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Russia’s relationships with Europe vary from warm, with trade partners such as Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia, to the frigid (most of the European Union and the UK). In between are lesser discussed regions in the Balkans with closer historical ties to Moscow than to Brussels. We examine some of these borderline areas and provide analysis and updates where appropriate along the Russia-European axis.

Serbia
Featured January 20, 2026

US Court Approval Required To Restructure Gazprom’s Equity Stake In Hungary and Serbia Oil Sector

Further proof of European acquiescence to the United States has shown itself in that European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyers now need to gain accreditation in the United States to handle some cross-border M&A deals in the European Union itself. The convoluted arrangement has manifested itself through a complex agreement concerning Russia’s Gazprom and Hungary’s […]

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Inmarsat
Featured January 20, 2026

Russia Discontinues UK’s Inmarsat Satellite Tracking For Fishing Vessels

Russia’s fishing industry has discontinued the use of the UK’s Inmarsat satellite terminals to track its fishing vessels. Instead, it has switched to using exclusively Russian orbital constellations (Gonets, Yamal and Express) since January 1 to transmit vessel location data to the industry monitoring system (IMS), the Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) has stated. The move […]

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Poker
January 18, 2026

How The United States Played Poker With Europe – And Trumped Brussels

The new threats by US President Donald Trump to place an additional 25% tariffs on European exports entering US markets emphasize just how naïve European politicians have been when it comes to international diplomacy and foreign affairs. In threatening such measures should the EU (and specifically Denmark) do not agree to cede Greenland to the […]

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Norway
January 16, 2026

Norway Accounts For 50% Of Russian Wheat Gluten Exports As Russia Proves Far More Competitive Than European Suppliers

Norway imported over US$11 million of wheat gluten from Russia in 2025, making up almost half of Russia’s overseas sales, the Agroexport federal center has said. Norway was followed by Turkiye, which imported over US$3.5 million from Russia, and Saudi Arabia with over US$2.4 million. Russia increased its revenues from wheat gluten exports 2.6-fold to […]

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Yalta
January 14, 2026

When Will the Russia–Ukraine War End? History Points To A Yalta 2.0

The former Pentagon officer David Pyne has stated that there are clear indications that US President Donald Trump remains committed to mediating a peace deal with Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine, but the challenge lies with his hawkish senior cabinet advisers. Pyne has said that “They keep telling him that no peace deal […]

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China
January 14, 2026

Landmark Reached As China Now Imports More Russian Gas Than Europe

A landmark of sorts has been reached as Russia’s Gazprom supplied 38.8 billion cubic meters of gas to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline in 2025. That is 24.8% higher than the 2024 figure and means that the company exported more pipeline gas to China than to European countries—including Turkiye. While the UK and […]

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Greenland
January 13, 2026

Russia’s Designs On Greenland

The future of Greenland has again been placed on the front page news following the success of the United States operation in kidnapping the Venezuelan President, Nicholas Maduro, and forcibly repatriating him to the United States. That brazen operation has a sequel – renewed calls for Greenland to be taken over by the United States […]

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Main Image
January 13, 2026

When Geography Returns To Politics: Atlantic-Centric Global Governance versus Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Analysis

With Washington openly declaring it will seize Greenland “easy or hard,” invoking Russian and Chinese threats to justify what is plainly a territorial grab, Copenhagen responds with cold clarity: Danish forces are ordered to fire first if U.S. troops attempt invasion, signaling that NATO is no shield for American overreach. Greenland’s leaders, backed by Brussels, […]

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Collapse
January 10, 2026

When Will The Russian Economy Finally Collapse?

Predictions of the collapse of the Russian economy have been ongoing now for over a decade, with statements continuing to be made that this event is shortly to occur. Why do these statements continue to be repeated, and what is driving such beliefs?  When sanctions were originally imposed upon Russia back in 2014 – a […]

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