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Is Lukashenko starting a new migrant crisis?

The tension on the border between Poland and Belarus is growing. Bigger and bigger crowds of refugees are sent towards the eastern gates of the European Union. At this point…

November 10, 2021Belarus, Poland, Russia

- Geopolitics National Security

Challenges of Great Power Competition

After about 16 years of preoccupation with counter-terrorism, the United States officially declared in its National Security Strategy of 2017 that it is reorienting its focus on great power competition…

November 1, 2021China, Russia, USA

Geopolitics Intelligence ops

Russian Monarch’s Family to address intelligence needs

Russian intelligence is exploring how to use the monarchy's potential in Russia to further its interests abroad. Putin's entourage is seeking to set up alternative interaction channels with the West via…

October 21, 2021Russia

Intelligence ops

Russian intelligence focus in Bulgaria

In pursuing their intelligence efforts in Bulgaria, Russian spy agencies rely on HUMINT, using assets recruited during the Soviet period, as well as on the Russian diaspora and families of…

October 12, 2021Bulgaria, GRU, Russia

Geopolitics

Russia — Saudi Arabia military cooperation agreement. New normal in the region?

Russian Federation has signed a military cooperation agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KAS) on the 24th of August. This is another signal that there is an ongoing shift…

October 4, 2021Russia, Saudi Arabia

Intelligence ops

Russian spies – one of the instruments of influence in the Western Balkans

A group of former ministers from neighboring countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia) sent a letter to the European institutions and NATO asking them to start a "political dialogue…

October 1, 2021Albania, Balkans, Croatia, GRU, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Russia, Serbia

Estimates Governance

Putin’s worsening health set to be a determining factor in Russia’s policy over the next four years

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent move to go on self-isolation, allegedly due to certain people from his entourage having contracted COVID-19, may be associated with something beyond mass fraud in…

September 29, 2021Putin, Russia

Geopolitics National Security

What the new NDAA sanctions on Russia reveal about US political environment

The seemingly surprising last minute added sanctions against Russian individuals and entities connected to the violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty, as well as to the NordStream 2 pipeline come in the…

September 28, 2021Russia, Sanctions, USA

Coup Intelligence ops

With military coup failed, Sudanese regime is still at risk

The takeover attempt in Sudan on September 21 rises from a national scale crisis and domestic discord among powerful institutions, including the army, amid foreign intervention, and points to the…

September 23, 2021Russia, Sudan

Intelligence ops Psyops

Russia is countering the USA and EU states in Mali

Russia is trying to “convince Malians that the EU occupies Mali” and is “very active in this matter”,Deputy Defence Minister Jan Havránek has warned about how Russia is portraying the…

September 20, 2021France, Mali, Russia

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