The latest developments at the north of Kosovo are reminiscent of the events from the nineties of the past century and threaten to escalate into conflict. Over the past several years there was a noticeable absence of EU- mediated dialogue between official Belgrade and Pristina. The responsibility does not rest …

Tehran is stringing out the nuclear negotiations endlessly with the expectation that President Joe Biden will not admit that the talks have failed. After such an admission, the public would likely pressure the administration to stop offering Iran stealth economic relief through the lax enforcement of sanctions. Rigorous enforcement would, …

Everyone knows that seniors turn out to vote at a higher rate than any other age group. In 2020, three-fourths of the people over the age of 65 voted, while the voting booths attracted barely half of those aged 18 to 24. Yet in the last election you would be hard-pressed to …

Over the past few months, Russia watchers have been sounding the alarm about the domestic ramifications of Moscow’s faltering campaign in Ukraine, which appears to have blossomed into a dense nightmare of unintended consequences. The rise of a new and still rare breed of Russian political actors who espouse hard-line …

In 2022, the Bosnian prosecution charged 60 people with war crimes, although ten of them are outside the country so can’t be brought to trial – a problem that the new chief prosecutor has promised to tackle.The Bosnian state prosecution filed 19 indictments in 2022, charging 60 people with war …

Concerns have been looming large on the sanctions on Russian oil, which is heading for another major oil shock in the world. Russia is the second biggest exporter of oil in the world, and the EU is the biggest importer of oil from Russia. The EU has prohibited maritime exports of Russian oil and levied price …

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia on 7 December 2022 has marked a turning point in Beijing’s foreign policy towards the Persian Gulf states. This three-day trip included three summits: One with President Xi and the Saudi Crown Prince on behalf of King Salman; a second between China and the …

« Depuis des décennies, l’idée de démanteler l’Union soviétique et la Russie est constamment cultivée dans les pays occidentaux. Malheureusement, à un moment donné, l’idée d’utiliser l’Ukraine pour atteindre cet objectif a été conçue. En fait, c’est pour empêcher un tel développement que nous avons lancé l’opération militaire spéciale (OMS). C’est …

Александр ДугинРусские и германские элементы в становлении геополитики-2 Мы рассмотрели основные направления в англосаксонской атлантистской геополитике — в геополитике-1. Она представляет собой взгляд на мир со стороны «цивилизации Моря», «морского могущества» и рассматривает мир как поле для укрепления и расширения зоны атлантистского контроля. В качестве главного объекта такой геополитики выступает ее «противоположность» — …

The US Treasury Department designated four individuals and two entities accused of enabling the terrorist group’s recruitment and financial transfers. The US Treasury Department on Thursday designated what it described as a Turkey-based financial network of the Islamic State (IS) that moved funds to and from Syria and Iraq.  In …