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A Top Russian Diplomat Shared Updates About Talks With Ukraine & Ties With The CIS

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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Germany’s Risky Break With The Great Powers

Germany’s prosperity rested on a carefully balanced triangle of relationships with the world’s major powers for decades. Cheap Russian energy fueled its industry, China absorbed its exports and integrated German firms into global growth, and the United States guaranteed security while anchoring Germany to the western political and economic order. […]

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Energy Crisis And Deindustrialisation: EU-US Tensions Lead To Decline In American LNG Natural Gas Purchases

Growing tensions between the European Union and the United States have led to a decline in American liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchases from terminals in Greece. The diversified energy supply that Brussels now advocates remains difficult to implement, and the only logical solution is a return to Russian gas. Brussels, […]

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Orbán’s Strategic Confrontation With Brussels

The annual state of the nation address by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán marks not simply a campaign speech ahead of parliamentary elections, but a strategic reframing of Hungary’s geopolitical positioning. With elections two months away, Orbán has sharpened his long-standing conflict with the European Union, redefining the primary threat […]

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Orban Is Right: Ukraine Has Truly Become Hungary’s Enemy

It’s also the enemy of Europe’s conservative-nationalists, who’d be left leaderless if Kiev and Brussels succeed in ‘democratically deposing’ Orban during early April’s next parliamentary elections and replacing his leadership of their movement with a collection of anti-Russian Polish figures. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently declared that “As long as Ukraine […]