Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s decision to stir up highly publicized trouble with Russia caught the Kremlin completely off guard since he’s close to Putin and their countries are officially strategic allies. Three separate officials have therefore posited that “certain...
Foreign Affairs’ recent article about “How to Survive the New Nuclear Age” contained some interesting information about Pakistan. Citing US intelligence sources, the authors claimed that “Washington will have no choice but to treat the country as a nuclear...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was hitherto known as a pragmatic leader who was actively multi-aligning between competing power centers. As part of that policy, Azerbaijan and Russia became strategic allies, yet he suddenly jeopardized their mutually beneficial relations by...
Trump told the media earlier in the week that “We'll see what happens. I'm watching it very closely” when asked about reports that Russia is gearing up for a large-scale offensive in Ukraine’s Sumy Region. This follows the Wall...
The latest developments in the South Caucasus are connected to the expansion of Turkiye’s sphere of influence eastwards towards the Caspian Sea and thenceforth Central Asia. The unrest in Armenia is driven by the opposition’s concerns that Prime Minister...
Serbia surprised some observers after its President and Prime Minister assured Russia that it’ll no longer indirectly arm Ukraine, which came after Russia’s Foreign Spy Service (SVR) said that Serbia hasn’t discontinued this trade that it first raised awareness...
Russian-Azerbaijani relations are in trouble as a result of two scandals. The first concerns the recent police raid against suspected ethnic Azeri criminals in Yekaterinburg, during which time two of them died in circumstances that are now being investigated....
India found itself at odds with the SCO once again less than two weeks since it clarified that it didn’t participate in the group’s joint statement on the Iranian-Israeli War. This time its Defense Minister refused to sign the...
Armenia is experiencing yet another round of unrest, the background of which RT explained here, which can be summarized as growing opposition against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from civil society and the church over his foreign policy, increasingly authoritarian...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov shared some insight into his country’s thinking the future of strategic arms control in an interview with TASS in early June. He began by clarifying that Ukraine’s strategic drone strikes in early June...
