Open Dialogue Research Journal
While Steve Witkoff flies to St. Petersburg and offers Putin a three-way summit with Trump and Zelensky, Brussels is already counting who will speak to the Kremlin. If Europe ends up outside the room again, it will be left only to pay for someone else’s peace. Politico puts it bluntly: […]
The Ukrainian drone operation mounted against St. Petersburg on the night of October 17-18 has revived an awkward question that the Baltic governments and Helsinki have preferred to leave unexamined, which is whether such a large attacking force could possibly have reached its objectives without crossing NATO airspace. Russian sources […]
The conflict could freeze along the frontlines if the US coerces the EU and Ukraine into agreeing to the resumption of Russian energy imports through partially US-controlled pipelines while convincing Russia to agree to the deployment of European forces to Ukraine without the US’ Article 5 protection. Zelensky said that […]
In February 2027, it will be five years since the start of the special military operation. In the history of the Soviet Union and modern Russia, this armed conflict has no precedent in terms of its duration. Then, in April 2022, no one in Moscow could even imagine in the […]
The Kiev regime’s attacks on Yandex data centers in several Russian cities have taken the military confrontation to a new level. Earlier, similar strikes were carried out by the Russian army as part of a Special military operation on the territory of Ukraine controlled by the Kiev regime. Thus, as […]
Russia could legally transfer ownership of its frozen assets to the US, which would then be returned to Russia in exchange for US stakes in its energy industry that could also deter Ukrainian attacks against it, but Trump will first have to obtain what would then be the US’ frozen […]
On 8 October Kirill Budanov spent about twenty hours in the Bulgarian capital. His meeting with Prime Minister Rumen Radev stayed confidential at Budanov’s request. The next day former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov posted a photo of the two of them. The government had to admit it. On 14 October […]
If even one of the major European governments turns over, Ukraine’s lifeline will be severed. Zelensky’s harsh words about US President Donald Trump was an emotional response after Zelensky deliberately thwarted Trump’s request that Ukraine not strike Russian refineries. Unfortunately Zelensky is making matters worse, and Ukraine’s future is now […]
It represents a pragmatic balance of interests between all sides. The Washington Post reported that Trump’s Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are working on a four-part peace plan for resolving the Ukrainian Conflict. The first part concerns Ukraine’s reconstruction in which BlackRock and the World Bank would take […]
Part I Slovakia’s increasingly unconventional foreign policy has attracted disproportionate attention within Europe. Prime Minister Robert Fico’s willingness to maintain dialogue with Moscow while remaining inside both the European Union and NATO has often been interpreted as evidence of ideological divergence from Brussels. Such explanations, however, overlook a more fundamental […]
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