by Mirko Moser-Abt
The migrant crisis and the subsequent political turmoil have banished from our minds a conflict that has been fairly present in Europe for the past two years: the war in Eastern Ukraine. Initially…
by Vladimir Milov
What have we learned and what are the implications for Putin and for relations between Russia and the West from the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal? Here's what we know so far.
Substantial evidence of Putin's…
by Vince Chadwick & Maia De La Baume
The decision to label settlement goods causes friction within the bloc and strains ties with a staunch ally. Israel’s U.S. ambassador sent gift boxes for the 2015 holiday season…
by Martin Arnold
European banks are tentatively re-engaging with Iran as the Middle East’s second-largest economy slowly emerges from a sanctions regime that has kept it in the financial wilderness for years. Belgium’s KBC, Germany’s DZ Bank…
by Kabir Taneja*
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to make one of his more important foreign sojourns this month, as he prepares to visit Iran for a two-day official visit beginning on…
by Vladimir Slivyak
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Coal is one of the dirtiest industries in Russia. Apart from hydropower, renewable energy is practically non-existent. Civil society groups that might push for more sustainable sources of power are few and far…
by Dmitri Trenin
In 2014, amid the Ukraine crisis, Russia broke out of the post–Cold War system and openly challenged U.S. dominance. This move effectively ended a quarter century of cooperative relations among great powers and…
by Julia Ann
Iran elections 2016, Observers who portrayed the elections as a action amid ‘reformists’ and ‘hardliners’ accept angry themselves in knots – abnormally afterwards advertisement beforehand that about all reformists had been butterfingers by…
by Judy Dempsey
Dmitry Medvedev sure knows how to press the right buttons. Here was the Russian prime minister making his first appearance at the 2016 Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of top policymakers…
by David Ramin Jalilvand
In early January 2016, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalated. The execution of Saudi Shiite cleric Nimr Baqer al-Nimr sparked outrage among the Middle East's Shiite populations. In Iran, the…