September 30, 2024 Balkans, Eurasia, Serbia
Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced that Russia supports Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s initiative to reintroduce Serbian forces into Kosovo, in accordance with UN Resolution 1244. This statement from Moscow represents a continued commitment to Serbia’s strategic interests, not merely for the implementation of Vucic’s …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The involvement of the Houthis in the Israel–Hamas war has affected the progress of the negotiations between the internationally recognised government of Yemen and the Houthis. The intra-Yemeni dialogue which was advancing since the agreement between the government of Yemen and the Houthis in April 2022 and the rapprochement between …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, August 30, Russia launched five glide bombs toward Kharkiv. One bomb obliterated the entrance of a twelve-story residential building, where a seventy-one-year-old burned alive. Another killed a fourteen-year-old girl sitting on a bench in a park, leaving six people dead in total. In September, Russia …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia
The immigrants were arriving on children’s bicycles and sometimes even in wheelchairs. According to Norwegian law, immigrants couldn’t cross the border by foot. So, in 2015, they were traveling from Russia to the far north of Norway on any conveyance they could find. It was an odd choice of a …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: The Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving the region in dangerous disarray. Its primary foreign policy goal has been to rally its regional partners to cooperate with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist government. Simultaneously, …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
2 days agoIran Update, September 28, 2024Johanna Moore, Siddhant Kishore, Alexandra Braverman, Katherine Wells, Annika Ganzeveld and Nicholas CarlTIPxMake a text selection to add commentsInformation Cutoff: 2:00pm ET The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. It …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia
In 1904, Sir Halford J. Mackinder, one of the founders of classical geopolitics, conceptually divided the world into three parts: the pivot area of northeastern and central Eurasia, the surrounding area of an inner crescent of remaining Eurasian and North African territories, and an outer crescent of all the remaining …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia, Kavkaz
Since 1991, most of the Islamist violence in the North Caucasus has occurred in the three republics in the eastern part of that region, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya, while the surviving bi-national republics in the middle and the national republics in the west have remained relatively quiet. But since last …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks a role for Turkey in Gaza’s post-war reconstruction if not governance, and the Biden administration appears ready to accede to this request. Others also see Turkish involvement after the conflict as a fait accompli. “It’s tough to imagine any long-term solution to the Gaza …
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September 30, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Ruling mullahs duly rolled into New York City to attend the U.N. General Assembly, led by Iran’s new “moderate” president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Two years have passed since the murder of Jina (“Mahsa”) Amini, a young Kurdish-Iranian woman, at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police. Amini was …
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