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Takes Two to Tango: Putin and Assad’s Dangerous Alliance

07/09/2015 Russia

by Erielle Delzer Following Russia’s rotation into the monthly presidency position at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on September 1st, where Russia’s main stated goal is to counter international terrorism, President Vladimir Putin has announced that…

Aggregating Western interests for the Nord Stream 2- a successful tactic?

17/08/2015 Russia

Madalina Sisu Vicari

photo source: gazprom by Madalina Sisu Vicari The announcement made on August 12 by Rainer Seele, the new CEO of Austria’s oil and gas group OMV, that his company would cooperate with Gazprom on the Nord…

Picturing the Evil – Europe’s unwanted Misconception of Russia

30/07/2015 Russia

Vocal Europe

photo source: telegraph by O. Krumme-Garcia Last Sunday, Russia celebrated its National Navy Day and President Vladimir Putin attended the fleet show in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia’s exclave at the Baltic Sea, surrounded by the EU and…

Russia, Iran and the Gas Stake: Friends or Foes?

25/07/2015 Iran, Russia

Madalina Sisu Vicari

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Madalina Sisu Vicari & Azime Telli ( PhD, Lecturer at Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey) Iran's agreement with P+5 (the five…

The eastwards shift: Russia’s energy cooperation with China

13/07/2015 Russia

Madalina Sisu Vicari

photo source: thebricspost by Madalina Sisu Vicari The need for an increased presence in Asia’s energy markets The gas agreement between Russia and China concluded in 2014, has been given a new impetus to Russia-China energy cooperation and stirred…

EU’s Energy Diplomacy 2.0.

12/06/2015 Business

Madalina Sisu Vicari

(Photo taken from offshoreenergytoday.com) by Madalina Sisu Vicari In the last years, building the external dimension of EU’s energy policy has been one of the Union’s important and manifested aims. The issue was designated by the European Commission…

Is Ukraine a failed Nation-State?

10/06/2015 Society

Brad Cabana

(Photo taken from america.aljazeera.com) by Brad Cabana Perhaps the better question is: Is Ukraine a nation-state? It has certainly grown since its inception as a tiny trading post in 1654, but, and this is key, as…

Putin’s Euro-Asian Union between the EU and China

13/05/2015 Russia

Madalina Sisu Vicari

(Photo taken from yahoo.com) by Madalina Sisu Vicari The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) stemmed from a series of initiatives which aimed at integrate the countries of the former Soviet Union into a regional regime while maintaining Russia’s…

Europe: in desperate need for the Eastern Shield?

29/04/2015 Beyond Europe

Vocal Europe

(Photo taken from debatingeurope.eu) by Roman Rukomeda The European and global security has failed after Russia has started the hybrid and then open war against Ukraine in 2014. Now Europe is living in new security reality…

Russia: short of breath for Turkish Stream?

26/04/2015 Russia

Vocal Europe

(Photo taken from timesofisrael.com) by Piotr Stepinski & Wojciech Jakóbik (BiznesAlert.pl Editor in Chief. Energy analyst at Jagiellonian Institute) In December 2014 Russia cancelled South Stream pipeline project. It was to run through Black Sea to Bulgaria. Its…

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