Dmitry Trenin, A Top Russian Expert Issues A Clarion Call For Correcting Foreign Policy Misperceptions By Andrew Korybko It’s exceedingly rare for a Russian expert to constructively critique their country’s foreign policy. Top Russian expert Dmitry Trenin was just elected President of the Russian… Read More ›
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The Moment Of Truth Is Arriving In Russian-Armenian Relations
The Moment Of Truth Is Arriving In Russian-Armenian Relations By Andrew Korybko Russia tacitly acknowledges that June’s parliamentary elections represent a “Battle for Armenia” just like Hungary’s own later this month represent a “Battle for Hungary”. Putin recently hosted Armenian Prime… Read More ›
Why The South Caucasus Is No Safe Corridor To Bypass Russia
Under Iran War’s Shadow: Why The South Caucasus Is No Safe Corridor To Bypass Russia By Uriel Araujo Europe’s push to turn the South Caucasus into a strategic corridor gains urgency amid tensions with Iran and Europe’s attempt to bypass Russia…. Read More ›
Why Donbass’ Final Status Remains The Last Hurdle In The Peace Plan
Why Donbass’ Final Status Remains The Last Hurdle In The Peace Plan By Andrew Korybko Provided that Zelensky and Ukrainskaya Pravda right before him are telling the truth, then it looks like the most meaningful elements of a Russian-Ukrainian peace deal… Read More ›
Azerbaijan’s “Multi-Vector Alignment” Poses A Serious Challenge To Russia
Azerbaijan’s “Multi-Vector Alignment” Poses A Serious Challenge To Russia By Andrew Korybko The “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” is poised to become a military-logistics corridor for expanding NATO influence along Russia’s southern periphery and could thus force Putin into… Read More ›
Here’s How Karabakh Became The Catalyst Of Russia’s Southern Peripheral Setbacks
Here’s How Karabakh Became The Catalyst Of Russia’s Southern Peripheral Setbacks By Andrew Korybko The previously unresolved Karabakh Conflict might in retrospect be seen as a several-decades-delayed grand strategic game-changer that revolutionized regional geopolitics. Vance’s recent trip to the South Caucasus, which… Read More ›
Kazakhstan’s President Is Bending Over Backwards To Appease Trump – Here’s Why It Matters
Kazakhstan’s President Is Bending Over Backwards To Appease Trump – Here’s Why It Matters By Andrew Korybko He’s doing a series of favours for Trump so that he’d have his back if trouble ever arises with Russia, which is an increasingly… Read More ›
Aliyev At Munich: Azerbaijan’s Emerging Place In The New Eurasian Geopolitics
Aliyev At Munich: Azerbaijan’s Emerging Place In The New Eurasian Geopolitics By Andrew Korybko Azerbaijan’s pivotal role in TRIPP, which is the new means through which the US aims to encircle Russia along its entire southern periphery, is why it’s important… Read More ›
How The US-Azerbaijan Partnership Threatens Russia’s Southern Flank
How The US-Azerbaijan Partnership Threatens Russia’s Southern Flank By Andrew Korybko On the pretext of securing critical mineral and energy supply chains from Central Asia via the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity”, Azerbaijan is poised to become the launchpad… Read More ›
Armenia’s Western Turn And the Domestic Upheaval It Could Trigger
Armenia’s Western Turn And the Domestic Upheaval It Could Trigger By Andrew Korybko Armenia might have to accept the return of the ~200,000 Azeris who fled during the chaotic Soviet collapse (and the descendants), grant them equal language rights, teach in… Read More ›