Anton Barbashin on dissecting Trump’s role, Putin’s demands, and Kyiv’s dwindling options in a shifting geopolitical landscape
Anton Barbashin on Russia's possible response to Biden’s green light for Ukraine to fire US long-range missiles deep into Russia
Anton Barbashin on why Moscow should not rejoice at Donald Trump's presidential election
Anton Barbashin on how Russian experts and public commentators assessed the latest BRICS summit in Russia
Anton Barbashin on how Russia's symbolic victories on the international stage conceal growing uncertainties in its cooperation with key partners
Anton Barbashin on how Moscow is again trying to come up with new and nebulous euphemisms to justify imperial control
Anton Barbashin delves into how Russia’s ambitions for Africa far outpace its capacity for concrete cooperation
Anton Barbashin sifts through some of the vague and conflicting expert interpretations of Xi Jinping’s wartime trip to Russia
Anton Barbashin on how the 21st of February marks another crossed rubicon of Russian history
Anton Barbashin argues that Russia’s top foreign policy thinkers are split between moderate attitudes of ‘quit while you’re ahead' and hawkish views calling for further brinkmanship
Anton Barbashin looks at what the Putin-Biden e-meeting has achieved for Ukraine, Russia and NATO
Anton Barbashin looks into what’s motivating Russian military activity along the Ukrainian border
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 Barbashin reviews Sergei Karaganov’s latest piece on the recent spate of protests in Moscow
Russian foreign policy 5 years since Crimea
Donald Trump’s words and actions show scant commitment to the ideas that bind the West. The American President is instead embracing a distinctly Russian lexicon and world view: That of an amoral, multipolar world defined by raw strength.
By approving of Ivan Ilyin’s philosophy, the Russian state is effectively sugar coating a holder of bitterly fascist views
The disintegration of the empire still goes on
For Russian foreign policy strategists, the economy is neither so important, nor comprehensible