New Kazakhstan vs. Divided Kazakhstan: Policies Critical for Tokayev
On November 20, 2022, Kazakhstan saw an early presidential election. According to the amendments made to the country’s constitution this fall, the head of...
Russia with Anti-Western Confrontation Approach Goes After African Leaders
Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov has planned two African tours during the first quarter 2023, diplomatic rhetoric and anti-Western slogans, often unremittingly smearing and...
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...
Sanctions Against Russia: Have Their Limits Been Reached?
Russia has been the target of Western sanctions for several years. The main stages of the escalation were related to the events of 2014...
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-Ukraine’s Winter’s War
More than 10 months have passed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, and the conflict is still ongoing. No one knows when...
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,...