Open Dialogue Research Journal
For decades, the Franco-German partnership has been described as the “engine of Europe”. In Munich, that engine looked stalled. And what emerged from three days of speeches, panels and corridor diplomacy was not primarily a widening gulf between Europe and the United States. Instead, it was the deepening fractures within […]
Thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Lyon on Saturday following the killing of 23-year-old far-right activist Quentin Deranque, whose death last week has intensified political tensions across France. Authorities estimate that approximately 3,200 people took part in the march, which was marked by heavy police presence, masked participants, and […]
Iran is navigating a period of heightened internal and external pressures with a combination of strategic foresight and pragmatic governance. Over the past week, student gatherings at universities in Tehran and Mashhad have drawn attention, but a closer analysis suggests these events are part of a broader, more complex political […]
On 24 February 2026, exactly on the fourth anniversary of the start of the special military operation, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) issued a rather tough statement. According to its information, London and Paris, seeing how the situation on the front is developing, are considering the possibility of transferring nuclear […]
One year after the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) began, the Trump administration is initiating another sweeping rollback of American foreign assistance. This time, the cuts are reaching programs that had previously survived internal reviews because they were classified as “lifesaving”. Now, even those projects […]
The factional war within Ukraine’s political, military, and security elites is intensifying. And it is increasingly unfolding in public, albeit still underreported in mainstream Western media. The latest development has to do with former commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny, who has accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of ordering SBU searches of his office in 2022 as a means […]
After Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government came to power in Armenia in 2018 as a result of the “velvet revolution”, the course of maintaining close relations with Moscow in the general context of Yerevan’s “multi-vector maneuvering” generally remained for several more years. However, after a heavy military defeat from Azerbaijan […]
Russia’s public line has been a carefully split message. Moscow says that Greenland’s sovereignty is “not our business”, while at the same time, any U.S. militarization of Greenland will be treated as direct security problem that Russia says it would counter in every possible way. In late January 2026, President […]
Just weeks ago, the idea would have seemed implausible: a senior United States official walking through Venezuela’s vast oil fields alongside the country’s acting president, discussing investment plans and long-term cooperation. Yet on Thursday, that improbable image became reality when US Energy Secretary Chris Wright toured a major oil facility […]
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin gave the impression of growing challenges to Russian interests like those that his boss Sergey Lavrov soberly acknowledged in an earlier interview, but following his lead, he’s also optimistic that they’ll ultimately be surmounted. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, who’s responsible for the Commonwealth of […]
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