With the Caliphate collapsing and the ISIS leader now dead, where next for Russia’s jihadists asks Asya Metodieva
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Part six in the series ‘Russian Media: Moscow and Beyond Calling’: Russia’s information influence on Belarus
Leonid Isaev on how Turkey and Russia filled the vacuum after the withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria
Lyubov Glazunova on how Russia cultivates influence in Africa with a promise of nuclear power
In recent decades, writes Vladislav Inozemtsev, Russia’s economy, society, and geopolitical standing have become prisoners to China’s success — to a far greater extent than the authorities and ordinary citizens are prepared to recognise
The Steinmeier Formula is not a reason for optimism, nor for alarmism, writes Pavel Luzin
Tatyana Stanovaya on why the recent Russian-Ukrainian rapprochement has reverted to more hostility
Pavel Luzin considers why the Kremlin is undermining its own efforts for nuclear weapons control, and what this mean for the START treaty.
Yuri Tsarik on the Kremlin’s strategy for “deepening integration” with Belarus
Anton Barbashin digests the reaction of Russian experts to the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, taking stock of Macron’s talk of better ties with Russia as a thinly veiled means to forestall a rising China
Anton Mardasov on what is happening with the territories that returned under the control of the Assad regime, but where a fairly high level of anti-government sentiment has been preserved
Ruslan Moldovanov on the LDPR leader’s recent meeting with foreign nationalists in Moscow in the context of Russian cooperation with far-right politicians in Europe