Open Dialogue Research Journal
Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the idea of using a reality television program to select immigrants vying for US citizenship. Whether this involves gladiatorial combat or inane pillow battles remains to be seen, though it is […]
After all the guests had left Moscow after the May 9 celebrations, Vladimir Putin held a press conference to which not only Russian but also foreign journalists were invited. It was short-lived, the journalists did not manage to ask any questions, but its content was very significant. The Russian leader […]
The battle was lost but the political war isn’t over. The struggle between liberal-globalists and populist-nationalists in Romania ended in the former’s favor after Sunday’s presidential run-off election, which was preceded by the authorities controversially annulling the first round in early December on the false pretext that the frontrunner was Russian-backed. Calin Georgescu was […]
On May 6, a new chancellor was installed in Germany. This meant that the old chancellor had to leave his office. His government wanted to leave pompously. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stands out from the whole pack. She decided to make another visit abroad in the last week of her […]
Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. It encourages change, for ill or otherwise. The stance taken, righteously pitiful, on not negotiating with those who practise it, is as faulty as battling gravity. The case of Syria’s interim president, […]
On May 9, 2025, in Latvia, as in previous years, authorities recorded a number of administrative processes and detentions related to violations of legislation in the context of celebrating Victory Day. According to the portal LSM.lv, more than 60 administrative cases were initiated, and eight people were detained. The highest […]
Ukraine is much more of a credible threat to Hungary than the inverse. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban revealed after a meeting with the Defense Council that Ukraine is meddling in the ongoing Hungarian referendum over whether to support Ukraine’s EU membership plans. He also accused the opposition of unprecedentedly colluding with them. This […]
The mixed signals that he sent on Friday suggest that he hasn’t made up his mind about what to do. The first bilateral Russian-Ukrainian talks in over three years were held in Istanbul on Friday after Zelensky agreed, likely under pressure from Trump, to Putin’s proposal from the week prior. […]
On May 8, 2025, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cleric with a missionary background in Peru, was elected as Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church. His ascension was hailed as a historic moment, with President Donald Trump calling it a “Great […]
In the United States, the statement of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, dated May 9, 2025, is being actively discussed, where, at a meeting with the reporters, he made the following statement on solving migration problems. “Well, the Constitution is clear. And that, of course, is […]
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