Brussels is spending billions to route Asian trade around Russia and a war-torn Iran. Much of the cargo still takes the Russian road anyway. Kazakh President Kassym...
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Some ‘sovereigntists’ in the EU dream of an alternative to Brussels, but even Russia admits that BRICS cannot yet provide what they want. Aleksandar Vulin...
The Iran war has left Central Europe’s growth largely intact, but inflation is sticking, Ukraine is battered and Russia is in crisis. The energy price shock from...
Russians have created a new market, from intermediaries promising to locate missing soldiers to scammers hunting for compensation payments. Within minutes of posting...
Central and Eastern Europe is becoming Europe’s engine, not its edge. That transition needs a coherent agenda, not sentimentality. For the better part of two...
Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection. Gul Hassan, the...
The Kremlin reviles her, Fico wants her sacked, Paris wants her clipped. Just so. The EU needs a foreign policy chief who is hard on Russia. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy...
Central Asia’s pivot to Israel signals a broader realignment in Eurasia. Kazakhstan’s recent decision to join the Abraham Accords may represent the start...
In Belarus, hackers operate with surgical precision and intense secrecy. In Ukraine, they unleash digital ‘guns blazing’ attacks. Yet both cyber resistance...
Despite Russia’s brutal invasion, Ukraine’s economy forges ahead. There may be stalemate on the battlefield, but on the economic front, Ukraine is advancing...
The double myth that the current Ukrainian government is illegitimate and that fast elections are necessary to end the fighting was created in Moscow. Among the many...
Abandoning the principle of a unified Ukraine would embolden aggressors by signalling that military might can reshape international borders with impunity. Ukraine’s...
Russia illustrates how legal systems, when deprived of independence and accountability, can become potent instruments of authoritarian resilience. Since the early 2000s...