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Almost everywhere in the former Soviet Union, fireworks have sounded to mark the 35th anniversary of independence for countries that were part of a single union state until the end of 1991. It must be said that, with one tragic exception, all of them have entered their first relatively respectable period of sovereignty in much better shape than might have been expected. In gener...

The EU's new Arctic Strategy uses rhetoric to rally member states around a shared message, while continuing its course towards the securitisation of absolutely everything to achieve these ends. The reputational costs of shifting from civilian activity to the build-up of military-political capabilities in the Arctic, as well as the cost of this transformation, will lead to a cont...

Yemen’s conflict has entered a new phase of escalation, one that has spilled far beyond the confines of internal confrontation. In the second of his articles on the conflict, Sergey Serebrov shows that the escalation is no spontaneous flare-up. It obeys the logic of managed chaos, in which Yemen remains a bargaining chip and its people are held hostage to the geopolitical calcul...

The most important task of humanity’s functioning is reproducing itself for the sake of development and evolution. But what if the development of people has come into collision with their reproduction, creating the risk of humanity losing the key elements of control over the world’s affairs? The question is pondered by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation ...

The internal pluralism of BRICS or other non-Western platforms, inevitable given the kinds of states that form these associations, is the best possible condition for them to be able to fill the vacuum of ideas that arises in connection with the West’s inevitable retreat in this regard, Timofei Bordachev writes.