Eurasia Press & News

A multifaceted response from Europe has so far prevented its energy woes from creating widespread social and economic destabilization. But with winter approaching, the crisis is far from over and risks are getting worse. While European energy prices have eased slightly in recent months, stress continues to build across a …

FOREWORD The war in Ukraine continues to move ever closer to a nuclear confrontation between the United States and Russia as loggerhead tensions continue to mount between these two super powers with the U.S. resolutely declaring it will ultimately defeat Russia, while Russia resolutely declares it will not loose the …

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This war has been horrendous, though it does not compare with the terrible destruction wrought by the U.S. bombardment of Iraq (“shock and awe”) in 2003. In the Gomel region of Belarus that borders Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian diplomats met on February 28 …

Despite the heavy presence of Syrian and Russian forces in southern Syria, militants affiliated with the Islamic State group appear to be active in the region. Last week, local fighters, some of whom were affiliated with the Syrian government, carried out an operation targeting several hideouts belonging to IS operatives …

How the Country Can Take Back All Its Territory For too long, the global democratic coalition supporting Kyiv has focused on what it should not do in the invasion of Ukraine. Its main aims include not letting Ukraine lose and not letting Russian President Vladimir Putin win—but also not allowing …

The World Is More Fragmented, but Interdependence Still Rules After two and a half years of a pandemic that has exposed the fragility of global supply chains and eight months of war in Ukraine that has severed economic ties between Russia and the West and disrupted global food and energy …

Introduction The ongoing protests against the Iranian regime can be defined not only as a women-led uprising, but also an ethnic minorities-led one. In fact, for the ethnic minorities that comprise almost half of Iran’s population (e.g., Ahwazi Arabs, Kurds, and Balochis), this is a “revolution” for liberty and basic …

After adopting legislation to address corruption, Hungary received two more months to prove EU funds are safe and there’s no need for financial sanctions. If Hungary succeeds, it will not be because of such cosmetic moves, but because of how EU politics work. Astrange charade is going on in Brussels: …

The prolonged tension between Serbia and Kosovo has enabled the far right in Serbia to flourish – and link up with like-minded foreign counterparts. Some 23 years after Kosovo achieved its autonomy from the rump Yugoslavia of Montenegro and Serbia and 14 years after its unilateral declaration of independence from …

These members of Congress, [Saudi author Mohammed Al-Saed] implied, either do not know or are conveniently “forgetting” that Iran has been at least as brutal to Americans as Saudi Arabia has. While the gruesome murder of Osama bin Laden’s good friend, Jamal Khashoggi — whose dream was to “establish an …