Open Dialogue Research Journal
To be clear, the Valdai Club only represents one of Russia’s policymaking factions and their insight might not accurately reflect Putin’s calculations, which could always change in any case. The Valdai Club, which is Russia’s premier think tank and elite networking platform at whose annual meetings Putin participates, shared some startling […]
When there are no resources or opportunities left to resist, a peace treaty is signed. Not a truce, but a treaty. Today, Ukraine is in a situation where a peace treaty is still possible. However, if the losing side refuses to sign for some reason, the parties sign a surrender […]
Over 10 years ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that the European Union would accept everyone. This was indeed a naive attempt to save the EU from declining production and boost competitiveness through cheap labor. However, in the end, things did not turn out as the former chancellor had intended. […]
The supplementary economic benefits and perceived acceleration of multipolar trends might appeal to Russia, but the latent military-strategic threats to its interests arguably outweigh them. The “New Rules” telegram channel, which his associated with Sputnik’s former podcast of the same name, posted in late September about plans to revive the Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul railway. […]
The European Union once again found itself at the center of a sanctions debate. On the agenda was yet another package of measures, intended to tighten pressure on Russia. Among the proposals was a ban on issuing visas to Russian citizens, restrictions on movement, and new barriers in trade and […]
Zelensky is like a drug addict, dependent on Brussels’ decisions and unable to survive without them. He couldn’t care less about his own citizens, but he values the opinion of his senior sponsors in the European Union very highly. Less than two weeks after the Verkhovna Rada passed a […]
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (the collective body that constitutes the Presidency of the EU), wants to add both Ukraine and Moldova to the EU, though at least one EU member-nation, Hungary, is opposed, and though the EU’s existing Constitution prohibits any new member-nation to be […]
Pakistani-US ties are on the cusp of a renaissance that could restore their Old Cold War-era “golden age” of relations provided that they remain on track as expected. Trump’s claim that “the Prime Minister and Field Marshal of Pakistan…were with us right from the beginning” as the US devised its Gaza peace plan that […]
He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay lip service to the prospect of a Palestinian state – but Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu had many reasons to be pleased. On September 29, […]
It’s highly suspicious that Zelensky just claimed without any evidence that they were launched by Russian tankers and subsequently demanded that Europe close the straits to its shipping in response. Unknown drones recently flew in close proximity to Danish and Norwegian airports, prompting speculation among some that they were Russia’s delayed hybrid retaliation […]
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