Any “red lines” left for Putin?
"Red lines" have become a ubiquitous narrative of Russian-initiated conflict with the West. Putin repeatedly used "red lines" as a warning metaphor for the...
Russia’s Support for Terrorism: A Carry-Over of Soviet Policy
During the Cold War, the Kremlin was a supporter of foreign terrorism, in order to destabilize enemy governments or to further Moscow’s policy objectives....
The Status of Crimea between Russia and Ukraine: The Reason Why China Stands to Neglect
The status of Crimea is a contentious issue between Russia and Ukraine. In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, a move that was widely...
Putin’s USSR 2.0 project to be undermined by his satellites
On January 18, 2023, the EU released a "joint motion for a resolution on the humanitarian consequences of the blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh," planning to...
Russia Early War Propaganda Campaign in Ukraine Crisis
Russia has a tradition of using propaganda for the mobilization of war. The Kremlin created a political institution back in 1918 also known as...
Orthodoxy and political thought in Contemporary Russia
The Impacts of Communism and Orthodoxy in Russia
Since the ancient eras of the early 20s, Russia has extensively undergone a series of related changes...
Bogdanov’s Passion for Africa and the Critical Russia’s Policy Debates -Part 3
In his series of end-year review reports, Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov, told local Russian media that Russia...
The international community’s response to the Putinization of the situation in Ukraine
Some ten months ago, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin decided to cure the country’s post-communist inferiority complex with a new sense of delusions of grandeur in...
Emerging economic partnerships without Russia: the shifting cooperation formats in Central Asia
Recent geopolitical developments have brought Central Asia and Caspian basin to the fore of regional rivalries as the countries of the region made crucial...
Ukrainian Crisis: No solution without Talks – View from Tunisia
In view of the dangerous escalation of the conflict in Ukraine and the alarming turn for the worse it took as well as the...