Russia's shooting down of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) flight from Baku to Grozny on Christmas Day has cast a shadow over the pragmatic partnership that had developed between Baku and Moscow since...
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Recently, we published a report analysing the Russian narratives in six Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries over the course of a decade. In the case of Ukraine, the full-scale invasion seemed to have...
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While the risk of damage, deliberate or accidental, to energy and communications infrastructure under the Baltic Sea cannot be entirely eliminated, naval cooperation among the democratic states that...
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The Kremlin views Trump’s election victory as an opportunity that it believes should be approached with a combination of wariness and toughness. It wasted little time on plaudits. Two days after...
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The French government led by now former Prime Minister Michel Barnier collapsed on 4 December amidst the 2025 budget deliberations, opening the door to a certain degree of political instability in...
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The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku was a wasted opportunity, concluding with an insufficient, unjust, and seemingly imposed deal at a time when climate crises are...
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After months of efforts to persuade US President Biden to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of the ATACMS short-range ballistic missiles against targets in Russia, the best argument was eventually...
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Germans will long remember 6 November 2024. In the early morning, Donald Trump was elected to become the 47th president of the United States. And in the late evening, Germany lost its first...
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In any election year, certain topics carry more weight in the minds of the American people and allies across the globe. Until June, it seemed that both major parties’ presidential candidates would...
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The sharpening tensions in Georgia, sparked by last Saturday’s contested parliamentary election, are reminiscent of many previous mass protests in Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, the case of Georgia...
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