Greece sealed a €3 billion deal with Israel in late August to build the “Achilles Shield”, which “will provide a complete array of defense weapons against a range of threats from ballistic missiles to drones”. This is the latest...
Zelensky said that Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will share with Putin a proposal that amounts to Article 5-like security guarantees for Ukraine during their meeting in St. Petersburg. It was argued here that Putin might agree to that...
Lithuania claimed that an explosives-laden Ukrainian drone that recently crashed in its territory on the same day as a major Ukrainian attack against St. Petersburg entered the country from Poland, while Poland said that it’ll demand an explanation from...
Putin assessed during his Q&A session at the Valdai Club’s latest annual conference that recent European fearmongering about Russia “is driven by the serious deterioration in their economic and domestic political situation. Just look at what is happening to...
The Azeri-Turkish brotherhood has been badly bruised by their ongoing feud that officially only concerns the first banning the hijab in schools but informally involves Turkiye’s perception that Azerbaijan has become an Israeli puppet and Azerbaijan’s perception that Turkiye...
Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Albert Khorev confirmed that “While Russia’s Interior Minister was visiting Islamabad, the head of Russian intelligence was in Kabul, and the Deputy Secretary of our Security Council was in New Delhi. All of them also...
Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev published a piece at Vzglyad about how “Russia is assessing old and new threats in Central Asia.” He touched upon their shared interests in thwarting the threat posed by ISIS-K in Afghanistan and...
Former Special Representative of Pakistan for Afghanistan Asif Durrani published a thought-provoking piece on the Russian-Pakistani dispute over Taliban-led Afghanistan for Arab News. He expressed discomfort with Russia’s rapid rapprochement with the Taliban, the legitimacy that this provides the...
Netanyahu displayed a map of three regional alliances during a press conference over the weekend that’s since gone viral on social media due to its implications. The first alliance is the “Hexagon” between Israel and the UAE, the second...
Pakistan’s newspaper of record Dawn recently published an editorial titled “State of denial” wherein they argued that the Taliban’s denials of ties to terrorist groups “hold no water” despite Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praising them twice this month...
