The United States and Russia worked to weaken proposed international safeguards for lethal autonomous weapons during United Nations negotiations in Geneva this month, removing provisions that would have required greater reliability, ethical
Nearly a year after fleeing a military coup that ended more than two decades of rule in Syria, former President Bashar Assad is reportedly living in quiet exile in Moscow. According to
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday instructed his senior officials to begin drafting proposals for potential nuclear weapons testing, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent statement that the United States
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More than ten years after jihadi forces stormed the fabled city of Timbuktu, banning music, dancing and imposing sharia law, Mali is once again teetering on the edge of collapse. Fighters affiliated
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on excerpts adapted from an interview with Professor Jiang Xueqin conducted by Cyrus Janssen. “I see geopolitics as a game among different players,” Professor Jiang
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western governments unleashed a barrage of unprecedented sanctions aimed at strangling Moscow’s war economy. From semiconductor exports to banking
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Refined fuel exports from Russia have fallen to levels not seen since the start of the war, as a combination of refinery outages and Western sanctions disrupt the country’s energy trade. According
More Unfortunately, the Budapest summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was cancelled. The reason for this is that Moscow insisted on several demands that cannot be fulfilled in
More India’s state-run refiners are exploring whether they can continue sourcing discounted Russian oil by turning to smaller suppliers, after the U.S. blacklisted major energy firms Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC last week,
More The US President Donald Trump has seemingly shifted gear in the US strategy to stop Russia on its tracks from creating new facts on the ground in Ukraine. Russian forces have the
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In a small village on the banks of the Kunthi river in Kerala, a single red flag, adorned with the hammer and sickle, flutters in the warm autumn breeze. The village is
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed confidence that the United States will grant an exemption for the German subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft from the latest round of US sanctions.
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A new report from the Atlantic Council sheds light on Russia’s increasingly close relationships with China, Iran, and North Korea, revealing how these partnerships have become crucial for Moscow as it continues
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Chinese and Russian operatives are allegedly using “sex warfare” tactics to seduce and spy on Silicon Valley professionals in a growing espionage campaign targeting the U.S. technology sector, according to a report
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Russia secretly acquired Western technology to protect its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic, using front companies to procure sensitive equipment from U.S. and European suppliers, according to an investigation by The
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The Ukrainian government is rapidly depleting its financial reserves amid its ongoing conflict with Russia and could run out of money by April, according to a report by the Spanish newspaper El
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