“We demonstrated weakness, and the weak get beaten”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in September 2004 after Chechen terrorists, under the command of Shamil Basayev, occupied a school in...
After successfully eliminating any potential opponents, Russian leader Vladimir Putin won the presidential election with ease. Now that he has secured his sixth term in the Kremlin, the former KGB...
Despite relatively tense political relations between the European Union and Azerbaijan, Brussels is aiming to strengthen energy cooperation with Baku. In an attempt to end its dependency on Russian...
Ever since Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive failed to achieve the expected result, Western media and officials have been repeatedly accusing Russia of planning to invade neighboring European...
Azerbaijan and Armenia – two neighboring South Caucasus nations that have fought two major wars over the past 35 years – seem to be on the brink of another large-scale conflict that threatens to...
Two years after Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and almost ten years since the war in the Donbass broke out, Russian forces have captured the town of Avdiivka – one of the most...
Kazakhstan, the largest and wealthiest country in Central Asia, is aiming to significantly increase its economic cooperation with the European Union. At the same time, a “contractual framework”...
Over the years, Russian propaganda has been spreading rumors of the alleged Western intention to abandon Ukraine, as well as of an “imminent collapse” of the Eastern European country. But after...
For the Kremlin, Russian nationalists, as well as anti-systemic communists, represent a far greater threat than pro-Western liberals. Ahead of the presidential election, scheduled for March 17,...
The Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) seems to exist solely on paper. In reality, with the exception of Belarus, not a single CSTO member supports Russia’s war on Ukraine,...
