No matter how turbulent global politics becomes in the coming decades, New Delhi is convinced that Moscow will remain a reliable and valuable partner
President Vladimir Putin’s current visit to India is his first since the start of the Special Military Operation in 2022. This gives it a certain symbolic weight: over the past three years, Russia–India relations have not only withstood the impact of Western sanctions and political pressure but have also developed to a degree that would have seemed...
... of speech to alter meaning, selectively censoring facts, and engaging in contextual distortions.
Elena Zinovieva, Bai Yajie:
Digital Sovereignty in Russia and China
Behind the large-scale blockade mechanisms lies a conceptual
framework
that views society as a network of multidomain interactions among individuals, institutions, and symbols, in which informational influence is aimed at undermining society’s very ability to form coherent interpretations of reality. Information overload leads to ...
“Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.”
Genghis Khan
The world is continuing to play with fire. Does that mean we will witness a global conflagration?
According to Chinese traditions, 2026 will be the Year of the Fire Horse, a constellation that only occurs once every sixty years. Such years are marked by power and dynamism; the Fire Horse symbolizes setting off and new beginnings. These are eventful years that can bring happiness and great promise...
... traditions of the North. The aggressive dissemination of a proselytizing form of radical Salafism through a network of religious institutes (
maahid ‘ilmiyya
), supervised by al-Islah, was perceived by communities as a state policy that alienated society from the state. Dissatisfaction with the socioeconomic and political situation in the country took the form of identity-based conflicts, unprecedented in the country’s history. These conflicts had nothing in common with Sunni–Shia antagonisms ...
The physicality of work is ceding to automation and AI-centricity, and real value creation now resides in mental performance. A new global divide emerges—between explicit knowledge, curated within Ivy walls and leather-bound books shelved for antiquity, and tacit knowledge, thriving in entrepreneurial mysticism: an instinct-driven mindset to take lifelong risks and create enterprises.
The Mind-First Age marks a historic pivot: This force dances through the cerebral canyons in search of unexplainable...
International response remains fragmented
As of the fall of 2025, the Gaza Strip is in the grip of a profound humanitarian crisis. After nearly two years of conflict, which began in October 2023, the toll on civilians is catastrophic. Weakened by a long blockade, the enclave’s population now stands on the brink of humanitarian disaster: tens of thousands of people dead, mass displacement, collapsing infrastructure, famine and outbreaks of disease.
Conflict dynamics
The war in Gaza began on October...
Tension and hopelessness within the Turkish opposition have been stoked by the ongoing political crisis, which has demonstrated that the government has penetrated the opposition and that the Republican People's Party (CHP) is split
Turkey is going through a serious and perilous political crisis that will affect democracy and political work in the future. The Turkish state, represented by the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), perceives the "Kurdish solution" project as one of its most...
On September 18, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) co-hosted a roundtable titled "Russia-Mexico Relations: A View from Moscow and Mexico City"
On September 18, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) co-hosted a roundtable titled "Russia-Mexico Relations: A View from Moscow and Mexico City".
The event was opened with welcoming remarks...
The primary objective of "Kurdish-Turkish reconciliation" is Turkish foreign policy
Upon reaching an agreement with the Turkish state, Turkey has taken the first definitive step towards executing the “
Terror-Free Turkey
” plan, which seeks to find a legal and constitutional approach for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arsenal. Last October, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan backed this plan, which was
promoted
by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet...
The Islamic Republic appears to be deliberately seeking to strengthen Iranian-Islamic identity by combining Islamic revolutionary values with elements of nationalism
For the first time in three weeks, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made a public
appearance
, attending a significant Shiite Muslim religious ceremony. Reformists and others from Iran's political spectrum have praised Khamenei's come back, which comes amid increased fears of an Israeli assassination attempt. This...
