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What Russia Wants In The Balkans
Popular narratives on Russia's geopolitical interests in the Balkans point to two rather divergent directions. One of them, inherited from the 19th-century strategic thought,...
23 Billion Rubles Invested in Moscow’s Telecommunications Infrastructure
Moscow’s mobile internet is one of the most affordable amongst the world’s megacities, costing 2-4 times less than in Barcelona, London and Stockholm, and...
Abkhazia Is Not Crimea but Everything Is Set to Become It
New suspicions over the status of Abkhazia emerge along with every political move of Russia. While the leadership of South Ossetia has been wholeheartedly...
Barriers to de-Dollarization Within BRICS
This article explores systemic and market barriers preventing the wider use of BRICS national currencies in trade, including currency swaps mechanisms and reasons for...
The Media System Within and Beyond the West: Australian, Russian and Chinese Media
This article takes Australian, Russian and Chinese media as three examples to differentiate media systems and elucidate their political or economic context to understand...
Lithuanian-Russian relations: An ambassador’s view
This year we are marking two centennial anniversaries: the signing of the Peace Treaty between Lithuania and Soviet Russia, and the establishment of the...
The EU Sputnik Borrell in Moscow: An aftermath, of Diplomacy
After almost unanimous assessment of the Western media and analysts (one would be inclined to conclude they are “gleichgeschaltet”, modeled on the methods of...
A Clear View Eastwards: Russia and Germany
“Politik ist, wenn man Gottes Schritt durch die Weltgeschichte hört, dann zuspringt und versucht, einen Zipfel seines Mantels zu fassen.”Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898)
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Post-war Armenia: New remedies for old maladies
՛՛The Republic of Armenia is the guarantor of the security of Artsakh՛՛,- is stated in the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Armenia...
Second meeting of the Coordinating Council under the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum
The second meeting of the Coordinating Council under the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum took place on 2nd February via video conference.
Participants included Deputy Foreign Minister...