Eurasia

Much has already been said about the recent heightening of U.S.-China tensions and its potential fallout. What gets less attention is how the U.S. and China themselves perceive the status of their relationship, and how that affects their plans for the future. An analysis of prevailing elite opinion in the …

More even than most crises, the events unfolding in Kazakhstan in recent days can be read in myriad ways. On one level, it clearly appears to have resulted in yet another opportunity for Russian President Vladimir Putin to claw back control over domains lost by the Kremlin following the demise …

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan this past August brought an end to a 20-year war. But as a series of recent investigations by The New York Times has underscored, it also marked the beginning of postmortems about what the United States did right and, in some cases, did wrong. Drawing …

The advance could relieve pressure on embattled Marib if pro-government forces can hold their ground. Yemeni pro-government forces claimed to have retaken the country’s entire southern province of Shabwa from Houthi rebels. The Giants Brigade, a pro-government militia backed by the United Arab Emirates, claimed to have captured the province …

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) tore into President Biden’s speech advocating a suspension of filibuster rules, in remarks on the Senate floor on Wednesday. “The president’s rant — rant — yesterday was incoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office,” McConnell said. Biden gave a speech at Morehouse College in …

Renowned Russian academic Sergey Karaganov describes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the latest October Valdai Forum[1] as the “first major and strong call for reinventing Russian ideology for Russia and the world.”[2] Indeed, Putin’s speech can be viewed as an ideological manifesto that tries to put Russia back in …

Ελάχιστοι τρέφουν αυταπάτες για το αποτέλεσμα των διαπραγματεύσεων που ξεκίνησαν χθες στη Γενεύη μεταξύ των ΗΠΑ και της Ρωσίας. Οι δύο χώρες πραγματοποιούν συνομιλίες που αφορούν στην αρχιτεκτονική ασφάλειας της ευρωπαϊκής ηπείρου. Η Ουκρανία αποτελεί ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα αγκάθια, όχι ότι δεν υπάρχουν και άλλα σοβαρά θέματα, στα οποία …

Я полностью согласен с Дмитрием Песковым. Посудомойки – это не святое. Имею в виду посудомоечные машины. А вот люди-посудомойки – совсем другое дело. Люди – наш приоритет. Если кухарки могут управлять государством, то и посудомойки справятся не хуже. А посудомоечной машины у меня дома нет. Я по старинке считаю, что …

Russia staged live-fire exercises with troops and tanks near the Ukrainian border on Tuesday while sounding a downbeat note over the prospects for talks with the United States that Washington hopes will remove the possible threat of an invasion of Ukraine. A day after the U.S. side urged Russia at …

Ukraine and the United States remain united in seeking to defuse a standoff with Moscow through diplomacy and are working closely to deter Russian aggression, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said after speaking to his U.S. counterpart. Kuleba spoke to Secretary of State Antony Blinken a day after the United …