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All the EU Gaffs and Bluffs: Why the Russia’s warning should be taken seriously?
If there were those in today's generation of grandparents (and grandmothers, of course), and this author firmly believes that he was not the only...
New START and the Prospects for Weapons Limitation in Russian-American Relations
Now that the New START Treaty is extended, the parties need to make efforts to work out a realistic new agreement that takes into...
Understanding Russia’s Financial Strategy for Africa
In order to raise its geopolitical influence, Russia has been making efforts identifying mega infrastructure projects such as nuclear power and energy, natural resources...
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...