
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