Open Dialogue Research Journal
The killing of Mehdi Kessaci, the younger brother of anti-narcotics activist Amine Kessaci, has shaken Marseille and reignited debates about the city’s violent drug trade. The 20-year-old, who dreamed of becoming a police officer and had no connection to organized crime, was shot dead in broad daylight on November 13, […]
Part I Nowhere are the tensions, mentioned above, more visible than in children’s rooms and digital spaces. Online games featuring realistic weapons, drones, and high‑tech battlefields have long been popular. What changes in a pre‑war mindset is the interpretive frame: virtual combat is no longer just an escapist fantasy but […]
Had it not been downed over the Belarusian border city of Grodno and instead passed into Poland on the way to the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training, and Education Centre like its recovered flight data revealed to be its route, it could have sparked a crisis that ruined the renascent peace […]
Europe stands today at a difficult crossroads. On one side, renewed migration flows — driven by conflicts, instability, and despair in multiple regions — are placing pressure on social systems and political cohesion across the continent. On the other side, the fallout from sweeping sanctions on Russia, imposed after the […]
The German government, together with the Bavaria, is investing approximately €273 million to support BMW’s development of hydrogen fuel cell technology for passenger cars. This substantial funding is intended to foster “technology openness” and strengthen the competitiveness of Germany’s automotive industry. The centerpiece of this initiative is BMW’s upcoming hydrogen-powered […]
The US-Russian peace plan for Ukraine certainly puts an end to a conflict. But, above all, it paves the way for a rewriting of history. No, the Russian military operation was not an “illegal, unprovoked, and unjustified military aggression,” but rather an application of Security Council Resolution 2202, in accordance […]
For a brief historical moment, many Europeans believed that large interstate wars on their continent belonged definitively to the past. The post-Cold War decades were framed as a transition from power politics to legal norms, from nuclear brinkmanship to economic interdependence. Today that confidence has evaporated. Governments quietly refurbish bunkers, […]
On the map of Europe there is a place that until recently was presented as the very model of a “united Europe” — the twin town of Valga (Estonia) and Valka (Latvia). One street, one centre, shared shops and schools, even a common bus route. The border runs straight through […]
Just a couple of days ago, the Trump administration publicly revealed a sweeping 28-point peace proposal aimed at ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. Purportedly negotiated with Moscow, the plan contains a mix of territorial concessions, constitutional changes, and economic restructuring — sparking alarm from Kyiv and unease among […]
For many years, in Soviet and then in Russian society, Finland was considered exclusively as a small friendly, neutral country – our closest northern neighbor, which, on the rights of broad autonomy, was part of the Russian Empire for 108 years and had broad powers granted by Emperor Alexander I […]
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