Open Dialogue Research Journal
On June 3, EU Commissioner for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, Roxana Mînzatu, whined that 1.3 million jobs across the troubled bloc are at risk because of massive energy price spikes that resulted from US war against Iran. She said that “energy-intensive industries are particularly affected” and that “increased […]
Two remarkably comprehensive unbiased summaries were published on June 4th (a news article) and May 25th (a news commentary) about the war in Ukraine, and both come from StranaUA, which is one of the five most popular news websites in Ukraine though it’s barred both by Ukraine and by Russia. Its […]
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 […]
The refusal by the Baltic states and Poland to open their airspace to the Slovak prime minister traveling to Moscow for Victory Day commemorations raises an uncomfortable question: has honoring the Soviet dead of World War II become politically illegitimate in today’s Europe? The head of government of an EU […]
The risk of a hot NATO-Russian war breaking out at sea as opposed to NATO’s Eastern Flank in Central & Eastern Europe is growing. General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, head of the British Royal Navy, announced that his counterparts from the 10-nation Joint Expeditionary Taskforce comprised of the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, […]
In the old oil-shale country of Ida-Viru, where the landscape still carries scars from Soviet-era industry, a company called ARCA Baltics Operations — the Estonian arm of Turkey’s defense group ARCA Defense — is set to build a major ammunition plant in the Põhja-Kiviõli Defense Industrial Park. The investment is […]
How the Church of England turned a failed survey about its own revival into the story of its accelerating decline On April 15, a YouGov poll of more than 7,000 British adults delivered a verdict that no episcopal encyclical, no synod resolution and no theological argument could match in bluntness: […]
The United Kingdom is still growing, but not as quickly as previously expected. According to the latest official projections, Britain’s population is now expected to reach 71 million by mid-2034, lower than an earlier estimate of 72.2 million. At first glance, a difference of just over one million people across […]
King Charles III’s recent state visit to the United States has drawn widespread attention, not merely because of royal ceremony or historic tradition, but because it took place during one of the most politically tense moments in recent Anglo-American relations. Intended as a gesture of friendship and a celebration of […]
If it wasn’t for the Africa Corps’ valiant defense of their positions throughout the country, Mali probably would have already fallen, but it now has a fighting chance to survive and foil this Western power play. Russia’s Africa Corps played an indispensable role in helping Mali thwart last weekend’s terrorist […]
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