Eurasia

The Kremlin continues to pursue its longstanding hybrid warfare efforts to regain effective control of the territories of the former Soviet Union even as it seeks to gain control of Ukraine through military force. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is, in fact, supporting Russian hybrid warfare efforts in former …

Russia’s economy and war effort is coming under increasing strain, which will pose increasingly acute challenges to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ability to sustain the war over the long term. The Washington Post reported on October 27 that the Russian economy is “in danger of overheating,” noting that Russia’s excessively …

Faced with an apparent lack of successes in his own department, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), has come up with an alternative way of going down in history. His most recent craze is the initiative to rename multiple streets in Moscow after Russian and Soviet …

This Saturday, October 26, citizens of the Republic of Georgia in the South Caucasus began voting in parliamentary elections that will determine the future of their country. Georgia’s political arena is divided between a pro-European opposition and a ruling party accused of pro-Russian authoritarianism. Polling stations opened at around 8 …

The ongoing crises in Ukraine and the Middle East are reshaping global energy and trade landscapes. Russia and Ukraine occupy strategic positions in global energy exports and agricultural production, while the Middle East serves as a focal point for oil flows and geopolitical stability. October 2024 marked heightened military engagements, …

The recent expansion of BRICS presents considerable geopolitical ramifications, particularly for Russia, which has leveraged its membership to mitigate the economic and political isolation enforced by the United States and NATO since the commencement of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The strategy employed by Russia to utilize BRICS as a countervailing bloc …

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted three waves of strikes into Iran on October 25. The strikes were in response to the large-scale ballistic missile attack that Iran launched against Israel on October 1. The IDF targeted around 20 locations around Tehran and western Iran, including vital air defense assets …

Bloomberg reported on October 25, citing South Korean intelligence documents, that a second group of North Korean soldiers will soon deploy to Russia. Bloomberg reported that it viewed South Korean intelligence documents from an unspecified date that assessed that the first group of 1,500 North Korean “elite special forces” had …

Certains commentateurs ont écrit que ce blog, et d’autres, avait négligé le sommet actuel des BRICS. Ils ont raison, jusqu’à un certain point. Les BRICS sont un projet à long terme. C’est le développement d’un conglomérat économique et politique d’organisations supranationales conçues pour être une alternative à celles créées par …

NYT: Israel hit secretive Parchin base, S-300 air defenses near Tehran airport; reports say Israel aimed to minimize casualties; Iran says 4 soldiers killed Iran said Saturday it was obliged to “defend itself” after Israel conducted strikes on military targets throughout the Islamic Republic — an assault that came in …