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• The Russian Military Empire Two Decades After the Soviet Collapse

  

  The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union brought to a drastic reshaping of Russian military power. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Trans-Asian Corridor of Development: Russia’s Super Canal to Unite Eurasia

  

  The decision to create a Eurasian Union on the basis of the Customs Union launched by Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russiaon January 1, 2013, might be one day regarde... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Syria, Caucasus and Xinjiang in Saudi Arabia’s Grand Strategy

  

  While media attention is currently focused on the developments of the Syrian crisis, now become a proxy war between a Western-Arab coalition and a multipolar... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 SOCIETY

• The New Cold War: A Timeline

  

  The worsening of the relations between the United States and Russia, symbolized by the decision of U.S. President Barack Obama to cancel his trip to Moscow for ... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 SOCIETY

• The Geopolitical Centrality of Poland

  

  As noted by Romanian philosopher and historian of religions Mircea Eliade, the man of archaic societies sought to live as near as possible to the centre of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 SOCIETY

• The Real Reason Behind Turkey’s Eurasianist Breakthrough

  

  As of last April 26, Turkey is officially a “dialogue partner” of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the regional security body established in Shangha... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 SOCIETY

• The Rise of Sinorussia and Its Geopolitical Consequences

  

  The fifth summit of the BRICS, held in Durban last month, might go down in history as the birthplace of a multipolar world order in place of US “imperfect... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 SOCIETY

• Soviet Union Vs. Eurasian Union: a Geopolitical Comparison

  

  According to Russia’s latest Foreign Policy Concept – a set of views on the basic principles, priorities, goals and objectives of Russian foreign policy – the... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Syria, Iran and the Future of the CSTO

  

  In May 2007, secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha invited Iran to join the alliance, stating that “the... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 SOCIETY

• The Rise of the Moscow-Islamabad Axis

  

  In what can be regarded as one of the most resounding shifts in Pakistani foreign policy, during his visit to Moscow in May this year, Pakistan’s President... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Putin’s Eurasianist Revolution: Myth Or Reality?

  

  Before dying, in November 2010, French esotericist of Romanian origin Jean Parvulesco argued that, whether we are aware of it or not, we find ourselves at the... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2012 SOCIETY

• Tuva: the “Center of Asia”

  

  Last June, the General Secretary of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkish speaking states (TurkPA), Ramil Hasanov, invited the Russian Federation and its... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2012 SOCIETY

• India-Tajikistan: a Strategic Partnership?

  

  In the framework of India’s “Connect Central Asia” policy, Indian External Affairs Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna flew on Monday to Tajikistan for a two... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Northern Fleet in Russia’s Grand Strategy

  

  Fourteen years after the Kursk disaster, Russia’s Northern Fleet will soon have a new multi-purpose rescue vessel. Currently under construction by the... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Turkmenistan: US Secret Ally in Eurasia

  

  On Wednesday, at a meeting of the State Safety Council of Turkmenistan, the Turkmen president and commander in chief of the armed forces Gurbanguly... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Sibir’ Or Xībólìyà? The Future of Siberia Between Russia and China

  

  On November 14, 1860, the representatives of Czarist Russia and Qing China signed what is known as the Russo-Chinese Convention of Peking. Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2012 SOCIETY

• CSTO: the “NATO of the East”

  

  On May 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin opened in Moscow the 10th anniversary meeting of the CSTO, the Collective Security Treaty Organization regarded by... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Uzbekistan’s Quiet Rapprochement with the US

  

  On Thursday this week, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded in Khuzhand, Tajikistan, its ninth counterterrorism joint military exercise. Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Nagorno-Karabakh: the Trigger of World War III?

  

  On February 23, 2012, the controversial leader of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky predicted the possible outbreak of World War III this... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Neo Pan-Turkism: US Weapon for Control of Eurasia?

  

  On Saturday last week, Iranian General Yahya Rahim Safavi accused Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of serving US and Israeli interests in Syria aimed at... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 SOCIETY