Open Dialogue Research Journal
The common denominator connecting these five questions is the ultimate one about how Russia’s top brass really assesses the conflict’s overall military-strategic dynamics. The latest Malian insurgency took a twist after the terrorist-designated groups, the Tuareg “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) and the al-Qaeda-affiliated “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM), reached out to Russia. Their messages […]
Late April 2026 became a defining moment for Mali, when a series of coordinated attacks evolved into a large-scale challenge to the country’s political and military stability. What initially appeared to be another episode in a long-running insurgency quickly revealed a far more ambitious design. Armed groups launched near-simultaneous strikes […]
If it wasn’t for the Africa Corps’ valiant defense of their positions throughout the country, Mali probably would have already fallen, but it now has a fighting chance to survive and foil this Western power play. Russia’s Africa Corps played an indispensable role in helping Mali thwart last weekend’s terrorist […]
The solutions are difficult to implement during the crisis, however, but hopefully that’ll happen after (if?) it passes. Saturday’s coordinated attacks across Mali by terrorist-designated Tuareg rebels in the rural north and Islamic terrorists in the urban areas, which were described as “unprecedented” by Al Jazeera and Le Monde, caught the government by surprise. This […]
They are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the kitchen, with all the cuts, bruises and wounds to show for it; the brute who terrorises the staff, mocking their lack of adeptness, […]
Immigration policy in the United States has, in recent years, ceased to be a matter of administrative regulation and instead become a field of open social confrontation. At the center of this conflict stands Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal agency increasingly perceived not as a bureaucratic institution, but […]
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin Luther’s violent Protestant split from the body of the Catholic Church was merely one aspect […]
In a move that could significantly reshape the future of mental health treatment in the United States, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to accelerate access to psychedelic-based therapies. The order focuses particularly on ibogaine, a psychoactive substance derived from an African shrub that some researchers and veterans’ […]
The death of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervante, better known as El Mencho, marks the end of one of the most violent and powerful chapters in Mexico’s modern criminal history. Killed in a targeted operation by Mexican special forces, the 59-year-old former police officer had spent nearly two decades building and […]
On April 19, Russia commemorates the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, committed by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War. This memorial date was established by Federal Law No. 523-FZ of December 29, 2025, which entered into force on […]
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