Eurasia Press & News

Russian soldiers pummeling a city in eastern Ukraine with artillery are slowly edging closer in their attempt to seize Bakhmut, which has remained in Ukrainian hands during the eight-month war despite Moscow’s goal of capturing the entire Donbas region bordering Russia.

What do members, future members, dialogue partners and future dialogue partners of this exotic blend of nations [the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, SCO] have in common? With their growing democratic deficits and authoritarian-to-dictatorship regimes, they are at cold war with the world’s democratic bloc of nations. “I told Putin… Let us …

The Logic of Escalation in an Unraveling War In the spring of 2018, four years before his second invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered an unusual speech about the growing strength of the Russian military. “To those who in the past 15 years have tried to accelerate an …

Easy Money, Hard Choices Coming on the heels of the pandemic-induced economic slowdown, the inflation crisis of the past two years seemed to catch much of the world by surprise. After three decades in which prices grew slowly across the world’s advanced economies, suddenly the United Kingdom, the United States, …

What It Would Take to Defeat Both China and Russia When it comes to international relations, 2022 has been an exceptionally dangerous year. During the first two months, Russia massed thousands of troops along Ukraine’s borders. At the end of the second one, Moscow sent them marching into Ukraine. China, …

Instead of assuming its responsibility for halting terrorist attacks from areas under its control, the Palestinians continue to violate the agreements they signed with Israel. In the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority did not take real measures to stop Hamas from building a massive terrorism infrastructure. Hamas later used its …

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally launched his AKP campaign with a big bash in Ankara today. The event was called “Turkey’s Century,” and Erdogan offered a sneak preview on Twitter by sharing a video that will only fuel further speculation that he wants to anoint his younger son-in-law, Selcuk Bayraktar, …

Ustami ministra Szojgu Władimir Putin wysyła sygnał Zachodowi – jeżeli nie zatrzymacie ukraińskiej ofensywy, uderzymy bombą atomową. I zrobi to, jeżeli będzie czuł się bezkarny. – Jestem w pełni przekonany, że z narodem ukraińskim będziemy żyli w pokoju i dobrosąsiedztwie – twierdził rosyjski minister obrony Siergiej Szojgu we wrześniu 2019 …

Giorgia Meloni, che ha mostrato di avere piena coscienza degli enormi problemi da affrontare, ora dovrà dimostrare di saper portare l’Italia fuori dalla «tempesta» Da questo momento Giorgia Meloni sarà attesa alla verifica dei fatti, dovrà dimostrare di saper portare l’Italia fuori dalla «tempesta». Perché è vero che eredita una …

The 20th Party Congress has closed, with Xi Jinping’s grip on power even tighter than expected. After years of speculation, the 20th Party Congress has closed, and the new Central Committee elected the members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the men who will rule China for the next five years. …