Russia is carefully balancing its Middle East relationships and avoiding confrontation with the US, calculating that a prolonged crisis could benefit Moscow by diverting Western focus from Ukraine and boosting oil revenues
After four years of war, Russia has hardened into a more personalist and repressive system, adjusted its economy to prolonged confrontation, and signalled readiness for a sustained standoff with the West
The key rate cut comes amid stagnation in the civilian economy and mounting fiscal risks from a stronger rouble and weaker oil revenues
Production, exports and revenues are declining; sanctions mostly changed how Russia sells, not how much it sells
Russian discourse on MSC 2026 casts the conference as a symbol of Europe’s strategic fragility and highlights evolving Kremlin narratives about the balance of power within the West
Examining the Trump Road initiative in the South Caucasus: infrastructure, sovereignty, great-power mediation, and the limits of externally driven peace
Ahead of the Geneva talks, Russia maintains its position and continues infrastructure strikes, suggesting that negotiations will remain stalled unless battlefield dynamics or external pressure significantly alter the parties’ calculations
For Russia, the implications of a U.S.-China rapprochement — even if based on convenience rather than conviction — are profound.
Despite talk of strategic partnership, mistrust defines Iran–Russia ties, with support limited and shaped by doubt, history, and regional crises
The main risk for the West is Russia’s growing structural dependence on China, not the formation of a formal alliance
How the Russian media portrays China's leader – between strategic necessity and subordinate reality
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