Eurasia

Speaking at a press conference with Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the written response by the US to Russia’s key demands from December indicated that “the fundamental concerns of Russia have been ignored.” The main demands from the December 17 document, which …

The Promise and Peril of Public Threats With Russia massing troops on its border with Ukraine and apparently readying for an invasion, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has faced persistent questions about its redlines in that conflict. Senior U.S. officials have avoided spelling out exactly how much Russian aggression is …

Vladimir Putin is a bully and a despot: Appeasing him overtly is certainly wrong. But Russia must be handled with cleverness and care and NATO, with its unnecessary overreach on Ukraine, failed to do so Vladimir Putin is a bully and a menace. Standing up for his victims will always …

Some 2,000 American troops will be deployed to Poland and Germany, while around 1,000 troops now based in Germany will head to Romania U.S. President Joe Biden has approved sending additional forces to Eastern Europe, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, as Washington reinforces its allies against what it …

Turkish-Ukrainian trade is on the rise and Ukraine recently used Turkish combat drones against Russia-backed forces. Turkey and Ukraine will sign a free trade agreement in Kyiv tomorrow, the Turkish trade minister said today. “We will sign a New Generation Free Trade Agreement with Ukraine as the fruit of more …

With its president set to visit Ukraine, Turkey has reassured Russia by reiterating its commitment for a key maritime treaty safeguarding Russia’s rights in the Black Sea. Just days before Turkey’s president is set to visit Ukraine, Ankara has reassured Moscow with a rare public display of support to a …

On Wednesday, Tunisia announced that it had restored its pandemic-era restrictions, imposing a 10 p.m. curfew and banning all gatherings for two weeks. According to President Kais Saied’s government, the decision was made in order to combat the recent, rapid spread of the coronavirus’s omicron variant. Yet the timing was …

In September 2021, the Polish government declared a state of emergency along its border with Belarus, which is also the European Union’s eastern frontier, in response to a large influx of migrants from countries including Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. The route and timing of the migrants’ journey into Europe was …

Активизация диалога России и Запада по проблемам безопасности запустила процесс радикальной перенастройки отношений Украины со всем евроатлантическим сообществом. Главный тектонический сдвиг состоит в том, что ставка как на американский, так и на общеевропейский внешнеполитический проекты теряет для Киева прежний смысл. Вашингтон все более активно подталкивает Киев к выполнению Минских соглашений, …

Beginning with Magna Carta, constitutions were created to limit the ability of the powers to act without the approval of the people, Lev Shlosberg says. But Vladimir Putin has not merely gutted the provisions of the Russian Constitution but reversed its meaning. For him, Russia’s basic law has become a …