Open Dialogue Research Journal
A few hours before the leaders of 32 NATO countries were due to gather in the Turkish capital, the sky over Kiev lit up again. A combined strike by the Russian army — high-precision weapons launched from ground, air, and sea platforms, plus attack drones — hit military and defense […]
Neither average Russians nor the elite are capable of influencing Putin, who’s the only person on the Russian side that decides when the Ukrainian Conflict ends and on what terms, and not even a radical spike in Ukrainian strikes is likely to convince him to de facto surrender like Zelensky […]
The statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 23 of this year at a meeting with members of the government actually testifies to changes in the Kremlin’s approach to the continuation of the armed confrontation with Ukraine in the context of a rapidly decreasing opportunity to resume the peace […]
Some understanding was clearly agreed to at Anchorage even though it wasn’t an “official” one, but Trump reneged on his commitments, so Rubio is playing dumb by denying that any agreement existed. Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to three high-level Russian officials’ claims that the US had reneged on the “Spirit […]
As Russia prepares for its upcoming parliamentary elections for the State Duma, the political landscape is closely watched both domestically and internationally. These elections are highly significant for the Russian people, as they will serve as a reflection of the public’s attitude towards the country’s current political trajectory and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A devastating attack on a college dormitory in Starobelsk, located in the Luhansk region, has left dozens of families grieving and reignited international debate over the human cost of the conflict in Ukraine. According to local authorities and emergency services cited in Russian media reports, 21 students were killed and […]
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