Russian-Chinese Crisis Alliance in the Balkans
Yulia Petrovskaya on how Moscow and Beijing confront the “collective West” in BiH and Kosovo
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A United NATO stance on the China-Russia challenge?
Natasha Kuhrt and Marcin Kaczmarski on NATO’s positioning towards Moscow and Beijing
Checking the thermometers
Lyubov Glazunova on whether the battle against global warming can bring Russia and the West closer together
Russia’s Myanmar Gambit
Ivan U. Klyszcz takes stock of Russia’s reactions to the Myanmar coup and what the ongoing crisis has brought to its Southeast Asia diplomacy
Belgrade’s vaccine bet on China
Yulia Petrovskaya on how Russia is losing the battle to vaccinate Serbia to China
Political and corporate complexity on the Northern Sea Route
Pavel Luzin looks at the growing importance of Russia’s Northern Sea Route, which is fraught with political and corporate entanglements.
Russia and India: a fraught partnership
Lyubov Glazunova wonders whether Russia-India relations can withstand opposing views on China, the US, and Pakistan
In search of new partners in space
Pavel Luzin on whether Russia can rely on China and India in the field of space exploration
How China Helped Russia Weather COVID and Why It’s Not Necessarily Good News
Nicholas Trickett on how COVID-19 has been rewriting economic orthodoxy across the globe, but Russia’s Austrian School economists have yet to get the memo
Keeping track of Russia’s Railways
Pavel Luzin explains how keeping track of Russia’s railway plans can deliver insights into the country’s political mechanics
Techno-Economic Blocs in Eurasia
The coronavirus pandemic, along with geopolitical trends, is consolidating ‘techno-economic’ blocs in Eurasia writes Emil Avdaliani
Russia’s Far East in the shadow of the Asian pivot
Sebastian Hoppe on why there remains much to be done to make the Russian Far East benefit from pivoting to Asia