Key Takeaways:An RFE/RL-led report notes that the Center of Experimental Physiology on Lisy Island in Tver’s Vyshnevolotskoye Reservoir—closed after a 2023 “natural monument” designation—is led by Vladimir Maksimov, a former official of the Defense Ministry’s 48th Central Research Institute, which the U.S. sanctioned in 2020 over alleged biological and chemical …

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to use contradictory language about the possibility of achieving peace in Ukraine to obscure Moscow’s true objectives. Putin addressed the Eastern Economic Forum on September 3 and stated uncertainly that, in his opinion, there is a chance that Russia and Ukraine can hold constructive peace …

Le rapprochement entre la Turquie, le Qatar et le Pakistan ne constitue pas, contrairement à ce qu’une lecture rapide pourrait laisser croire, un «axe des Frères musulmans». La réalité est plus complexe et, pour cette raison même, beaucoup plus intéressante : derrière trois États aux histoires, aux institutions et aux …