Eurasia Press & News

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is making his first visit to a region that is roiled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but still loyal to Moscow, while bloody crackdowns have overshadowed reform drives initiated in Central Asia’s two largest countries — Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In another sense, the environment …

It has been a year since the war erupted in Ukraine, with hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides, yet there seems to be no end in sight. This conflict, as things stand, is a microcosm of global instability, as the world faces its darkest period and the largest-scale …

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. The story was wrong, and Indeksonline later retracted it and issued an apology. But the claim is still doing …

Oil from Azerbaijan’s giant ACG oil field in the Caspian Sea briefly resumed flowing through the Baku-Supsa pipeline to the Georgian Black Sea coast for the first time in 10 months after a halt due to the Russia-Ukraine war. BP, which operates both the ACG field and the Baku-Supsa pipeline, …

The global pandemic was not completely catastrophic in its effects. It led to the cancellation, and postponement, of wasteful projects and events. It spared public money. But as the pandemic slides into the shadow of policymaking, bad habits have returned. The profligates are here to stay. One such habit is …

In moves that may prove more consequential than Tehran’s ongoing supply of drones to the Russian army, the Iran Marine Industrial Company is currently repairing a Russian ship that crashed into ice on the Volga River and is joining China in helping Russia to dredge the Volga-Caspian Seaway Canal (see …

The German-language press mostly sees the agreement in principle between Belgrade and Pristina as a de facto recognition of Kosovo’s independence, but also states that it is not yet certain that Vučić will see the matter through to the end. “Serbia and Kosovo have reached an important milestone on the …

Geopolitics further tightened expectations from Serbia. If the process is sincerely approached again and Serbia’s European dimension is politically established, I believe in Serbia’s membership, even though there are great challenges in overcoming the misunderstanding between the EU and Serbia, which both arose objectively, but which has been built for …

If the Biden Administration were serious about de-escalating tensions and preventing further violence between Israelis and Palestinians, it could have achieved this goal by demanding that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas take action against the numerous armed gangs roaming Palestinian streets. Instead of holding a summit in Jordan or any …

A Turkish drone attack Monday in northern Iraq killed at least three fighters from the minority Yazidi community affiliated with the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdish officials said. “A drone from the Turkish army targeted a vehicle” in the region, killing an officer and two combattants from the …