Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Azerbaijan’s recapture of Nagorno-Karabakh have triggered significant geopolitical shifts and resulted in varied manifestations of Russian influence across the...
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For years, Moscow has tried to pressure the west to recognise its status as a great power and accept its vision of rearrangement of world order. To force the international community to respect its...
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In December 2024, Major Robert ‘Madyar’ Brovdi, a key figure in Ukraine’s drone warfare development, announced that his strike drone regiment would become a separate uncrewed systems brigade...
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Today, on the eve of the presidential inauguration in the US, Japan’s current Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a new Trump administration, and, in a more volatile regional and global...
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After almost sixty years, the continuation of transit of Russian natural gas across Ukraine to the European Union is no longer guaranteed. Russian gas first flowed through Ukraine and on into...
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Over two years into Russia’s war against Ukraine, the People’s Liberation Army announced a structural change: the Strategic Support Force (SSF) was disbanded, and the new Information Support...
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Russia has historically been a ‘railway empire’ that relies heavily on its railways to bind together vast lands of the biggest country in the world. The rail lines are the essential logistics...
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The paper focuses on narratives of contested democracy by third-country actors — notably Russia and China — in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. It identifies four dominant narratives across the...
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As Norway and Russia remain the two nations with a stable and permanent presence on Svalbard, a great geopolitical game between the two Arctic states may unfold over the archipelago. Amidst climate...
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Elements of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) spent much of November 2024 in Latvia, taking part in a series of exercises known as Joint Protector 24. Leaders of the JEF countries—Denmark,...
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