Independent journalist Konrad Rękas raised awareness in late August of a law that Ukraine quietly passed in July 2025 regarding communist-era Poland’s “Operation Vistula”. It led to the deportation of Ukrainian-identifying East Slavs to their namesake Soviet Republic and...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) referenced the EU’s summertime disbursement of the first €1 billion to Ukraine for drone procurement out of the €6 billion promised for this program in an article late last month about how “Ukraine’s Drone...
The Governor of Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago with special rights for several dozen countries that include Russia per its eponymous 1920 treaty, unexpectedly seized a Russian research vessel per Oslo’s orders to enforce an over $4 billion 2023 Hague...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent interview with RBC was more than just the standard fare since he shared some interesting tidbits about his country’s policies therein. The first such one concerned Russia’s unequal membership in the G8 whereby...
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...
