Drones and transport could reshape Eurasian geopolitics
When US intelligence asserted that Iran was selling hundreds of combat drones to Russia, it was signalling more than Iranian support for Vladimir Putin’s...
Toward a China-Russia axis?
China and Russia spent the last decade strengthening their mutual trade, political and military ties, developing energy infrastructure in Russian territory and uninterruptedly consolidating...
Russia Struggles to Appear On Africa’s Horizon
As popularly known to African leaders, Russia has thousands of decade-old undelivered pledges and several bilateral agreements signed with individual countries, yet to be...
Tashkent‘s Historic Opportunity to Emerge as a Regional Leader
The people of Uzbekistan look to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev with hope that would have seemed impossible under the 27 year despotic regime of Islam...
Escaping a bear hug: Kazakhstan seeks closer ties to US and Europe
Eight years ago, Kazakh shrugged off Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks suggesting he could pull a Ukraine on Kazakhstan. They did so again in...
The Axis of Russia, Iran, and China: Birth of a New World Order?
Five months after the 9/11 attacks, US President George W. Bush asserted his acrid perception of the enemies of the United States by introducing...
Digital Authorianism in Russia
The Soviet Union was purportedly a sovereign socialist state inside a federal system, regulated by a series of constitutions. Until the late 1980s, however,...
The Pendulum Has Started To Swing Moscow’s Way
As the Russian army is starting to gain a foothold in the war after an early setback, the time is ripe for the United...
Mikhail Bogdanov’s Passion for Africa and the Critical Russia’s Policy Debates -Part 1
Russian Presidential Special Representative for Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov, in an April interview to Interfax news agency, offered an insight into aspects...
China and Russia: Dialog in the Face of External Challenges
When talking about external challenges for China–Russia relations, we should first clarify what they mean given the current political situation. These challenges can be...