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Iran’s Toll System in the Context of Wartime Logic and Civilizational Memory

On April 16, 2026, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a closed academic workshop titled “The Implications of the Iran Crisis for the Contemporary World Order and the Eurasian Region.”

Interview with Ivan Timofeev for Brasil de Fato and Forum Geopolitica

On April 15, 2026, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), in cooperation with the Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India), held a roundtable titled “The Middle East Crisis: Implications for Russia and India”

Dmitriy Trenin: Trump’s announcement of a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, following the failure of the first round of negotiations, amounted to a case of complete strategic incoherence

“Cold Peace” with Iran and Economic Diversification

Dmitri Trenin: The new leadership will likely engage in less confrontation with the Brussels bureaucracy, but Hungary’s “sovereigntist” course can largely be expected to remain unchanged

Locking the Market Before It Opens: The U.S. Strategy to Strand the Global South

Dmitriy Trenin: Eighty years after the end of the World War II, the main threat of an armed conflict once again emanates for us from Europe

This time, the stakes could not be higher: Vietnam’s energy security, a reset in the strategic partnership with Moscow and Russia’s prospects to cement its presence in Southeast Asia

On April 8, 2026, the Moscow Economic Forum hosted a plenary discussion, “Russia and the World After Transformation: New Strategies”

It is difficult to expect the “golden age” promised by Trump to emerge from the upcoming negotiations