Open Dialogue Research Journal
On 26 July 2026, Vladimir Putin spoke in St Petersburg before servicemen on the occasion of Navy Day. Among other things, he mentioned the western regions of Ukraine and three states — Poland, Hungary and Romania. The sentence around which the whole passage was built sounded matter-of-fact: “Sooner or later […]
The transition of power within Britain’s governing Labour Party is gathering pace, but behind public displays of unity, tensions appear to be running high. As Andy Burnham becomes the country’s next prime minister, his first formal meeting with ex-Prime Minister Keir Starmer reportedly exposed the political and personal strains created […]
A powerful earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing at least 51 people, injuring more than 100 others and forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes as landslides cut roads and aftershocks kept communities on edge. The magnitude-7.7 earthquake hit East Nusa Tenggara province, leaving behind damaged buildings, disrupted […]
The 36th NATO Summit, held in Ankara on July 7–8, 2026, marked far more than another annual gathering of allied leaders. Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, instability across the Middle East, growing strategic competition with China, and increasingly visible disagreements between the United States and its European […]
As of August 2026, Syria’s government under President Ahmed Al-Sharaa appears considerably stronger than it did after Bashar al-Assad’s fall in December 2024. Damascus controls most major cities, has recovered important oil and gas fields, secured sanctions relief, joined the international coalition against “Islamic State” and established working relationships with […]
Russia is approaching one of the most politically significant elections of the post-2022 period. On September 20, Russians will elect the State Duma of the ninth convocation, with voting taking place from September 18 to 20. All 450 parliamentary seats are at stake: 225 deputies will be elected in single-member […]
Deeply rooted in Western political and public consciousness, modern Russophobia has a long-term existential character, dictated not only by strategic political and economic interests, but also by centuries-old civilizational confrontation. This hostility is fully reflected in the political and cultural code of the West, which views Russia not as a […]
In the third millennium, perhaps, this is the first anniversary of such a significant figure who really changed the course of history in the twentieth century (all previous leaders who had a huge impact in the same century – we are talking about constructive influence, were born in the 19th […]
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