Eurasia

Details are still emerging about the June 23 violence in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Daghestan. At least 20 people were killed, including 15 police officers, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, when gunmen attacked a synagogue, two Russian Orthodox churches, and police targets in the regional capital, Makhachkala, and the …

In 2001, after the horrific 9/11 attacks, an apoplectic George W. Bush administration ignored Congress’s narrow authorization to use military force against the perpetrators of the attacks and those who harbored them. Instead, it launched a grandiose global war on terror much broader than those wisely limited legislative instructions. Congress’s …

The whole point of rebranding what was first conceptualized as the “Baltic Defense Line” is to market this project as an inclusive pan-European one that’s supposedly being built for the “greater good” of the bloc’s citizens. Poland and the Baltic States just requested EU funding to finance what they now …

Lavrov was directly asked to share his opinion about the observation that “India is now leaning more towards the US”, which his interlocutor provocatively added is now even an opinion among some in Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shared some detailed insight into Indian geopolitics during Wednesday’s Primakov Readings, …

How the Fight Against Climate Change Can Overcome Geopolitical Discord The clean energy transition has reached adolescence. Its future direction is not yet set, and in the meantime, its internal paradoxes make for a volatile mix. Political leaders fret that ambitious steps to address climate change will aggravate geopolitical problems …

Israel has no military options that could achieve a better result than a negotiated solution or a return to the status quo. As tensions have risen in the border area between Lebanon and Israel, many observers are predicting that Hezbollah and the Israeli military will soon be at war. On …

The Turkish president’s comments have reignited the war of words between Turkey and Israel. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said Israel has set its eyes on Lebanon as he accused some Western powers of supporting the Israeli government’s plans to expand the war in Gaza. “Israel, which devastated …

Two ultraconservative candidates have pulled out of Iran’s Friday presidential vote, leaving four contenders including one reformist still in the race. Tehran’s ultraconservative mayor, Alireza Zakani, announced his withdrawal in a post on social media platform X on Thursday, after earlier denying he was ending his campaign. Zakani’s withdrawal came …

Polish filmmaker Konrad Szolajski’s new documentary looks at nearly a decade of Russian sabotage, espionage and disinformation across Central and Eastern Europe, with an eery actuality.“Putting the whole project together took a lot of time – it was very difficult,” Konrad Szolajski explains as we meet a few hours before …

Marine Le Pen est enfin assimilée à l’arc républicain en obéissant aux injonctions du Likoud de Netanyahou et Mélenchon est adoubé par la population musulmane française tout en valorisant le transhumanisme et le lgbtisme de Soros. Face à cette opposition, le lobby bancaire souhaite que Macron mette sous tutelle la …