Five Ways Pashinyan Undermined Russia’s Position In The South Caucasus By Andrew Korybko Pashinyan is by far the most anti-Russian leader to emerge from the former Soviet Union behind Zelensky and Saakashvili. Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu recently confirmed that… Read More ›
Why Is The Russian Foreign Ministry Downplaying The Likelihood Of TRIPP’s Implementation? By Andrew Korybko With all respect to Kalugin and the institution that he represents, nobody is perfect and expectations can sometimes be mistaken, such as was recently the case… Read More ›
The Russian Triad Is Now On The Same Page Regarding Southern-Emanating Threats From NATO By Andrew Korybko Representatives from the Presidential Administration, Ministry of Defence, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs have recently addressed these threats, which risk spiralling into a three-front… Read More ›
Armenia’s Ultimatum Over Russian Gas Prices Amounts To A National Suicide Threat By Andrew Korybko Leaving the CSTO and the EAEU before membership in NATO and the EU is assured would amount to national suicide since it could embolden Azerbaijan and/or… Read More ›
The West Is Encircling Russia In The South Caucasus And Central Asia By Andrew Korybko Timofei Bordachev insists that “a new Great Game is not in sight”, mostly because the West supposedly has no such intentions to compete with Russia along… Read More ›
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 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 ›
TRIPP Alone Should Change Russia’s Southern “Near Abroad” Strategy By Andrew Korybko He’s one of Russia’s top experts, yet his latest Valdai report on this subject didn’t even make passive mention of Trump 2.0’s flagship megaproject that’s expected to expand Western… Read More ›
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 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 ›
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