Open Dialogue Research Journal
The likelihood that it secretly installed sensors in Ukraine to monitor its northern drone strikes is nil so it was either informed by Ukraine or at least the Baltic States across whose airspace the drones are credibly speculated by many in Russia to have passed. Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen […]
Subordination to the West is unthinkable since Putin would never approve of that, nor would the state and society go along with it, so the only real scenarios are stalled talks or Russian muscle-flexing breaking the deadlock. Finnish President Alexander Stubb’s positive response to the scenario of him being designated by the […]
On June 3, EU Commissioner for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, Roxana Mînzatu, whined that 1.3 million jobs across the troubled bloc are at risk because of massive energy price spikes that resulted from US war against Iran. She said that “energy-intensive industries are particularly affected” and that “increased […]
Two remarkably comprehensive unbiased summaries were published on June 4th (a news article) and May 25th (a news commentary) about the war in Ukraine, and both come from StranaUA, which is one of the five most popular news websites in Ukraine though it’s barred both by Ukraine and by Russia. Its […]
Few European countries have undergone a more profound security transformation in recent years than Finland. Since joining NATO in April 2023, the Nordic nation has become one of the alliance’s most valuable contributors, bringing with it a defence model that has been refined over decades rather than built in reaction […]
Here is, from Ukraine, Сергій Флеш’s Post on May 31st: Russian counterpart StarLink – project “Bureau 1440” After “Military” generalized all the information available to the public in the format of a video review on the subject of “Dawn” satellites, I literally have questions. The response is structured: 1. The opponent needs a […]
The situation surrounding the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has once again drawn international attention following another incident at the facility. According to Russian officials, a drone strike recently hit the turbine hall of Unit 6, damaging part of the external structure of the building. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) […]
The Polish-led “cordon sanitaire” that’s taking shape along Russia’s western borders will connect with the Turkish-led one that’s poised to emerge along its southern borders, thus tightening NATO’s military-strategic encirclement of Russia per the “NATO 3.0” model. Bloomberg reported that “Turkey Floats $1.2 Billion Fuel Pipeline to Eastern NATO Allies” […]
One of the special operation’s goals is to neutralize these Ukrainian terrorist threats to civilians that Russia long foresaw but was unable to preemptively avert through diplomatic means. Three waves of Ukrainian drones struck a dormitory in Starobelsk, a town in Russia’s formerly Ukrainian Lugansk Region, last week in an […]
This trend poses a significant threat to Russia, but it also poses an equally significant one to the EU too if it leads to Putin taking seriously his hardliners’ appeals to launch a first strike against NATO. There’s recently been a flurry of news about the increasingly interconnected Arctic and […]
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