Geopolitics of energy and transport corridors Big Turkish project, Russian zugzwang In Russian: Гела Васадзе: Слабое звено? Место Грузии в геополитике Кавказа После второй карабахской войны, именно так принято называть...
May 2021
Indigenous Peoples: Rights in Armed Conflicts
Even in peaceful societies, indigenous peoples are often caught in situations that escalate into conflict, mainly in relation to their lands, territories and resources or their civil, political, cultural, social and...
No offence meant
Germany doesn’t want to offend Russia, the US doesn’t want to offend Germany or Russia. But Vladimir Putin doesn’t seem to mind who he offends. And he’s sitting pretty. It’s all depressingly quiet on the Northern Front...
Yurii Poita on the results of the EAEU summit
Recently, a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council was held, which demonstrated the use by Russia of the Eurasian Economic Union as an instrument of geopolitical influence in the post-Soviet space and the...
Garagol incident and domestic dynamics in Armenia
On May 12, press and social media controlled by former President Serzh Sargsyan’s son-in-law Mikayel Minasyan and former President Robert Kocharian started to spread the rumors, that Azerbaijani forces had entered...
EAEU as a mini-Commonwealth of Independent States
The results of the EAEU summit: anti-Western attitude of some EAEU members and the dominance of Russia in it. All the rhetoric about the EAEU reveals one indisputable fact: that membership in this organization is a...
Joint Training Centers With Russia, but no military base in Belarus yet
The air forces of Russia and Belarus will begin joint air-defense missions out of one of the Belarusian airfields this summer. In reaching this agreement, Minsk and Moscow are resuming the practice of joint fighter jet...
Armenia – Iran relations and their perspectives after the 2020 Karabakh war
Background of relations Since gaining its independence in September 1991, Armenia has always viewed Iran as a friendly state and close partner. Armenia valued the balanced approach of Iran during the first Karabakh war...
Moderation of Karabakh, the Kremlin’s behavior …
– Border aggravation around the “Black Lake” – The Kremlin’s strange alliance – Death of the CSTO as a military-political bloc – The logic of the presence of Russian...
The Need of More NATO
Velizar Shalamanov on the prospects of deeper integration of Bulgaria into NATO and its intensification of regional cooperation after the early parliamentary elections in the country By Igor Fedyk The recent...