Analytical articles

Putin’s move has been dubbed a “war of choice” by the U.S. administration—in fact, Russia’s military retaliation has been forced on it by the U.S. Russia’s primary concern now is to…

The bottom line is that the costs far outweigh the benefits, which is what underlies our bleak assessment of the current scenario

The sanctions signal the strategy of economic eviction and dramatic abandonment of the West’s earlier strategy of a truly globalized capitalist economy, in which Russia and China are stakeholders

Numerous visits of Western leaders to Moscow on the eve of the crisis are among the foreign policy failures, and the Russian side failed to persuade anything, with political and diplomatic compromise…

Turkey’s political plans for Central Asia appear to be largely hyperbolic and not viable in the long run

The latest developments on the Ukrainian case will undoubtedly have far-reaching ramifications—for the Russian-Ukrainian relations and, more broadly, for security in Europe and globally

Closer Sino-Russian alignment is mainly driven by a shared feeling of facing Western military and normative pressure, resulting in a growing identification of each other as desirable and…

The recommendations addressed most of the areas of common ground so far sketched in Russian, US and NATO exchanges during the present crisis

With the INF Treaty collapsed and Russian proposals to prevent another missile confrontation in Europe possibly rejected, the logical thing to do would be to deploy the revised “Pioneer” missile…

The day of February 16, 2022 will come to be a remarkable moment for the history of contemporary international relations

This time, dialogue must not stop at the height of a crisis, but must intensify

The introduction of amendments to the United Kingdom's sanctions legislation on Russia on the day of the visit was unlikely to achieve any results other than prompting cold restraint from Moscow