Eurasia

A previously touted US-EU dialogue on security and defence is set to be launched in early 2022, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell announced in a statement on Friday (3 December). First announced in their joint EU-US June summit, the first meeting is …

China and Russia have strengthened their political, economic and military relations this year, despite their uneasy history in the past, as both countries say they resent what they call growing pressure from the West. So far this year, the two have held a series of military exercises and issued joint …

South Caucasus’ shifting geography has been the single most important development in the region following the second Nagorno-Karabakh war. One year since the end of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war allows us to wrap up major changes in and around the South Caucasus. Most of the changes discussed in the scholarly …

While the United States is preoccupied with its rivalry with China, Russia has been asserting itself into the conversation about great power competition, reminding Washington that Moscow itself is a force to be reckoned with. A Russian military buildup along Ukraine’s eastern border has worried Kiev and Washington—some reports suggest …

На что сразу обращаешь внимание, когда видишь сообщения о встрече министра Лаврова с госсекретарем Блинкеном? Переговоры длились 40 минут. Меньше, чем школьный урок, меньше, чем многие беседы в эфире у нас тут на радио. Если собеседникам тягостно друг с другом, то и 40 минут много. А если им есть, что …

Russland verlangt eine Pufferzone zwischen sich und den Nato-Ländern. Wohin das führen würde, lehrt die Geschichte. Was sich im Distanz-Schlagabtausch zwischen Ost und West und konkret zwischen dem russischen Außenminister Sergej Lawrow und seinem US-Kollegen Tony Blinken abspielt, gibt Anlass zu höchster Sorge. Russland sucht rhetorisch die Offensive und wirft …

Ten people were killed and one person was injured in an attack on a bus carrying workers in an oil field in Syria’s government-held areas, Syria’s state news agency reported Thursday. No details were offered of the nature of the attack or who was behind it. The news agency SANA …

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration says it wants to be prepared in case Russia invades Ukraine and the onus is on Moscow to change its behavior toward its neighbor, as warnings over a buildup of Russian troops near the border intensified on December 3. The White House rebutted Russian demands …

The European Union and the United States have expressed strong concern over what they see as China’s “problematic and unilateral actions” in the South and East China Seas, as well as the Taiwan Strait. A joint press statement issued Thursday after the first day of the second high-level meeting of …

In the presence of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and Sheikh Mohammed ben Zayed Al Nahyane, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Vice-Commander of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, signed a historical contract with Tareq …