UKRAINE / RUSSIA. The ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, sparked by the Euromaidan protests in Kiev exactly one year ago, now feels like a proxy of th...
RUSSIA. Last month’s downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in Eastern Ukraine has been something of a game changer for Russian President Vladimir V. Put...
U.S.A. Is President Obama right to go along with the European allies imposing sanctions, more sanctions and further sanctions on Russia? Notwithstanding the fac...
LATIN AMERICA. A new world order with China’s growing influence has emerged in Fortaleza, where Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) met for a...
CENTRAL ASIA. Recent ideological and strategic initiatives of the USA, Russia and especially China, indicate that the scenario of a big geopolitical game in Cen...
NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A. All eyes are on Ukraine right now, as the world watches in fear, waiting to see if Russian troops will seize more parts of the country, af...
RUSSIA. The annexation of Crimea is an accomplished fact. It is blind eyed to think that Moscow would take the decision to cancel the takeover of Crimea, due to...
GLOBAL. The successful alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union brought victory and an end to World War II. However, peace didn’t last long. Admi...
CHISINAU, MOLDOVA. The question of Transnistria echoes again (also called Trans-Dniester) after the events in Ukraine. Russian and Tiraspol authorities and poli...
UKRAINE. A further escalation of the Ukrainian crisis may cause dreadful tectonic shifts both at regional and global level politics. Russia’s reaction to the Uk...
CRIMEA. If Crimea returns to Russia, what might it mean for Crimean Tatars? The Crimean Peninsula has been a part of empires for over 2,700 years. National Geog...
EURASIA. The crisis between Russia and Ukraine caused deep concern among the authoritarian governments in Central Asia. Now they face a dilemma. The military mo...
CRIMEA, UKRAINE. The coup d’état and ongoing internal political unrest in Ukraine, which ousted Viktor Yanukovych and brought a new interim government, seems to...
UKRAINE. Beginning in November 2013, the Ukrainian political crisis began from the diverging paths of signing an association agreement with the EU or joining Ru...
