Editorial paper at Robert Lansing Institute

Mobilization in Russia to speed up the fall of regime and create extreme tension within the country

Partial mobilization announced in Russia means Putin has acknowledged the failure to complete the tasks of the military invasion of Ukraine. Putin ordered a call-up of reservists in Russia, on…

September 23, 2022Russia, Ukraine

Conflict Geopolitics

CSTO turns incapable, Russia loses leadership in the post-Soviet space

The Collective Security Treaty Organization’s (CSTO) refusal to send ‘peacekeepers’ to Armenia against the background of the conflict escalation with Azerbaijan will inevitably lead to the organization collapse. Russia's military invasion of…

September 19, 2022Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Russia, Turkey, Türkiye

Intelligence ops Propaganda and Disinformation Psyops

Russia prepares for fake news campaign involving AfG

Amid the debacle of Russia-led intervention in Ukraine and destabilisation in Russia, the Kremlin has urged its spies in Western Europe to carry out information and psychological ops seeking to cover up new war crimes committed by the Russians in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, to…

September 16, 2022AfD, Germany, Russia

Intelligence ops

Kneissl case to show how deeply Russian intelligence penetrated EU

Austria proves its image of Russia's spy nest, among other insecurities for the EU, as Russian intelligence seeks to penetrate EU government and some international bodies. That penetration may be…

September 14, 2022Austria, GRU, Kneissl, Russia

Intelligence ops

Involvement with compatriots as a tool for Russian intelligence and subversion abroad

Russia is promoting policies that allow justifying military invasion of countries that are of pivotal interest to the Kremlin. Using them, Russia gets the opportunity to skip separatism stir-up and…

September 9, 2022Russia

Geopolitics Intelligence ops

Russia’s ongoing infiltration into the OSCE as an attempt to oppose Polish chairmanship’s initiatives

Russia regularly does its best to oppose Warsaw's anti-Kremlin initiatives within the framework of Poland’s OSCE chairmanship and tries to win the support of its allies inside the organization. September,…

September 6, 2022OSCE, Russia, Shchienko

Governance ideology

Ideological basis of Kremlin’s policy in confronting the West

The Kremlin's response to the car explosion of Russian neo-Nazi Alexander Dugin’s daughter has turned the spotlight on to the ideological values cultivated in Russia over the last decade. Collapse…

September 5, 2022Nazi, Russia

Democracy Governance

Beja community authority in Sudan splits and threatens to gain an authonomy

The drift of Khartoum junta regime away from democracy stimulates minorities in the East of Sudan to fight for self-determination. Disputes within the High Council of Beja Nazirs and Independent…

September 1, 2022Eritrea, Sudan

Intelligence ops National Security

The Iron Curtain reborn as the only way to stop expanding Russian aggression

In June 2021, the RLI emphasized the need to partially return the deterrents used for Moscow in Soviet times: the Iron Curtain, as a way to restrict Russians’ entry into…

August 31, 2022Russia

Democracy Geopolitics

China tries to oust US out of the Oceania region since it cuts Washington’s ties with island states

The US Coast Guard vessel incident in the Solomon Islands clearly proves Honiara’s slow transition under control of China. Despite the island authorities’ denial of their plan to allow stationing Chinese military…

August 30, 2022China, Solomon Islands, USA

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