CONFLIT RUSSO-UKRAINIEN

Given its escalating confrontation with the West, Russia will become increasingly integrated into China’s tech orbit.

The European Union should be in no hurry either to engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime or to force a diplomatic crisis. Rather than vacillating between resets and crackdowns, the EU should pursue a strategy of “principled indifference.”

As the effects of climate change grow more intense each year, attention is shifting to the inevitable geopolitical impacts of a warming planet. In 2020, Russia experienced its warmest winter on record, while the summer saw forest fires rip through Siberia like never before. At the same time, a warming Arctic has opened up previously inaccessible shipping lanes, providing Russia with new economic opportunities. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a long Arctic game, and winning. Forget Stalin’s 5-year plans, Putin’s century-long plan is to turn Russia’s wild east — once impossible to farm — into a food basket for China, a replacement American Midwest.

L'implication de Moscou auprès des différents acteurs du conflit libyen témoigne de la volonté de la Russie de renforcer sa présence politique et militaire sur le continent africain. Le Courrier de Russie s’est entretenu avec Enguine Ozer, directeur du cercle de réflexion politique La Voix de l’Afrique, sur les perspectives des relations russo-africaines.

Ukraine will prioritize the Asia-Pacific in its foreign policy.

La candidature de l’Ukraine à l’intégration européenne est toujours d’actualité et le pays pourrait demander l’adhésion en 2023, estime l’ancien ambassadeur d’Ukraine auprès de l’UE, Kostiantyn Yelisieiev. En revanche, le rapprochement entre Kiev et l’OTAN ne progresse guère.

Russia’s invitation for India to link up with Eurasian Economic Union recalls the SCO expansion saga.

L’UE n’a adopté lundi que des sanctions symboliques contre plusieurs dignitaires du régime russe après l’arrestation de Navalny. L’arrivée de Joe Biden à la Maison Blanche pourrait inciter les Vingt-Sept à davantage de fermeté.

On paper, Japan and Russia have complementary economies. Inreality, trade and investment ties have been hard to forge.

As the effects of climate change grow more intense each year, attention is shifting to the inevitable geopolitical impacts of a warming planet. In 2020, Russia experienced its warmest winter on record, while the summer saw forest fires rip through Siberia like never before. At the same time, a warming Arctic has opened up previously inaccessible shipping lanes, providing Russia with new economic opportunities.

Il n’échappe à personne que, depuis un peu plus d’une décennie, la Russie fait un retour marqué sur la scène internationale en devenant le premier exportateur mondial de blé. Analyse de Sébastien Abis, directeur du club Demeter et chercheur associé à l’Iris

Russia’s relations with the West are at their lowest point in two decades. Similar patterns of warming and cooling have taken place intermittently ever since Russia emerged as a major Eurasian power in the early 18th century. Each crisis with the West alternated with rapprochement and at times full military and security cooperation.

In separate early April discussions with South African and Ethiopian leaders, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledges Russia’s support in collaborating with Africa fight coronavirus that is currently spreading among the population across the continent.

Putin’s apparent victories in spreading Russian influence are mirages, some of which have come at a great cost.

Un président Poutine président depuis 20 ans et familier du pape ? Revoyons l’histoire : en 1945 l’U.R.S.S se présentait comme la deuxième puissance mondiale après avoir écrasé l’Allemagne. 

Janusz Bugajski explores how the Kremlin is competing for control in the Balkans through influence, alliances, corruption, and conflict.