Following Syrian Foreign Minister Esad Shaybani’s visit to Moscow on July 31–August 1, speculation has grown that Russian military patrols may soon return to Syria’s southern regions. Russia’s influential daily Kommersant ran the headline “Syria Misses Russian Soldiers,” reporting that Damascus has asked Moscow to redeploy troops to help guard its borders. According to the paper, the Syrian government requested ...
The Center for National Strategy (USMER) has organized an international conference on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea on July 18 and 19 in Istanbul, Türkiye. Today, we present the speech of the Russian Federation’s General Consul in Istanbul, Türkiye, Andrey Buravov. The speech was held in Turkish, unofficial translation by UWI. Dear Conference Organizers and Participants, On behalf ...
By Gökalp Erbaş Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service recently announced that it had received intelligence about NATO’s intention to make Moldova a center of war against Russia. Transnistrian officials also believe that NATO plans for a direct attack on the Transnistrian Republic are being developed. Anyone who has been following developments in the region over the past year, and who has ...
The Serbian Center for Geostrategic Studies has held an international conference on Church and schisms, the abuse of religion for geopolitical purposes. One of the main topics of the conference was the role that the Patriarch Bartholomew I, whose seat is in Istanbul, Türkiye, plays. Below we document the speech of Dragana Trficovic, the center’s director, as published here. By ...
We are continuing our interviews with European voices. This time, we asked Danilo Della Valle about the attack on Iran, the NATO summit, the global transition to multipolarity and European perspective on global peace. Della Valle is a Member of the European Parliament and also member of the Italian Five Star Movement. How do you evaluate the recent attack on ...
The world keeps revolving, Swiftly, relentlessly. And it changes… A brief glance at the past month’s headlines reveals the weight of change and uncertainty. 1. Trump’s new tariffs President Trump declared a new wave of tariffs only on China, the European Union and the southern neighbors tightening his policy of “turning inward”. We are now entering a chapter where Europe ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein Last week we made a descriptive observation of international events, but making an analysis of them is a bit more complex. It seems to me that the difficulties come from the idea that it is possible to understand the current situation from a dichotomous vision of unipolarity vs. bipolarity and that the categories of analysis used ...
By Dr. Shoaib Khan, Visiting Faculty, Centre for Central Eurasian Studies, University of Mumbai, It all began with my tour to the Donetsk region, thanks to the invitation by Vashi Novosti Project Director and Chief Editor Ivan Andreev. The tour was mainly organized besides Vashi Novosti a Federal News Agency with the support of the Department of information and Press ...
On December 8, the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria was overthrown by groups backed by Türkiye’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), the US and Israel. Although a government-like structure led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has been established, chaos prevails in Syria. After Assad’s fall, in the north US-backed PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organization is taking steps to solidify their control over ...
By Özgür Altınbaş, Donetsk / Russia Vittorio Nicola Rangeloni, a Russian/Italian journalist living in Donetsk, described the latest situation on the Ukrainian front. “Having lost control of Ugledar, Selidovo and Gornyak, the Ukrainian army is about to lose control of Kurakhovo,” Rangeloni said, noting that Russian armed forces are constantly advancing on the Donbass front. Emphasizing that all these places ...
By Yiğit Saner, Donbass / Russia As invited guests of the Moscow-based “Culture Volunteers” we visited Donbass. Here is a war zone since 2014. The press tour was between 1-4 October. The aim of the tour has been organized for five years to let journalist witness realities of Donbass with their own eyes, that the reality is quite different than ...
West Asia is going through historic days. The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh by Israel in Tehran is on the world agenda. Iran’s response is being discussed. Meanwhile Türkiye and Syria are likely to take steps towards normalisation after 11 years. How does Russia view the developments in West Asia? I asked Viacheslav Matuzov, one of Russia’s experienced diplomats ...