Onur Sinan Güzaltan, United World International columnist, asked retired Russian diplomat and Middle East expert Vyacheslav Matuzov about the normalization steps between Türkiye and Syria. Matuzov, who has worked in Arab countries for many years, talked about Russia’s view on Türkiye and its Middle East strategy. Why is Russia mediating the negotiations between Türkiye and Syria? What is Moscow’s political ...
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters…” These words written by Antoino Gramsci almost a century ago, are still valid. The signs of the death of the old world have never been so strong and the birth labor of the new world is putting humanity into a controversial ...
Russia entered the New Year with rain, not snow. Unlike previous years, the Kremlin and its surroundings were calm. The lights of the houses were on. At five minutes to 12, President Putin appeared on Russian television. Lined up behind him were men and women in uniform. Putin addressed his citizens from the Southern Military District Command, located near the ...
Winter has come early to Moscow. The dawn is breaking with a cold nimbus over the city. A very spicy marketplace in Moscow While the lamps in the houses are coming on, those on the streets are slowly going off. People are getting ready. Soon there will begin a great struggle between the city and nature. Curly smokes rise from ...
The first snow of the year fell in Moscow. A delicate white blanket has spread over the city that won’t be gone until spring. Pigeons abandoned the rooftops to the snow and began to roost in the parks. As the rooftops, the streets also became deserted. City dwellers retreated to their homes and high-ceilinged cafes. Those still outside quickened their ...
By Erkin Feyyaz Eşli Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an agreement on the accession of a number of former Ukrainian regions to Russia: the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. The signatures came as a result of referendums in these regions, in which the overwhelming majority of residents said “Yes” ...
Thank you very much for your invitation to participate in this very important debate, an invitation both honorable and very interesting for me. (*) There is a tendency nowadays to examine the cultural questions and among them the question of values independently of the socio-economic, material processes and also from geopolitics. I believe it is a huge mistake, and this ...
For Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, the mission is clear: “Ukraine must win this war. And Putin’s aggression must be a strategic failure”, she said in her speech on the World Economic Forum on May 27. Von der Leyen declares to “stand with” Ukraine – and announces a whole package of aggressive imperialist measures against Russia ...
The effects of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine are being felt in the Eastern Mediterranean just as they are throughout the rest of the world. The equation, formed by the complete rupture of Russian-European relations, leads the countries of the region to new options. The new situation in the Eastern Mediterranean Although the relations between Russia and Israel started ...
In the last decade, the Mediterranean has become a global epicenter of geopolitical and geo-economic interests. It has taken an increased importance because of the profound transformations that have taken place and that continue to manifest themselves in ever fluid and changing forms. The regional conflicts in Libya and Syria, the never-ending tensions between Turkey, Greece and Cyprus (Greek Administration ...