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The Arctic: Structural Power, Strategic Geography, and the Real Balance of Military Forces in the High North

Europe, Infrastructure, Investment, Logistics & Transport, Russian Market, Security, Trade

For much of the post-Cold War period, the Arctic existed outside the main currents of global geopolitics. Covered by ice, distant from population centers, and governed by cooperative mechanisms, the High North was widely perceived as a region immune to confrontation. This assumption has gradually dissolved. Climate transformation, technological adaptation, and global power redistribution have […]

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Russia Discontinues UK’s Inmarsat Satellite Tracking For Fishing Vessels

Europe, Logistics & Transport, Russian Market, Security

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

Economy, Europe, Finance, Security, Trade

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

Europe, Regulatory, Legal & Tax, Russian Market, Security, Trade

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

BRICS, Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Economic Union, Europe, Russian Market, Security, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

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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When Will The Russian Economy Finally Collapse?

Economy, Europe, Finance, Russian Market, Security, Trade

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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When Will China Invade The Russian Far East?

China, Infrastructure, Investment, Russian Market, Security, Trade

A common online theme often raised by economic and development critics towards Russia is related to the increasing trade and investment between the two countries. China, as a one-party state, needs to keep its economy growing in the medium-long term to satisfy its huge population. Consequently, GDP growth levels are ideally maintained at rates of

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Russian Foreign Minister Speaks With Venezuelan Vice President As United States Snatches Legal Sovereignty Away From Caracas

Energy, Latin America, Russian Market, Security

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has held a phone call with Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, shortly after US President Donald Trump announced that following attacks on Venezuela, American special forces had captured and taken the nation’s leader, Nicolas Maduro, out of the country and forcibly taken him prisoner to the United States. “Lavrov

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Russia Takes 2026 Presidency Of The Collective Security Treaty Organisation

Central Asia, Russian Infrastructure, Security

Russia has assumed the presidency of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) from January 1st and will hold it under the motto “Collective Security in a Multipolar World: Common Goal, Shared Responsibility.” The CSTO is sometimes referred to as Central Asia’s equivalent to NATO and has been regarded as a threat by both the European

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Japan Refuses To Expropriate US$30 Billion Of Russian Assets

Asia, Finance, Regulatory, Legal & Tax, Security, Trade

Japan, which holds about US$30 billion of frozen Russian assets, has refused to seize the Russian assets it holds and send them to Ukraine, despite pressure from the European Union to do so. Japan holds cash reserves that had been previously used to help fund bilateral trade, worth an estimated US$30 billion. Japanese Finance Minister

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