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.
The Moscow Arbitration Court has granted the application of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) to consider the regulator’s lawsuit against the Belgian depository Euroclear for €200 billion in a closed court session. The decision was confirmed on Friday (January 16). A statement issued by the bank read, “The Central Bank of Russia requests to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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, […]
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 […]
U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed his threat of imposing punitive tariffs of up to 500% on countries such as India, China, and Brazil that continue to import Russian crude oil. While the announcement has generated immediate political noise, it has thus far resulted in limited economic shockwaves. Trump’s decision to “greenlight” legislation threatening 500% […]
Russia’s Pivot To Asia now enters its third full year of operations and has over the past months and years developed into a primary source of non-partisan, data-based commentary about what we see as the largest geopolitical shift in Eurasia for 800 years – Russia’s Pivot to Asia and the Global South. A question often […]
Murmansk has received the status of a ‘Strategic Transport Hub’ and is eligible for more state-level funding and development. The move, prioritized by Russian President Vladimir Putin comes as Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, advised that the Baltic Sea could turn into an inland sea for NATO as Finland and Sweden […]
The unprovoked United States attacks on Venezuela – in which 40 Venezuelans are estimated to have died in the kidnapping and removal to the United States of the Venezuelan president—have been followed through with what appears could now be a civil war breaking out in the country. Meanwhile, US President Trump has issued ‘warnings’ to […]
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