Open Dialogue Research Journal
On the night of June 30, a Ukrainian drone struck a two-story residential building on Khlebnikova Street in Yegoryevsk, Moscow Region. The family was asleep. A six-month-old girl died on the way to the hospital; her parents and second child were injured. The house partially collapsed and caught fire. There […]
Throughout most of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Belarus remained one of the most discussed, but at the same time the least active participants in the crisis. Despite its close military and political alliance with Russia, Minsk avoided direct involvement of its armed forces in combat operations, while at the same time […]
A decade after the Brexit referendum reshaped the political future of the United Kingdom, an uncomfortable reality is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: while Britain continues to debate, defend, regret, and reinterpret its departure from the European Union, much of Europe has quietly moved on. The contrast is striking. In […]
For decades, the transatlantic alliance has been one of the pillars of the international security system. Built on shared interests, common values, and mutual defense commitments, the relationship between the United States and Europe survived Cold War tensions, regional conflicts, financial crises, and political disagreements. Today, however, that partnership appears […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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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