Editorial paper at Robert Lansing Institute

Russia seeks to reinforce its position in Mozambique

Using private military companies and state-owned banks, the critical economic situation in the country and the destabilization in the north of the country caused by the rebellion of the Islamic…

November 26, 2019Mozambique, PMC, Russia

Drug trafficking Estimates

Afghan heroin trafficking and control

May 27, 1986, in the Dutch port of Rotterdam, the Soviet cargo ship Kapitan Tomson, coming from Soviet Baltic port of Riga, steered for its berth at the Unitcenter dock in the…

November 25, 2019Afghanistan, heroin, Russia, Taliban

Situation Reports

Space as a new NATO operational domain questions Article 5 using

On November 20, NATO Foreign Ministers take decisions to adapt NATO and agreed to recognize space as a new operational domain for NATO, alongside air, land, sea and cyber. “This…

November 25, 2019Article 5, NATO, space domain

Estimates

Russia is staking on the Hezbollah

Leader of the Lebanese Democratic Movement, Jacques Tamer, stated the need to significantly weaken the influence of the United States and Israel, that have deeply penetrated Lebanese politics with the…

November 22, 2019Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Russia, Syria, weaponizing

Situation Reports

The Bolivian President Anez unlikely to win the election if foreign pressure remains

The Second Bolivian right-wing Vice President of the Senate Jeanine Anez who replaced ex-President Evo Morales after his resignation will unlikely be the next head of the state. Such conclusions follow from the remaining…

November 21, 2019Bolivia, Cuba, Jeanine Anez, Venezuela

Situation Reports

Russian weapons saturate the Middle East illegal market threatening regional security

Russian arms are being sold on a black market in Syria and Iraq. Here are photos of AK-74M with a Pulsar Apex XQ38 and six magazines for sale in Idlib…

November 20, 2019AK-103, Iraq, Russia, Syria, weapon

Energy Situation Reports

Gazprom seeks full monopoly in Europe through pushing out U.S. LNG supplies and eliminating the Ukrainian transit route

Russia is trying to exert pressure on the EU to make the Ukraine government sign a short-term gas transit deal and abandon financial claims to Gazprom, the company which could…

November 19, 2019Germany, Nord Stream-2, Russia, USA

Economy Situation Reports

Russia Doubles Down on EAEU as a Geopolitical Instrument

The Russian Federation has stepped up its efforts to increase the influence of the EAEU in the countries catching the Kremlin’s geopolitical interest. In this case, the geo-economy is only…

November 19, 2019EAEU, economy, Russia, Serbia

Geopolitics Situation Reports

High Probability of Arab Spring-2 in MENA Region to Strengthen Russia’s Hand

The political crisis in some Arab world countries is highly probable to escalate into a new round of the Arab Spring today. Thus, destabilization of the MENA region will lead…

November 18, 2019Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan

Conflict

Russia creates A2/AD zone beyond Syrian borders

Russia has set up a new helicopter base at an airport in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli. The Russian Defence Ministry’s Zvezda TV channel showed the base was established by U.S…

November 16, 2019Russia, Syria

Posts by Editorial paper

Russia seeks to reinforce its position in Mozambique

Afghan heroin trafficking and control

Space as a new NATO operational domain questions Article 5 using

Russia is staking on the Hezbollah

The Bolivian President Anez unlikely to win the election if foreign pressure remains

Russian weapons saturate the Middle East illegal market threatening regional security

Gazprom seeks full monopoly in Europe through pushing out U.S. LNG supplies and eliminating the Ukrainian transit route

Russia Doubles Down on EAEU as a Geopolitical Instrument

High Probability of Arab Spring-2 in MENA Region to Strengthen Russia’s Hand

Russia creates A2/AD zone beyond Syrian borders

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