Eurasia

The success of Turkish-made drones in Ukraine is the most obvious sign of Ankara’s backing for Kyiv, but fear of Russian backlash is making Turkey tread lightly. Imagery of a burned-out Russian military convoy in Ukraine shared on social media over the weekend credited its destruction to Turkish-made drones. Turkish …

Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s second-largest city on Monday, rocking a residential neighborhood, and closed in on the capital, Kyiv, in a 17-mile convoy of hundreds of tanks and other vehicles, as talks aimed at stopping the fighting yielded only an agreement to keep talking. The country’s embattled president said the …

NATO member Turkey changed its rhetoric to call Russia’s assault on Ukraine a “war” on Sunday and pledged to implement parts of an international pact that would potentially limit the transit of Russian warships from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, Reuters reported. Kyiv had appealed to Ankara to block …

Den Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine gemeinsam zu helfen, ist ein Gebot der Mitmenschlichkeit. Und auch im Sinne der EU. Es ist eine tragische, aber auch kuriose Wendung der Geschichte, dass nun ausgerechnet Polen die Hauptlast der europäischen Flüchtlingspolitik schultert. Seit Jahren weigert sich Warschau, Flüchtlinge aufzunehmen, und blockiert so gemeinsam …

« Si le monde a changé, notre politique doit, elle aussi, changer. » C’est en ces termes que la ministre allemande des Affaires étrangères a justifié, dimanche, devant les députés réunis en session extraordinaire, la révolution copernicienne entamée par la République fédérale en révisant ses positions sur les sanctions contre …

Putin, Donbas bölgesiyle sınırlı bir müdahale ile yetinmedi. Putin’in tarihi konuşması Ukrayna’yı yok sayan ifadeler içeriyordu. Ertesi gün ise beklentinin ötesinde bir saldırı başlattı. Ukrayna’nın birçok şehrinde stratejik noktaları bombalamaya başladı. Kiev’e yönelerek seçilmiş iktidarı devirme arzusu ise dünyanın meseleye bakışını değiştirdi. Putin’in ön görülemeyen bu tutumu Batı İttifakındaki dağınık …

Дорогі російські читачі, які не цікавляться політикою (я знаю, вас тут багато). Ви розумієте, що сьогоднішнім наказом про приведення російського ядерного арсеналу в режим бойового чергування Путін поставив планету на межу світової війни? Хочу звернутися до військових. Якщо надійде той самий наказ, не виконуйте його. Не беріть на себе відповідальність …

Germany shocked the world this weekend with its rapid repudiation of its core post-Cold War foreign policy principles. President Biden should take note. One can hardly overstate the significance of the developments in Berlin. The German government’s sudden decision to help to rapidly rearm and supply Ukraine with lethal military …

The main result of the January 2022 Kazakhstan protests was to solidify the transfer of power from Nursultan Nazarbayev to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev that began with the latter’s assumption of the Kazakh presidency in 2019. While there are still many unknowns relating to the protests, which led to at least 225 …

As of this writing, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is hunkered down in his bunker somewhere in Kiev, as the sound of the encroaching war gets closer and closer. A grim scene, to be sure. All the US and EU kisses and roses leading up to this end have turned to …