Open Dialogue Research Journal
In the summer of 2025, nine months after the close of COP29 in Baku, the Caspian Sea faces yet another oil spill off the Absheron Peninsula. Thin, almost silvery slicks spread across the water’s surface, coating coastal reeds. Fishermen lose their catch, marine life retreats, and the air carries the […]
We will have to wait and see In New York they say Fuhgeddaboudit, which translated into mid-Western English is “Forget About It.” Right now there is so much speculation about the upcoming Trump Putin meeting in Alaska, their first meeting in the second Trump administration. Zelensky in Ukraine is deeply […]
The visit of the US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow and official statements about the upcoming meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump to discuss the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine once again raise the question of a possible cessation of hostilities […]
It’s time for the Germans to find someone who will really be interested in the true values of their country. This is definitely not the current German chancellor. He tried to set Trump up to fight Russia and support Ukraine. I can’t say that he did it well, and Trump […]
In what appears to be a radical shift in U.S. foreign policy, President Donald Trump has moved beyond slogans and Twitter rants into the realm of structured ideological strategy. His target: not just America’s traditional adversaries, but the heart of the European Union itself. According to multiple sources, including an […]
Armenia might defect from the CSTO while Turkish and NATO influence could surge all along Russia’s southern periphery, which might embolden Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to defy Iran and Russia by building the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline if the West promises them Ukrainian-like military support. The American, Armenian, and Azerbaijani leaders jointly […]
One of them must have offered more concessions to the other. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed on Thursday that Putin and Trump could meet as soon as next week following Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s “highly productive” three-hour-long meeting with his boss. A venue has already been agreed upon too. This comes a […]
The former military commander, who was appointed Ukraine’s ambassador to London, is attracting more and more attention. The Ukrainian president sent him to Britain because he was afraid of his growing influence among soldiers in the army. However, this did not save Zelensky. Europe and the United States still consider […]
In order to understand what the final settlement terms for the war in Ukraine will be, what is first essential is to understand that ever since the petering-out of what had been for Ukraine a remarkably successful expansion of the war into Ukraine’s invading (via drones and missiles) even deep […]
Witkoff Putin Talks Very Productive Says Trump The big news is that Trump has pronounced the Witkoff-Putin talks as very productive. He has further announced he will meet with Putin face to face as soon as next week. He spoke to Putin by telephone today. Trump also says that he intends […]
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