Open Dialogue Research Journal
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 […]
Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a series of pragmatic diplomatic-military compromises aimed at resolving the Ukrainian Conflict and jointly building the new continental security architecture. Zelensky recently proposed a partial truce with Russia that would include, […]
Their social contract of economic growth, security, and staying away from citizens’ personal lives for the most part has been greatly challenged by the ongoing conflict, but foreign efforts to influence voters into dealing the ruling party a defeat inspired them to defiantly rally around it instead. The ruling United […]
Final results are still coming in, but one thing is already certain: United Russia, the party founded by incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin, is set to gain an absolute majority of seats in the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia’s parliament. After 97% of the votes had been counted, […]
The ruling liberal coalition is suffering from “Russophrenia”. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote that Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has “Russophobia of the brain” after he declared that “we would defeat Russia quite quickly” “if Russia attacks us and we took our gloves off”. While her post claimed that he was referring […]
Agreeing to dispatch their peacekeepers, particularly to the part of Donbass from which Ukraine might withdraw and the rest of the frontline at minimum, could be the spark required for moving the stalled peace process along and finally placing the conflict on the path to a comprehensive resolution. Kremlin spokesman […]
Russia is entering the final days before its 2026 State Duma elections against an increasingly tense domestic and international backdrop. Voting will take place from September 18 to 20, with all 450 seats in the State Duma at stake. The election is the first parliamentary vote since the beginning of […]
Polish MP Marek Jakubiak put it bluntly: the war in Ukraine has become a money-laundering operation. “Two hundred billion euros have simply disappeared. The European Union asks where the money is, and Zelensky replies — I don’t know.” European officials, he argued, cling to Zelensky not out of ideological conviction, […]
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. […]
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