2018 World Cup offers Chechnya opportunity to play Middle Eastern politics
When strongman Ramzan Kadyrov last month opened The Local, a United Arab Emirates-funded luxury hotel in the Chechen capital of Grozny and prepared to...
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2018
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2018, one of the annual international platforms that brings together political, industry and business leaders to discuss the...
The Russian strategy towards North Africa
As John Mearsheimer quote "The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly...
The Great Russian involvement in Afghanistan
For the last 8 years Russia has been spending millions of dollars internationally in order to improve its public diplomacy. Afghanistan has become a...
Russkiy Mir Foundation and Russia’s national heritage
The phenomenon of the Russian world has become the center of attention in both academic circles and the public arena. The stability achieved only...
Authoritarianism in Russian Politics: State Reformation at stake?
Russia’s political development has been mixed since the fall of Soviet Union in 1991. An optimistic burst of activity in the early 1990s pushed...
Russia’s Rise in Africa
Six African Heads of State will be among global leaders and foreign dignitaries to eye-witness the official ceremony inaugurating the newly elected Russian leader,...
The Tmes for a Special Relationship Between Germany and Russia Are Over
Relations between Germany and Russia are in a state of severe crisis. At latest since the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict, but also even...
Russia: The Winner of the latest airstrikes against Syria
On April 21, one week after the U.S.-led airstrikes against Syria, Russian FM Lavrov said that Russia would sell S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria...
Russia’s demise in the Age of Information
We live in the time, where different pieces of information swarm around us, making it almost impossible to escape it.
Over the course of mass...