Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that the authorities discovered two bombs planted along the TurkStream gas pipeline transiting through his country. Their location in close proximity to the Hungarian border suggests that it was the target of this attempted...
Top Russian expert Dmitry Trenin was just elected President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), one of his country’s top think tanks, and gave his first interview since then to Kommersant wherein he issued a clarion call for...
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk gave a detailed interview to TASS about relations with Armenia after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s latest meeting with Putin at the Kremlin. The theme that pervaded throughout was Armenia’s efforts to find a...
The Financial Times recently reported that “Gulf states consider new pipelines to avoid Strait of Hormuz”. Per their assessment, “In the near term, the most viable options may be to expand the East-West pipeline and also Abu Dhabi’s existing...
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna hosted a delegation of Russian lawmakers who visited DC after the sanctions upon them were temporarily lifted to facilitate their travels there. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov assessed the talks that they held with their bipartisan...
Putin recently hosted Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for candid talks ahead of June’s next parliamentary elections. He conveyed that his campaign shouldn’t indulge in Russophobia, warned about the incompatibility of Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)...
Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who represents the interests of his country’s reformist (moderate) faction against its principalist (conservative) rivals, published a proposal about “How Iran Should End the War” at Foreign Affairs. He began by extolling...
The BBC published a detailed report in late March about an alleged Russian operation to trigger anti-government protests in Angola, which drew attention to the trial of two Russians who were arrested last year on national security charges such...
The Ukrainian Embassy in Japan complained on X about a pro-Russian event that was recently held on the premises of the Japanese Diet but importantly not on the parliamentary floor. Takeyuki Tanaka, an historian who leads the Japan-Russia Friendship...
Top Russian expert Timofei Bordachev published another article on the South Caucasus and Central Asia titled “Eurasia’s Ghosts of the Great Game”. It follows his earlier piece that was responded to here. Just like that one, his latest conspicuously...
