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, […]
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. […]
A pro-forma first meeting of the Abu Dhabi negotiations to end the war in Ukraine was held on November 10th, but the actual negotiations will start on November 11th. The following pertains to that negotiation if it will occur: “Russian Hardliners Will Shock Kushner and Witkoff” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAUsEmVA_yw 10 November 2026 […]
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 […]
President Trump Thinks the World Will Be Thrilled President Donald Trump held an unscheduled meeting on Thursday, November 5th, with Kirill Dmitriev, a special representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Dmitriev also is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund. Dmitriev was in town heading […]
Vladimir Zelensky has been clear in recent days: the frozen Russian assets must not return to Moscow. “The main point is this: it is crucial to prevent Russia from eventually gaining access to these assets. We clearly understand that Russia wants them back very much. These assets are one of […]
He just has to “creatively coerce” Europe and Ukraine through “plausibly deniable” means. Putin confirmed that the next trilateral Russian-US-Ukrainian talks will be held in Abu Dhabi from 10-11 November. Earlier that same day, Trump’s Special Envoy to Russia Jared Kushner published a detailed post on X about his boss’ […]
A Ukrainian scuba diver has been arrested for a second time over the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines – a case that keeps resurfacing not because investigators lack evidence, but because European courts can’t agree on what that evidence should mean. His arrest in the Croatian coastal […]
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