Eurasia Press & News

Intensifying Russian and Chinese joint military activities around Japan are intended to cow Tokyo into timidity. They are likely to have the opposite effect. The Russian heavy bomber’s propellers whipped up snow from the runway at the Ukrainka base in Russia’s Far East as it took off to join its …

Published jointly with the International Rescue Committee, this essay collection focuses on how the Global Britain vision can be made a reality Given a challenging geopolitical environment, the recently published Integrated Review of the UK’s security, defence, development and foreign policies, and the appointment of a new foreign secretary, RUSI …

A previously touted US-EU dialogue on security and defence is set to be launched in early 2022, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell announced in a statement on Friday (3 December). First announced in their joint EU-US June summit, the first meeting is …

China and Russia have strengthened their political, economic and military relations this year, despite their uneasy history in the past, as both countries say they resent what they call growing pressure from the West. So far this year, the two have held a series of military exercises and issued joint …

In the first week of September, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram in an interview given to Associated Press unfolded Islamabad’s plan to expeditiously resolve the crisis in Afghanistan created by Taliban’s forcible takeover of Kabul. He urged the international community to adopt this ‘three-pronged approach’ – one, …

South Caucasus’ shifting geography has been the single most important development in the region following the second Nagorno-Karabakh war. One year since the end of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war allows us to wrap up major changes in and around the South Caucasus. Most of the changes discussed in the scholarly …

The parties to the world’s nuclear deal with Iran, including Iran itself, have started a new round of discussions – the seventh since April 2021, when newly elected US president Joe Biden initiated meetings aimed at America re-entering an updated agreement. The talks – if you can call a meeting …

Islamic State in Central Africa Province (ISCAP)’s Congo branch has become increasingly active in 2021, while its branch in Mozambique has been forced to retreat from territories captured last year. Like the branch in Mozambique, ISCAP in Congo has adopted the aesthetic and vernacular styles of Islamic State in Syria …

While the United States is preoccupied with its rivalry with China, Russia has been asserting itself into the conversation about great power competition, reminding Washington that Moscow itself is a force to be reckoned with. A Russian military buildup along Ukraine’s eastern border has worried Kiev and Washington—some reports suggest …

На что сразу обращаешь внимание, когда видишь сообщения о встрече министра Лаврова с госсекретарем Блинкеном? Переговоры длились 40 минут. Меньше, чем школьный урок, меньше, чем многие беседы в эфире у нас тут на радио. Если собеседникам тягостно друг с другом, то и 40 минут много. А если им есть, что …