President Donald Trump held an unscheduled meeting on Thursday, November5th, with Kirill Dmitriev, a special representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Dmitriev also is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund,
European and other Western leaders met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa on Saturday to coordinate their response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial peace plan for Ukraine,
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The head of the French armed forces has stirred controversy with remarks urging the nation to be ready to “lose its children” on the battlefield if it hopes to stand up to
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President Vladimir Putin inspected a dancing humanoid robot during a technology exhibition in Moscow on Wednesday, a demonstration staged by Sberbank and broadcast on state television. The visit, reported alongside broader geopolitical
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India retained its position as the second-largest buyer of Russian crude oil in October, trailing only China, according to data from the European think tank, the Center for Research on Energy and
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Around 1.4 million barrels per day of Russian oil — nearly a third of the country’s seaborne export capacity — are currently being held in tankers as sanctions imposed by the United
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More than two decades into his rule, President Vladimir Putin has reportedly built an extensive network of family influence across Russia’s political and economic elite. According to The Times UK, citing an
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In his new book, former Mossad director Yossi Cohen reveals that he personally secured permission from Russian President Vladimir Putin to carry out Israeli strikes on Iranian arms convoys in Syria and
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President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to restart nuclear testing. The Russians were stunned by the announcement (probably what President Trump intended). However, with or without the Trump announcement, the US probably
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Decades ago, during the intense US–Soviet standoff of the Cold War, a deterrence competition was unleashed through both covert and overt means. From strategic firepower to nuclear deterrence, the Soviets and the
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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
More 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
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