Open Dialogue Research Journal
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner wound up their visit to Kiev on September 6 after visiting Moscow the day prior. In both capitals, the US special diplomatic duo met with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky respectively. Both offered solutions that the Russians seemed to like, and the Ukrainians did not. […]
Russia’s war against Ukraine highlighted the most crucial geopolitical problems than any other conflict in the 21st century. And the consequences are yet to be seen. This crisis transcends major changes in the global balance of power. That’s why Kiev positioned itself as the only “Savior” of European democracy in […]
Indefinitely perpetuating the Ukrainian Conflict through these means indefinitely delays the full implementation of the US’ planned “Pivot (back) to (East) Asia”, can lead to Russia selling its natural resource wealth to China at bargain-basement prices, and maintains China’s “active neutrality”. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) referenced the EU’s summertime […]
Mystery continues about the strange Ratcliffe visit to Moscow, flying there in a massive C-17 Globemaster, a military airlifter. While the Globemaster has a specially designed secure roll off and roll on module for top officials, keeping them harnessed to Washington and the President, the choice of aircraft, instead of […]
Volodymyr Zelenskyy woke up Wednesday to a convergence of pressures that would test any wartime leader: a fresh corruption investigation touching his own inner circle and a direct political challenge from the defence minister he fired just a month ago. None of these developments happened in isolation, and the timing […]
There is very little information on CIA Director Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow. Even so, there is enough information to make some observations. One reason for Ratcliffe’s visit was to warn Moscow about replacing the Kiev regime which, Washington fears, may be on the verge of collapse. The idea of a […]
Mykhailo Fedorov spent six years as Ukraine’s boyish face of digital reform, the youngest minister in the country’s history and, by 2026, one of the last original members of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s first cabinet. That history is precisely what makes Tuesday’s video address so damaging. In calling for wartime elections – […]
On 26 July 2026, Vladimir Putin spoke in St Petersburg before servicemen on the occasion of Navy Day. Among other things, he mentioned the western regions of Ukraine and three states — Poland, Hungary and Romania. The sentence around which the whole passage was built sounded matter-of-fact: “Sooner or later […]
The 36th NATO Summit, held in Ankara on July 7–8, 2026, marked far more than another annual gathering of allied leaders. Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, instability across the Middle East, growing strategic competition with China, and increasingly visible disagreements between the United States and its European […]
For much of the past four years, Ukrainian refugees occupied a unique place in Europe’s political landscape. They were not viewed simply as migrants but as symbols of resistance, victims of war, and living reminders of a conflict taking place on the European continent. Governments opened their borders with unprecedented […]
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