Eurasia

La réunion de Valdai : L’Asie occidentale à la rencontre de la multipolarité

Lors de la réunion du Club Valdaï en Russie – la réponse de l’Est à Davos – des intellectuels et des personnalités influentes se sont réunis pour définir les développements actuels et futurs de l’Asie occidentale. La 12ème « Conférence sur le Moyen-Orient », qui s’est tenue au Club Valdaï …

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Vučić authorized himself: Why do the president and the prime minister negotiate on behalf of Belgrade and Pristina, and not the prime minister and the prime minister?

Negotiations on the Kosovo issue have been going on for years, and since he came to power, they have been led by President Aleksandar Vučić. On the other hand, Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti is negotiating on behalf of Kosovo. This raises the question of why the dialogue between Belgrade and …

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In Serbia, the image of the President of Russia is being demystified: are the days of Putin’s halo in the Balkans numbered?

For more than a year, Serbia has been calculating the (non)introduction of sanctions against Russia, which has recently been shown to be a maneuver that the current government is seriously reconsidering, writes Oslobođenje . It also seems that public opinion is slowly giving way to the “Russophile euphoria”, and that …

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US, SDF capture, kill ISIS leaders in Syria helicopter raids

An ISIS leader was killed and another captured during joint helicopter raids in Syria, following deadly attacks on truffle hunters in the desert. Helicopter-borne US troops working with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday (February 18) captured an “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) provincial official in Syria, …

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To counter the Wagner Group’s presence in Africa, the US will need to prioritize stabilizing Libya

The war in Ukraine has brought Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group to the forefront, with the United States now focusing on countering their presence beyond Ukraine, particularly in Africa. One theatre Washington is now prioritizing as part of this burgeoning effort is Libya, where Russia’s influence is mainly projected …

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Implications Of The New START Suspension – Analysis

On 21 February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the end of his Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, announced Russia’s suspension of its participation in the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).1 He immediately clarified that the break did not mean withdrawal from the Treaty. The announcement provoked a …

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The Great US-China Tech Decoupling: Perils Of Techno-Nationalism – Analysis

The United States and China have entered a phase of competition for technological advantage, intensified by pandemic-induced supply chain vulnerabilities as well as a fundamental reorientation of global power dynamics where technology has come to play an unprecedented role. According to Eric Schmidt, the former Google leader, “Many Americans still …

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Moldova’s New Government Expects Fresh Pressure From Moscow – OpEd

Moldova’s new government faces renewed hybrid threats from Russia, with experts fearing a sophisticated disinformation campaign will be enacted to force another change of power. The previous administration, headed by Natalia Gavrilița and inaugurated in August 2021, resigned on February 10. It had faced multiple crises including the war in …

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Kosovo Media, and Regulators, Failing on Privacy Protection

Media in Kosovo often publish the personal data of individuals in a race for clicks that ignores standards on ethics.When Indeksonline, an online media outlet in Kosovo, reported in January that a participant in a local reality TV show was HIV positive, dozens of other media ran with the story. …

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DEMOCRACY DIGEST: POLAND’S MOMENT; SLOVAKIA’S SHAME

Poland cements its status as key NATO state with Biden visit; as Slovakia commemorates the anniversary of the contract killing of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, a new trial date for the alleged masterminds is set. All eyes on Poland this week as US President Joe Biden visited first …

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