Russia’s decision to ban diesel exports this week has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, tightening supplies of one of the world’s most widely used fuels and driving prices sharply higher across
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
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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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