#post-soviet space

Bombast in the Black Sea: the Latest British Provocation

Melvin Goodman Balck Sea AP News Post-World War II British foreign policy has included a number of provocative steps that have weakened British standing; created complications in the international arena; and raised the possibility of serious confrontation.  In the 1950s, the British were the ringleaders in the last gasp of European colonialism: a British-French-Israeli conspiracy to topple…

Press review: WHO opposes COVID booster shots and where is the ruble headed

Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, July 14th Nurse Paola Almiron gives shots of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine inside a gym on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, July 9, 2021, as authorities speed up vaccinations after a slow start. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano) Izvestia: Lukashenko meets with Putin amid tensions with EU Belarus remains a reliable partner for…

Belarus’ multi-vector policy shouldn’t imperil agreements with Russia – State Secretary

The situation which Belarus is in now requires more support from Russia, Dmitry Mezentsev said MINSK, BELARUS – SEPTEMBER 1, 2020: Russian Ambassador to Belarus Dmitry Mezentsev congratulates students and professors of the Minsk Branch of the Russian State Social University on Knowledge Day. Sergei Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, July 14. /TASS/. Belarus’ multi-vector policy should not call into question…

The Eurasian Economic Union: Power, Politics and Trade

Since its creation in 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) has kept only a few of its promises. Its limited economic success cannot mask the many tensions between Russia and its neighbours. Much of the EEU’s future success will depend on its members’ will to shift away from geopolitics a​nd focus on international cooperation, governance, social welfare and migration. The Eurasian Economic…

Moldova to see serious pro-Western tilt in foreign policy after polls — Russian lawmaker

Konstantin Kosachev recalled that the Action and Solidarity Party saw it as its priority to intensify the process of integration into the EU, to strengthen the strategic partnership with the US and Romania, and to implement projects with Ukraine and Georgia Maia Sandu, opposition candidate and former Prime Minister, walks to cast her ballot at a polling station during the second round of a…

Pandemic prompting Russia to reaction, isolation, and decay, Shevtsova says

Because of the pandemic, 2020 was “’the year of the Apocalypse” for both Russia and the West, but the two responded in opposite ways: the West sought to address the underlying problems the coronavirus revealed, Lilia Shevtsova says. Russia instead sought to return to the past. Lilia Shevtsova Given the interrelationship between Russia and the West, one especially fraught since 1991, the Russian…