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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

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

RIAC President Dmitriy Trenin, speaks in an interview on Russia’s path in a changing world

The relevance of Peter the Great’s progressivism remains, although it is no longer confined to the West, which has lost its monopoly as the leader of modernization

On April 2, 2026, a roundtable “Dynamics of the Middle East Conflict: Scenarios and Forecasts” was held at the Izvestia Multimedia Information Center

Report No. 108 / 2026

The United States desperately needs a decisive victory in its war