Sanctions on Rosneft’s Subsidiary- a Signal to Russia?
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the
Treasury (OFAC) imposed sanctions on a Rosneft subsidiary. On February 18,
2020, US...
Strategic Partnership, Arctic-Style: How Russia and China Play the Game
Russian-Chinese technical-military cooperation in the 1990s started
when the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) initiated large-scale
rearmament based on Russian technologies. About 80% of Russian armaments...
Qassem Soleimani’s Broken Dream in Central Asia
Exactly two months ago, Iranian Major
General Qassem Soleimani was killed, whom the Shiite world considered a national hero, while the Sunni
regimes of the Arabian...
Sixty Years and Still Growing Stronger As UN University
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, one of Russia's
largest internationally oriented, educational and research
institutions, has marked 60th year of its establishment with series
of activities including an evening...
Putin’s Truth in the Era of Post-Truth
Every
day the newsfeed looks increasingly more like a rising tide of provocative
articles on the events of World War II, Nazis, concentration camps, the USSR,
Putin,...
Iran looms large in Central Asia despite sanctions and Saudi financial muscle
Saudi Arabia may have been getting more than it bargained for when
authorities in Khujand, Tajikistan’s second largest city, ordered that the
city’s largest and most...
Putin’s Message to African Envoys
Russian President Vladimir Putin has received, in accordance with the
established tradition, letters of credence from 23 new ambassadors in the
Alexander Hall of the Grand...
Looking Westward (Again): Russia House at Davos 2020
Rudyard Kipling once wrote that ‘the Russian is a delightful person till
he tucks his shirt in. As an Oriental, he is charming. It is...
The Paradoxes of Social and Economic Development in Central Asia
Central Asia is
a region with very uneven social and economic dynamics. It is rapidly breaking
down into areas with different quality of life, economic growth,...
Is Putinism Here to Stay?
Russian President Vladimir Putin raised
more than a few eyebrows when –in the context of the early January 2020 edition
of his state of the nation...