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Executive Summary: Novatek—the largest independent producer of natural gas in Russia—illustrates how large Russian businesses have had to show political and material support for the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine to maintain operations in Russia, as well as the international costs of aligning with…
Executive Summary U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent visit to Uzbekistan marked Washington’s most concrete push yet to compete with Beijing in Central Asia, especially on critical minerals and connectivity.
This article reconstructs daily life in Ukraine’s occupied territories from three interviews recorded by The Reckoning Project—a global team of journalists and lawyers documenting, publicizing, and helping build cases of atrocity crimes—with members of one family from Enerhodar, a city in…
This article is based on six interviews: two with senior representatives from Ukrainian non-governmental organizations that assist with evacuations from Russian-occupied territories, whose work involves direct contact with and support for evacuees; one with a senior representative of a humanitarian…
Executive Summary: The 2026 Global Governance Forum was carefully stage-managed by the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs—part of the united front system—to present an image of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a benevolent provider of techno-utopian solutions for the rest of the…
Executive Summary: The death of Mikhail Mavashi, 41, the rap star behind the Northern Man group, in a reported automobile accident, reduces the chances that his extreme Russian nationalist group will threaten Russia with widespread violence by attracting veterans to their banner.
Beijing wants a Washington that competes less, within limits that Beijing defines, for long enough that the balance keeps shifting its way. General Secretary Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump during their September 2026 summit reinforced a diplomatic framework of “constructive strategic…
The eighth Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan—a Russian-led diplomatic forum on Afghanistan in Moscow bringing together the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taliban, Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan, with Belarus and Egypt participating as…
On October 13, Georgia’s Constitutional Court took up Georgian Dream’s lawsuit to outlaw five opposition parties. Hearings opened in Batumi on October 21, with a ruling due by June 24, 2027. Georgian society is fractured along geopolitical, ideological, and generational lines, which the government…
All member states of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) adopted the Baku Declaration at the organization’s seventh summit on October 15, establishing a shared framework for regional cooperation on peace, security, stability, and development. The summit…
