It’s not hyperbole to describe Georgy Toloraya, whose many accolades include being the Head of the Center for Russian Strategy in Asia at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as Russia’s top expert on Asia....
It was assessed in May after the Russian Ambassador’s interview with TASS that “Finland Is On Track To Become One Of Russia’s Most Intractable Foes” due to its new role in NATO’s military surveillance operations against Russia, its rapid...
New Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s top foreign policy advisor told local media in late August that “Bangladesh maintains a positive approach towards the possibility of joining an economic or defence framework involving Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye”. Their...
Wartime Ukraine’s domestic political dynamics have always been murky, but no objective observer hitherto doubted the existence of factions within its military, intelligence, security, and political institutions nor the existence of rivalries between them, which have just been confirmed....
The Russian Foreign Ministry released a report “On the situation regarding the glorification of Nazism, the spread of neo-Nazism, and other practices that contribute to the escalation of contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance”. The...
The New York Times (NYT) interviewed Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul as part of their coverage of the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power. Muttaqi invited the US to reopen its embassy and invest...
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk predictably opined on his country’s contemporary military-security policy during Armed Forces Day on 15 August. Perhaps the most interesting statement that he made concerns his proposal for the creation of a Baltic sub-bloc within...
Finnish President Alexander Stubb bucked the trend of fearmongering about Russia in his interview with Bild. Instead of claiming that it’s plotting to test NATO’s resolve like American media reported was the reason why the CIA chief recently paid...
The Financial Times (FT) reported that Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop its own ramjet propulsion system since 2023, which is required for cruise missiles that the FT’s contributors claimed would primarily be used to hit regional US...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was surprisingly critical in the remarks that he made during his participation in the SCO+ meeting that took place after the SCO leaders’ summit in Bishkek in early September. He declared that “People expect concrete...
