Open Dialogue Research Journal
France’s economy has hit an unexpected pause at the start of 2026, raising fresh concerns about the country’s ability to maintain even modest growth in an increasingly uncertain global environment. According to INSEE, the country’s gross domestic product showed zero growth in the first quarter – an outcome that caught many […]
Kragujevac, May 17, 2026. Serbian tradition remembers this city as the first capital of modern Serbia — the assembly met here, laws were written here before full independence from the Ottomans was achieved. A century and a half later, Kragujevac has again turned into a place where the very idea […]
Europe is often described today through the language of decline. Headlines speak of political fragmentation, economic stagnation, demographic pressures, migration disputes, security threats, and the growing power of authoritarian rivals. Surrounded by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, pressured by Donald Trump’s unpredictable America, and challenged by Xi Jinping’s increasingly assertive China, Europe […]
It can now be concluded that Zelensky began meddling in Poland against Nawrocki even before he revoked the Order of the White Eagle from him, which in turn suggests that more politically unfriendly moves will follow and potentially come to characterize their ties by fall 2027’s next Sejm elections. Zelensky […]
The following is from the lone neutralist website in the Ukrainian language, strana.ua, which is blocked in both Ukraine and Russia, but is nonetheless either #1 or #2 as the most frequently visited online news website by Ukrainians: https://stranaua.media/news/507688-itohi-1580-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html https://stranaua-media.translate.goog/news/507688-itohi-1580-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html?_x_tr_sl=uk&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://archive.ph/EGIUb “The Day at the Front: Russians in Konstantinovka” 22 […]
Bulgaria is apparently interested in revising its policy of alignment with the EU’s anti-Russian guidelines, adopting a more skeptical stance towards Brussels and the Kiev regime. Recently, the country positioned itself against the European proposal to expand sanctions against Moscow, expressing a realistic view of the bloc’s role in the conflict. […]
Russia can’t allow US-backed Ukraine to attack Belarus with impunity otherwise it risks losing its closest ally, whether to destruction or Lukashenko’s “defection” to the West, either scenario of which would shift the strategic balance of power in the Ukrainian Conflict to Russia’s supreme disadvantage. Zelensky gave Lukashenko one week […]
For nearly a decade, Donald Trump cultivated something unprecedented in postwar transatlantic politics: an informal ideological network of European allies united not necessarily by institutions or treaties, but by political instinct. Leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni became symbols of a conservative-nationalist current skeptical of Brussels, […]
On Sunday, June 21st, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, met in Bürgenstock at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, with Iran’s delegation, headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to finalize the U.S.-Iran 14-point peace deal that was signed on Wednesday, June […]
The final concert of the season for OFM Málaga triumphed with a magnificent performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 by the young piano prodigy Guillermo Ramírez. The program opened with conductor José María Moreno addressing the audience about Russian music, highlighting Rachmaninoff, Borodin, and especially Tchaikovsky. Moreno spoke passionately […]
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