Despite the internal economic difficulties caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns and sanctions pressure, Russia has continued to expand its influence in Central Asia using instruments such as the Eurasian Economic Union. But Russia was also successful in its soft-power approaches, namely migration. Allowing more Central Asian migrants into Russia indirectly enhances Moscow’s reach and importance […]
Standoff. Poland’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday that around 250 migrants were spotted across the border in Belarus guarded by Belarusian soldiers who threatened...
Nuclear buildup. China is planning to quadruple its stockpile of deliverable nuclear weapons by 2030, according to the latest version of the Pentagon’s annual...
Since gaining independence from the British in 1956, Sudan has experienced only intermittent periods of democratic rule. Although the British encouraged the rise of...
China and Taiwan. China has reportedly been cracking down on a surge of online speculation about a possible cross-strait conflict with Taiwan. Like many...
Cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey is intensifying. Just a few days ago, the Ukrainian military used Turkish-made drones to strike fighters in Donbass, a...
Syrian maneuvers. Russia and Syria conducted several simultaneous joint flight exercises from Syrian airfields. The main maneuvers took place around the Tiyas air base,...
Rumblings in Syria. Turkish forces fired heavy artillery over the weekend at a Syrian village called al-Dibs, located on the Aleppo-Hasaka M4 highway north...
Europe's economic performance. Economic growth in the eurozone continued in the third quarter, reaching 2.2 percent – up slightly from 2.1 percent in the...
European replenishment. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Gazprom to refill European natural gas storage facilities beginning next month to help ease the Continent’s energy...
The uprisings in 2010-11 against autocratic Arab regimes stunned the world. The region’s ruling oligarchs were known for systematically suppressing even the slightest manifestations...
