Open Dialogue Research Journal
On November 9, 2026, the Financial Times published excerpts from a letter sent by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to European Council President António Costa. The document triggered an acute governance crisis in Brussels. Berlin threatened to block the European Union’s next seven-year budget for 2028–2034 unless all 27 member states […]
They were laying the groundwork for a campaign to foment socio-political unrest. The FSB announced that it detained two Polish spies who “were collecting and transmitting information about military personnel and facilities of the Ministry of Defense, as well as information about the socio-economic situation in the Kaliningrad region, migration, […]
With the formation of the CIS after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the members of this association faced the question of the need to ensure collective security in the post-Soviet space. After preliminary negotiations and agreements on the search for forms of interaction that suited all the CIS countries, […]
Presumptions of friendship and guarantees in international relations are never secure and rarely lasting. Even when they are given the stamp of firm endurance, a closer look will find greater benefits accruing to one party over the other. When one needs to persuade a weaker power into surrendering real estate […]
Zelensky’s fateful decision was responsible for killing an unthinkable number of Ukrainians over the intervening nearly four years, and if Trump is serious with his claims of wanting to stop the killing, then he can cut Ukraine off to force Zelensky into peace and therefore save the country from him. […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had planned to spend a full day in the Bulgarian city of Varna, but left after just three hours. The convoy of EU officials who arrived to discuss shipping security was met by mass anti-war protests organized by the Vazrazhdane party and local […]
Part I These reactions show a distinction that matters. The king’s language moves from describing history as a stain to describing suffering as a precondition of present culture. For critics, the second framing risks presenting slavery as a source of cultural achievement and does not address responsibility. The difference between […]
France’s streets have been quieter, but the crisis has not eased. On Sunday, protest groups and unions called for more demonstrations after a very large security operation helped contain unrest during nationwide rallies on Saturday. The Interior Ministry said 410,000 people took part in the marches, while authorities deployed 70,000 […]
Part I The language of revolution already occupies the centre of American political debate. On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump promised in his inaugural address «the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense». The phrasing combined radical change with a claim to recover something authentic that had […]
U.S. law enforcement agencies are investigating ties between the Kiev regime and Mexican drug cartels. This is no longer a hypothesis but an established fact uncovered during probes into the illegal activities of Mexico’s largest criminal organizations. The press bureau of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service states in its official release […]
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