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After the Vote: What Russia’s 2026 State Duma Election Changed—and What It Did Not
Verses Against Tyranny: Faiz, Habib Jalib, and the Poetic Architecture of Protest and Peace
The 77th National Day of the People’s Republic of China and Beijing’s Developmental Trajectory Through 2026
The Forgotten Battlefield of 9/11: How the War on Terror Reshaped Central Asia
Iran and Turkmenistan: From Stable Neighborliness to Geoeconomic Partnership
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After the Vote: What Russia’s 2026 State Duma Election Changed—and What It Did Not
Russia’s 2026 State Duma election delivered an expected victory with consequences that were less predictable. Higher turnout, a record United Russia majority and substantial parliamentary renewal reveal how the Russian political system is adapting—and consolidating—under wartime pressure.
Iran and Turkmenistan: From Stable Neighborliness to Geoeconomic Partnership
On the Occasion of Turkmenistan’s National Day
Georgia and the Mackinder Trap: Geographical Significance and the Limits of Strategic Autonomy
Economic growth figures do not indicate how resilient Georgia’s economy would prove in the face of a widespread disruption in trade, external financing, or national security.
From the “Clandestine Network” to Allegations of a “Soviet Coup”: A Documented Critique of Ben Macintyre’s Narrative on Kuzichkin and the Tudeh Party
This critique seeks neither to deny the structural ties between the Tudeh Party, the Soviet Union, and the KGB, nor to dispute the existence of the party's clandestine apparatus and military wing, Vladimir Kuzichkin’s defection, or the 1982–1983 state crackdown on the Tudeh Party.
Armenian Foreign Policy Thirty-Five Years After Independence: Russia, the West, and Iran’s Place in Yerevan’s Emerging Strategy
The contemporary recalibration of Armenian foreign policy reflects an incremental departure from Russia-centric complementarism toward a model of bounded strategic hedging. Rather than seeking an outright substitution of Russia with the West, this policy aims to broaden Yerevan’s external options, diminish security dependence on a single patron, and enhance the state's diplomatic maneuverability within an increasingly volatile and multipolar regional environment.
India and the New BRICS Architecture in 2026: Multi-Alignment Diplomacy, Sustainable Development, and Iran’s Strategic Opportunities
A Field-Based Analytical Account from Dual Strategic and Environmental Perspectives
The 18th BRICS Summit: China’s Objectives and Opportunities Ahead for Iran
BRICS expansion represents both an opportunity and a challenge for China: while an enlarged membership enhances the bloc’s representative legitimacy, it simultaneously complicates consensus-building and agenda steering.
The Iran War and the New Power of Diplomatic Access
The Iran war shows why the ability to preserve and activate diplomatic relationships is becoming a strategic asset in an increasingly current turbulent world.
The Leipzig/Halle Drone Crisis and the Entry of German–Russian Relations into a New Phase
The official attribution of the Leipzig/Halle drone attack to Russia, however, did not merely intensify tensions between Berlin and Moscow; it rapidly acquired a European dimension
The 77th National Day of the People’s Republic of China and Beijing’s Developmental Trajectory Through 2026
