April, 2022

• 13 April

  Russia May Never Recover Its Status as an Energy Giant

  

  In the aftermath of U.S. President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that he was banning Russian oil imports in the U.S., global markets delivered a stark message to Russia’s leading energy giants: No one wants to buy what they’re selling. No one, that is, other than India, which is the …

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• 13 April

  Russia’s New Nuclear Doctrine: Don’t Mess With Us—But Let’s Talk

  

  For the first time ever, the Russian government has publicly released a document laying out the logic and principles underpinning its approach to nuclear deterrence. Formally titled “Fundamentals of Russian State Nuclear Deterrence Policy,” the report was approved by President Vladimir Putin and posted on the government’s official information web …

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• 13 April

  NATO Is Focusing on the Wrong Russian Threat in Eastern Europe

  

  As NATO has focused its attention on Russia’s offensive military capabilities in Eastern Europe, an equally significant and, in practice, more problematic issue has been largely ignored: Russia’s preponderance of “anti-access, area-denial” capabilities in the borderlands between the Baltic and Black Seas. Is NATO focusing on the wrong Russian threat …

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• 13 April

  Putin’s Big Plans for Russia’s Far East Aren’t Panning Out

  

  In early September, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, a port city on the Pacific coast, to issue a call to action. Russia, he said, needed a new generation of pioneers to revive the country’s eastern frontier. “The development of the Far Eastern region …

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• 13 April

  Russian Mercenaries Won’t Make a Bad War Worse

  

  News headlines this week warned that Russia is recruiting mercenaries to scale up its operations in Ukraine. Some 16,000 fighters from Syria and other Arab states have already volunteered, joining the hundreds of Russian mercenaries that were already reportedly operating in Ukraine. The whiff of guns-for-hire was seen as a …

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• 13 April

  Putin’s War on Ukraine Is Spreading Global Shockwaves

  

  Just before midnight on Monday, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo appeared on television to declare an unprecedented state of emergency for Lima, the capital. All the city’s residents, he said, were to stay indoors for 24 hours, beginning just two hours after his announcement. The controversial decision, which would later be …

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• 13 April

  Naiv in Moskau

  Der österreichische Bundeskanzler Karl Nehammer besucht Wladimir Putin – eine Mission ohne Erfolgsaussicht. Die kleine Republik Österreich gefällt sich schon lange in dem vor allem von heimischen Politikern gepflegten Image, eine “Brückenbauerin”, eine diplomatische Größe im Konzert der Großen zu sein. Was immer Bundeskanzler Karl Nehammer beflügelt haben mag, sich …

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• 11 April

  Mekke’de Kral ile Bayram Namazı: Kaşıkçı pazarlığı mı?

  

  Dün akşamüzeri havuz medyasında bir sevinç dalgası yayıldı. Hayır, enflasyon düşmemişti. Türk lirasının değer kazanmaya başlamamış, elektrik ve doğal gaz zamları biraz olsun düşürülmemişti. Bir Lübnan gazetesi, Suudi kaynaklara dayanarak Kral Salman’ın Cumhurbaşkanı Tayyip Erdoğan’ı Bayram Namazını birlikte Mekke’de kılmaya davet ettiği için heyecanlanmışlardı. Ekonomik krizden gayet kötü etkilendiği halde …

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• 11 April

  Viccnek elég durva volna

  

  Öt hosszú év. Ezalatt Macron neokonzervatív politikája valódi strukturális áttörést hozott a francia „reformokban”, közben leverték az utóbbi évtizedek legjelentősebb társadalmi mozgalmát (a „sárga mellényeseket”), hatalmas sztrájkmozgalmak szenvedtek vereséget, de Franciaország kivette a részét a metoo-ból és a Black Lives Matter mozgalomból is, miközben az elnök autoritárius (szélsőjobboldali elmekkel dúsított) …

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• 11 April

  The Complexity Of China’s Economy Along With Rising Prices – Analysis

  

  So far this year, the world has experienced a surge in inflation driven by rising energy and commodity prices in the post-pandemic environment, aggravated by global monetary easing and supply chain distortions. Inflation in the United States hit a record high of 7.5% in January. In major economies such as …

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