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.
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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 widely debated law and the background of the struggle against it
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.
About some theses from I. Aliyev’s interview
The aggressive statements made by the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, during an interview with the local media on January 7, 2025, were quite unexpected.
“New Middle East” vs. “Ottoman Caliphate”
After the fall of the Bashar Assad regime, the contradictions between Turkey and Israel in Syria have intensified, revealing a fundamental divergence in their views on the future of the Middle East and, accordingly, their roles in its reorganization.
Turkish-Israeli confrontation in the context of the NATO strategy
On January 7, 2025, The Jerusalem Post acknowledged about a report prepared by the Nagel Committee (Defense Budget and Security Strategy Analysis Commission, established in 2024) for the Israeli government.
The 9-month phase of the West–Georgia discordance: the aftermath of the adoption of the widely debated law and the background of the struggle against it
The article presents events that took place in and around Georgia during the period from April to October 2024 (up to the parliamentary elections held on October 26).
