Publication
Syria: The Kurdish Issue in the American-Turkish Agenda
Based on recent events in the region, Washington has refused Ankara’s request to disarm the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and dismantle the Kurdish administration of Rojava.
Internal Political Aspects of I. Aliyev’s Initiative toward Russia
The formal reason for the political-diplomatic conflict was an incident involving the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) passenger aircraft on December 25, 2024, in Aktau, Kazakhstan(2). Immediately after the crash, media outlets close to the Azerbaijan’s government placed all responsibility on the Russian side, accusing its air defense and civil aviation services of negligence and unprofessionalism.
About the Project of Relocating Iran’s Capital
In January 2025, the Iranian leadership once again announced its intention to move the capital from Tehran to the location called Makran – one of the regions of the Sistan and Baluchestan province, on the shores of the Indian Ocean.
The Karabakh “Overtone” in the context of the Resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli Case
In February 2025, during a press conference following talks with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. president Donald Trump proposed taking the Palestinian enclave of Gaza under American control in the form of “long-term ownership”.
Quid pro quo in Turkish-Azerbaijani relations
Experts tend to believe that the success of Azerbaijani offensive in the fall of 2020 was due to the high degree of Ankara’s involvement in the Karabakh war.
Abkhazia on the front line of the Russian-Turkish confrontation
In late January 2025, international media circulated a document with a request from a close associate of R. Erdogan, Turkish MP and the leader of the radical “Nationalist Movement Party” Devlet Bahceli, addressed to Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan.
The Syrian “window of missed opportunities”: features of RF’s half-hearted foreign policy strategy
By December 2024, RF defense minister Andrey Belousov outlined the priorities in the field of ensuring Russia’s security at an expanded meeting of the ministry’s board, noting “the fulfillment of individual tasks” and the military presence in Central Asia and Africa, the Caucasus, and Transnistria.
The Turkish aspect of the Arab-Israeli reconciliation
On January 19, 2025, a six-week ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian “radical group” Hamas came into effect in the Gaza Strip, aiming to end the 15-month-long war.
The 9-month phase of the West–Georgia discordance: the aftermath of the adoption of the scandalous law and the background of the struggle against it (Part III)
The work presents the developments that took place in and around Georgia during the period from April to October 2024 (before the parliamentary elections held on October 26), the recirculation and adoption of the bill on “Transparency of Foreign Influence”, the pre-election processes conditioned by it, and the complex developments that took place around Georgia
Covert “Gas Wars” between Israel and Turkey
The events at the end of 2024 in Syria have revived the international agenda on the trans-regional energy route from the Persian Gulf to Europe.
