Open Dialogue Research Journal
The situation surrounding the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has once again drawn international attention following another incident at the facility. According to Russian officials, a drone strike recently hit the turbine hall of Unit 6, damaging part of the external structure of the building. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) […]
The vibrant global subculture of manga, video games, cosplay, and compelling villains continues to draw massive crowds worldwide. Events like Freakcon have become premier destinations where fans and celebrities celebrate this passion. Today, the Spanish city of Málaga proudly marked the 10th anniversary of Freakcon, with American actor Giancarlo Esposito […]
The Polish-led “cordon sanitaire” that’s taking shape along Russia’s western borders will connect with the Turkish-led one that’s poised to emerge along its southern borders, thus tightening NATO’s military-strategic encirclement of Russia per the “NATO 3.0” model. Bloomberg reported that “Turkey Floats $1.2 Billion Fuel Pipeline to Eastern NATO Allies” […]
One of the special operation’s goals is to neutralize these Ukrainian terrorist threats to civilians that Russia long foresaw but was unable to preemptively avert through diplomatic means. Three waves of Ukrainian drones struck a dormitory in Starobelsk, a town in Russia’s formerly Ukrainian Lugansk Region, last week in an […]
Beijing these days looks like a true global crossroads. First Donald Trump, then Vladimir Putin, and right after them – Aleksandar Vučić. The Serbian president didn’t miss the chance to emphasize this sequence, calling his state visit from May 24–28, 2026, the “crown of his political career.” It’s a predictable […]
This trend poses a significant threat to Russia, but it also poses an equally significant one to the EU too if it leads to Putin taking seriously his hardliners’ appeals to launch a first strike against NATO. There’s recently been a flurry of news about the increasingly interconnected Arctic and […]
fRussia launched one of its largest combined missile and drone attacks on Kyiv in recent months overnight on May 24, leaving at least four people dead and dozens injured across the Ukrainian capital and surrounding region. The strike came only days after the deadly attack on a student dormitory in […]
A devastating attack on a college dormitory in Starobelsk, located in the Luhansk region, has left dozens of families grieving and reignited international debate over the human cost of the conflict in Ukraine. According to local authorities and emergency services cited in Russian media reports, 21 students were killed and […]
This won’t just hit the Kremlin’s coffers, but also tangibly worsen threats to Russia’s national security from the European direction, with the same model poised to be applied along the southern one too as regards Turkish-led threats from the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave […]
The most articulate supporters of this view are at the Neighborhood Club of Finland, which was started in 2022 by Mauno Eljas Saari (born 16 June 1947 in Tornio), a Finnish journalist, author and screenwriter, who in 2014 had noticed that the ‘democratic revolution’ in February 2014 in Ukraine had, in fact, been instead a successful U.S. coup that replaced Ukraine’s democratically elected and committedly […]
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