitics and e-Diplomacy of Estonia
Around 1,500 BC, a group of nine asteroids crashed on the island of Saaremaa in Western Estonia,
incinerating all kind of life-form within a radius...