Eurasia

New evidence emerged at a Senate hearing and in media reports about the Polish government’s alleged use of the Pegasus spyware against both the opposition and the ruling Law and Justice party’s own former allies. The Polish Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, CBA purchased the controversial Pegasus spyware in 2017 with money …

Außenministerin Baerbock und Bundeskanzler Scholz haben Deutschlands Position im Ukraine-Konflikt deutlich gemacht: Kommunikation statt Konfrontation, aber ohne dabei Russlands Verhalten schön zu reden. Richtig so. Wir können noch miteinander reden. Das war die Botschaft von Deutschlands erster Botschafterin, Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock, heute in Moskau. Reden – nicht gegeneinander, sondern miteinander. …

Roberta Metsola began her political career as a university student campaigning for Malta to join the EU as its smallest state. Less than two decades later, she has been elected to preside over its most important democratic institution. Former Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, said he recognised her talents from her …

The statement from the First President came just after evidence of elite conflict began surfacing in earnest, with suggestions of a purge of Nazarbayev elites. After two weeks with nary a peep, save a spokesman statement that he had not fled the country, Kazakhstan’s First President Nursultan Nazarbayev surfaced with …

India and China held a 14th round of military talks earlier this week to resolve the border confrontation between the two countries that began in mid-2020. The corps commander-level talks were held at the Chushul-Moldo border point on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that separates …

The standard logic of the division of labor between Moscow and Beijing in Central Asia holds that Russia is responsible for security and China is in charge of the economy. Following that narrative, it can be asserted that neither power suffered losses during this month’s tumultuous events in Kazakhstan. The …

Despite the Russian Buildup, the Status Quo Still Serves Both Sides In the days leading up to and following last week’s video summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, there has been intense speculation that Moscow is on the verge of a new military incursion into …

Persistent Divisions Will Preclude His Dreams of Global Power On May 11, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy hosted an extraordinary gathering of American cultural talent to welcome France’s minister of culture, André Malraux. The dinner—which included luminaries such as the novelist Saul Bellow, the painter Mark Rothko, the playwright …

A Syrian government delegation visited the Russian-backed breakaway republic this week. Ports in Syria and Crimea have signed agreements on boosting economic cooperation. Permanent representative of Crimea Georgy Muradov said yesterday that seaports in Crimea signed an agreement with Syria’s port of Latakia on the Mediterranean coast. The deals are …

There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the union organizing and strikes by workers at Amazon, Starbucks, Uber, Lyft, John Deere, Kellogg, the Special Metals plant in Huntington, West Virginia, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, the Northwest Carpenters …