On September 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered comments on the state of Russian defense production at a meeting of Russia’s Military-Industrial Commission in Izhevsk. Putin declared that the production of battle tanks and armored vehicles had doubled from January to August 2023, as compared to the same period in …

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and many Armenians blame Russia for failing to use its peacekeeping force to protect ethnic Armenians in Azerbaijan’s mostly Armenian-populated breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia’s Foreign Ministry on September 25 slammed remarks by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian that were critical of Moscow, saying they …

In the first reactions to the armed conflicts since Sunday morning in Banjska , Kosovo, the pro-European opposition expressed condolences for the dead, sharply criticized the policy of the President of Serbia as unsuccessful because it turned the Serbs into hostages, and demanded a new approach to the region. Due …

Summary:The prospect of further enlargement presents the EU with multiple institutional, policy, and financial dilemmas. The successful integration of Ukraine and other candidate countries will require pragmatism, reforms, and transitional arrangements. The EU’s 2022 decision to grant candidate country status to Moldova and Ukraine suddenly revived the debate on the …

La semaine dernière, le secrétaire d’État Blinken, dans un discours prononcé à l’université Johns Hopkins, a déclaré sans ambages : «Ce à quoi nous sommes confrontés n’est pas un test de l’ordre de l’après-guerre froide. Les pays et les citoyens perdent confiance dans l’ordre économique international – leur confiance est …

Xi has been eyeing the South and East China Seas, coopting the Solomon Islands, building and militarizing his own artificial islands, and threatening not only Taiwan, but neighbours such as Australia, India and Japan. Putin seized and occupied territory in Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014 (Crimea) and 2023, …

Professor of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad and former president of the provincial government of Vojvodina, Bojan Pajtić, said in Iza vesti that the first thing that must be sought is “the return of Serbian policemen to the north of Kosovo.” According to him, “we are certainly not …

A number of flashpoints around the globe could spiral from minor border skirmishes into full-blown conflagrations that could drag their broader regions into conflict. Given the tectonic shifts in the international system and renewed focus on great power competition, the prospects of inter-state warfare are now receiving more scrutiny. Several …

Iraq continues to face varied challenges, including domestic divisions within and between its major communities, as well as pressure from its powerful neighbor, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Tehran’s Shia allies in Iraq, who dominate the Baghdad government, are attempting to limit Iraqi Kurdish self-rule in northern Iraq. Divisions within …

While Türkiye has announced the project cannot happen without its cooperation, experts also warn the new Western-led project could entail a number of logistical issues and comes amid escalating tensions between the US and China.. On September 9, amid the G20 leaders’ summit hosted in India, the US, Saudi Arabia, …