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...
Russia’s turn to Asia, Africa and Latin America
The aggression on Ukraine brought about a drastic geopolitical divide between the West and Russia, almost completely isolating the Russian economy from Western markets...
The EU Returns to Central Asia
2022 will go down in history as a watershed moment in EU-Russia relations. The invasion of Ukraine was a primary cause, but it may...
Russia’s Military Diplomacy in Africa: High Risk, Low Reward and Limited ImpactÂ
The South African Journal of International Affairs, a foreign policy think tank, has released a special researched report on Russia-Africa. According to the report,...
Rethinking the Soviet Experience : Politics and History since 1917- Book Review
The book was written in 1984 and is a collection of essays on Soviet politics and Sovietology, from the time of the Russian Revolution...
Kazakhstan’s Reforms and Future Perspectives Create Basis for Broader External Cooperation
Kazakhstan, one of the Russian neighbours and former Soviet republics, opens its doors for a broader external expansion. Given its geographical location and combined...
Annexation of Ukrainian oblasts to undermine the Russian Constitution
On September 30, 2022, Russia declared its annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts – Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. Not only none of the oblasts...