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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...
Oil Wars: Russia and Saudi Arabia in the forefront
Recent developments in Italy and the stock
market have things in common. Both came as an alarming surprise; while Italian
authorities took stringent measures to lock...
«Defender-2020»: How NATO’s exercises in Eastern Europe will affect Russia
On February 21, Jens Stoltenberg announced that NATO was launching an
extensive military exercise. 85 Abrams tanks, 45 armored personnel
carriers, heavy machine guns, mortars, around...
President Zelensky’s evolution: One step forward, two steps back
President Zelensky’s course is levelling off – it is evolving to match
the "traditional Ukrainian reality." However, Zelensky started his
presidency by swimming against the current,...
Russia-Africa Relations: Highlights of Valentina Matviyenko’s Trip to Namibia and Zambia
On February 18 - 20, Chairperson of the Federation
Council (the Upper House or the Senate), Valentina Matviyenko, headed a Russian
delegation on a three-day working...
Russian Head Games: American Citizens, American Puppets
“Analysis gave me great freedom of
emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.”~
Hedy Lamarr
There has been a steady...
South Caucasus’ Role will be overshadowed by the US-Russia Competition Elsewhere in Eurasia
Recent geopolitical
developments in Eurasia indicate that the South Caucasus’ relative importance
could be overshadowed by West-Russia competition over Belarus, Ukraine and
Central Asia. This trend was...
After MSC: A New EU and a New Strategic NATO concept?
There are many reactions to the Munich
Security Conference and the speeches of Macron, Pompeo, Laschet and Steinmeier.
Two are documented here. Firstly, the more pro-Russian...
Does NATO respond positively to the Turkish supererogation?
Turkey is once again turning to the West, while over the past two years,
it had been distancing from the West and trying to collaborate...
Russia-Indonesia: 70 years of friendship
“Jauh di mata, dekat di hati .” This is how Lyudmila
Georgievna Vorobieva, Russian ambassador to Indonesia, characterized the
relationship between the two countries.
In fact, in the...