China’s strategic ties with Russia are rock-solid
Since China and Russia have forged the comprehensive strategic partnership at the high-level unseen in history, there have been inquiries into its endurances. Given...
Russia’s Timing for Peace Has Long Passed
Russia has been deep in the Ukrainian war quagmire for a long time. With the worsening economic situation, mounting political pressure, and abject military...
Read Another Book
Public commentary on politics often relies on metaphors from works of fiction. At the same time, the set of books that journalists, politicians and...
National Security PEMSII Analysis of Russia
Tensions between Washington and Moscow have increased dramatically since the invasion of Ukraine, making a conflict between the United States and Russia more likely...
An alternative World Order: From the Lens of Russia and Iran
In today's era, some parties, including the movements of political Islam, Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Vladimir Putin,...
The Perils of Russian mobilisation
The unexpected military defeat in the Kharkiv oblast and major reversals in the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson oblasts has forced Vladimir Putin to announce...
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Game that Wasn’t Saved and Had No Cheat Codes
Mikhail Gorbachev’s death caused a surge of debates on his political heritage. As expected, opinions were split. Negative comments focused on the Soviet Union’s...
Russia-Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Relations Still at Exploratory Stage
Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Zimbabwe Jacob Mudenda and his delegation paid a reciprocal working visit late September to Moscow,...
The Road Ahead: Dissecting Russia’s Economic Diplomacy With Africa
During the September ceremony to receive foreign ambassadors, Russian leader Vladimir Putin offered spiteful goal-setting policy outlines and some aspects of lofty Russia’s economic...
The Alliance of Downtrodden Empires
There are many commonalities and differences, to the point of contradiction, in the Russian, Iranian, and Turkish political and economic positions, calculations, and priorities....