Russia and China's growing 'friendship' is more a public relations exercise than a new world order
Feb 08, 2022 03:37 am UTC| Politics
Against the backdrop of a western diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, China and Russia have marked the occasion by showing off their increasingly close relationship. Russias president Vladimir Putin posed...
Sanctions: a brief history from Ancient Greece to Vladimir Putin's Russia
Feb 02, 2022 09:27 am UTC| Economy
Faced with the imminent possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and what appears to be a deteriorating diplomatic stand-off, NATO and other western allies are again turning to sanctions in the absence of other viable...
Can the US find enough natural gas sources to neutralize Russia's energy leverage over Europe?
Feb 02, 2022 09:09 am UTC| Insights & Views
The prospect of conflict between Russia and NATO countries over Ukraine has raised fears of an energy crisis in Europe. Russia provides nearly half of Europes natural gas, and some leaders worry that Moscow could tighten...
What's NATO, and why does Ukraine want to join?
Feb 02, 2022 09:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
International concern about Russias provocative stance toward Ukraine continues, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin denies plans for an attack and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cautioned on Jan. 28, 2022,...
Ukraine crisis is reminding Nato why it was formed in the first place
Jan 26, 2022 04:39 am UTC| Politics
As Russian troops mobilise near Ukraines border and appear poised to invade, so the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) has assumed its traditional role as a bastion of European defence. That mission the one for...
In Kazakhstan, Russia follows a playbook it developed in Ukraine
Jan 10, 2022 13:54 pm UTC| Politics
Add Kazakhstan to the list of former Soviet republics whose independence is now being threatened by Russia. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is using a similar playbook in Kazakhstan to one that he has used over almost a...
The U.S. failed in Afghanistan by trying to moralize with bullets and bombs
Jan 10, 2022 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Last August, the world watched the chaotic and painful American departure from Afghanistan. It led to a profound reckoning: how could two decades of war end in such humiliating defeat at the hands of Taliban...
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