Looking forward, there are plenty of reasons to be cautiously optimistic even if the talks between those parties fail to achieve anything of tangible significance in the short term. What’s most important is that the peacemaking process has finally begun due to Russia’s positive influence over Armenia. The geopolitics of the strategically located South Caucasus…
Vladimir Putin got straight to the point. At the opening of his one hour and fourteen minute video conversation with Xi Jinping on 15 December, he described Russia-China relations as “an example of genuine inter-state cooperation in the 21st century.” Their myriad levels of cooperation have been known for years now – from trade, oil…
It’s the case study which proves the concept being put forth, namely that the Kremlin can responsibly ‘balance’ very sensitive and complex affairs all across the Eurasian supercontinent. The wider the awareness becomes of that country’s success in this respect, the quicker that its grand strategic vision will unfold, which will in turn accelerate the…
The present analysis will review the highlights of his speech and subsequently interpret their strategic significance for the wider audience. It’ll then conclude with some general observations gleaned from the preceding insight. Russian President Vladimir Putin briefed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) last week during an expanded meeting with the Foreign Ministry Board that…
The present analysis will summarize his thoughts and then offer the author’s interpretation thereof as well as his own prediction. Summarizing Surkov Vladislav Surkov, the man who served under President Putin in one capacity or another from 1999-2020 and was referred to by observers at home and abroad as the Kremlin’s “grey cardinal”, published an…
The Heartland plus population plus production plus sea power: that’s the end of the “Columbian Age”. In 1904, the British geographer, Halford Mackinder, read a paper named “The Geographical Pivot of History” at the Royal Geographical Society. In the paper he advanced a hypothesis on the influence of geographic reality on world power relationships. This…
