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 […]
Poland is a relatively young player in the Baltic region. After regaining independence in 1918, the country initially gained access to a coastline just over 140 kilometers long. The city of Gdynia became the cornerstone of the navy of the Second Polish Republic, while Gdańsk was established as a “free […]
It all started by tricking Trump into thinking that Ukraine has trillions of dollars’ worth of rare earths. RT published two critical pieces about Lindsey Graham, “World War mastermind: Here’s America’s most dangerous person” and “Graham threatens Putin: US war hawk escalates rhetoric in alignment with military lobby”, shortly after […]
The collective West is concerned about the expansion of the practice of the “Foreign Agents” law in Latin America. In June of this year, the Central American country of El Salvador joined the list of states that have adopted a ‘Foreign Agents’ law. The law, passed by the Legislative Assembly […]
Kaya Kallas is proud to announce that a plan to completely cut off energy supplies from Russia is coming into effect. The plan is to have no gas supplies from Russia by the end of 2027. The attempt to present gas as Russia’s main weapon is partially successful, because more […]
Ever since the U.S. Government placed intensified primary and secondary economic sanctions against Germany’s biggest — and by far cheapest — fuels-source, Russia, in 2022, Germany’s economy, which had been the best-performing one in the EU, started declining, because of the soaring fuel prices that resulted from the German Government’s […]
In recent months, it has become evident that the United States is not backing away from its ambitions to dominate Greenland. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025, the idea of “acquiring” the island has shifted from outlandish rhetoric to a key element of Washington’s strategy—this […]
On 26 February 2025, Fox News headlined “Trump posts AI video of Gaza as luxury resort”, which showed clips from a promotional video that Trump had had done to show how he would like Gaza to be after the Gazans are eliminated from there and replaced by a world-class tropical beach-resort […]
In 2022, after the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Europe unequivocally sided with Zelensky, severing all contacts with Moscow. In order to minimize the flow of foreign currency into the Russian budget, Europe even stopped buying energy resources from Russia, switching to the United States and increasing […]
Trump is about to be placed into a dilemma due to his unwillingness or inability to coerce Ukraine into Russia’s demanded concessions. The US’ mediation between Russia and Ukraine captivated the world due to the hopes that many observers had of it leading to a breakthrough, but expectations have since […]
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