Eurasia

Andrey Melnichenko’s essay offers no answer to the fundamental question of how, under any kind of negotiated settlement, Europe can protect itself from the Russian ressentiment that is inevitable in all scenarios except for an outright victory for Putin. In line with a horoscope that had predicted that May 10, …

L’esprit d’Anchorage est mort, et Moscou ne parle plus «d’opération militaire spéciale» mais de guerre. Une requalification lourde de conséquences, qui ouvre la voie à un élargissement du conflit bien au-delà du Donbass.Introduction Récemment, un esprit a trouvé le repos : l’esprit d’Anchorage. Personne ne le connaissait personnellement ; il …

As opaque negotiations on SDF integration grind on, the city of Qamishli lives with parallel authorities, shrinking subsidies and growing uncertainty over who will govern nextHow is the SDF integration process going? On the streets of Qamishli many people say they just don’t know. Government forces, at least, are nowhere …

The EU reconfigures its relationship to Syrian civil society The European Union’s new Roadmap for Civil Society Engagement marks a break in how Brussels approaches Syrian civil society: away from viewing it as a social movement and political force shaping state formation; and towards framing it as a local stabilisation …

Lorsque la marine américaine, en coordination avec le Qatar et Oman, a tenté de faire passer un convoi de quatre navires dans le détroit d’Ormuz, via les eaux omanaises, mardi soir — plutôt que de passer par la route officiellement approuvée par l’Iran — Trump a peut-être imaginé (ou on …

As opaque negotiations on SDF integration grind on, the city of Qamishli lives with parallel authorities, shrinking subsidies and growing uncertainty over who will govern nextHow is the SDF integration process going? On the streets of Qamishli many people say they just don’t know. Government forces, at least, are nowhere …

Sub-sanctions Russian dry cargo ship MIKHAIL BRITNEV (Mikhail Britnev, IMO: 9081370) arrived at Lomé in Togo after leaving Arkhangelsk with a call to Kaliningrad on the way. The ship during the flight was accompanied by a large landing ship of the Navy and arrived at the port, which could be …

The price of Urals, which jumped after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz above $100, is again fluctuating around $ 50, which threatens to reduce revenues by hundreds of billions of rubles, and Ukrainian strikes on the refinery add problems: the cost of processing will reduce production. The Russian …

It has been around a year since Syrian government forces and allied tribal militiamen entered the primarily Druze province of al-Suwayda’ in southern Syria, ostensibly serving as a ‘mediation’ force but in fact seeking to impose government security control and dismantle the Druze armed groups in the province that were …

How the U.S.-Iran showdown has shattered the myth of an “unsinkable” defense umbrella—and why the Gulf monarchies are quietly shopping for a new guarantor. The “Oil-for-Protection” Deal That BackfiredFor generations, the strategic bargain between Washington and the Persian Gulf monarchies was strikingly straightforward: The United States guarantees the territorial integrity …