Russia

The New Special Envoy Must Not Allow Russia to Protect Assad Earlier this month, Geir Pedersen, Norway’s ambassador to China and a former permanent representative to the United Nations, was appointed special envoy on the Syria conflict. He replaces the ...

In the late 1980s and early 90s  big shifts took place in the sphere of international relations. The Soviet authorities showed the willingness to reduce the military potential on the basis of the “reasonable sufficiency”  and refused “the Brezhnev doctrine” ...

The tensions between Russia and Ukraine are far from dulling. After Crimea’s annexation by hRussia in 2014 the situation is not improving as a recent event illustrates it. On October 11 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Orthodoxy’s spiritual ...

On 17th of October, an eighteen years old student perpetrated a mass shooting in Kerch, in the Russia annexed peninsula of Crimea. The student of the Kerch Polytechnic College carried out the attack starting in the canteen, where he allegedly ...

A few weeks ago, the Hebrew State wanted to force the leaders of the Gaza Strip to sign a peace agreement. Israel wanted to avoid a two front war (with Gaza as well as with its enemies in the North). ...

On the fourth of October, four Russian agents have been arrested while trying to install spying technologies in the Hague. The agents were found near the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). What were they doing ...

The relations between Russia and the West have become strained since Russia made military incursions into Eastern Ukraine and annexed Crimea with its territory in 2014. As a result, it was expelled from the G8 and was renamed G7. The ...

According to the Time magazine, Vladimir Putin was, in 2007, the person of the year. Ten years later, he still can be described with those words. He is the president of the third global power and every single of his ...

Russia is one more time targeted by some new economic sanctions from the United States. This decision has been made because of the Case Skripal where Russia has been  accused of having used some forbidden chemical weapons, but also because ...

Who are the strongest countries in Asia ? Asia has become over the years the most important region of the World for the US but also for the entire West.  Asia has about 60 percent of the world’s population with ...