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1 week ago | 
cepa.org | Emil Avdaliani |Aura Sabadus |William Echikson |Alexander Kolyandr
April’s inaugural Central Asia-EU Summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, was the first of its kind for the two sides and was seen as a means to elevate the bloc’s influence in the region. Amid growing great power competition over Eurasian connectivity, Brussels was looking to secure a more solid footing.
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3 weeks ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Alexander Kolyandr
It’s impossible that this list of Russian sanctions demands will be fulfilled in full – giving the Kremlin a pretext to continue fighting.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Maciej Bukowski |Aura Sabadus |Wojciech Jakóbik |Alexander Kolyandr
As President Donald Trump rushes to kill clean energy projects, the new European Commission is racing ahead to reach its ambitious green goals. It’s an opportunity for Europe to take the lead. A good test will be its plans to promote green hydrogen. Upon moving into the White House, President Trump ended the Biden administration’s last-minute tax incentives for clean hydrogen investments.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
meduza.io | Alexander Kolyandr
This fall, Russian monetary officials raised the cost of credit for banks by hiking the key interest rate to 21 percent — higher than it’s been in more than a decade. On December 6, Sberbank CEO German Gref warned that the Russian economy is slowing, particularly in the housing construction sector.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Adrian Pascu-Tulbure |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Alexander Kolyandr |Michael Evans
Strange things are happening again in global politics. In Romania, a former UN sustainability advisor who has made admiring remarks about the fascist 1930s Iron Guard movement has just won the first round of the presidential elections. If you like Andrew Tate, the notorious “manosphere” influencer who also happens to be a Romanian resident, you’ll love Calin Georgescu. A trim sixty-two-year-old former national judo champion, he likes to post videos of himself swimming in ice on TikTok.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Kolyandr |Julie Burchill |Ben Domenech |Alexandra Coghlan
Russia’s ruble is in trouble. The currency has plunged to its lowest rate against the dollar since the weeks after the outbreak of war against Ukraine. On Wednesday, the ruble hit 110 against the dollar for the first time since March 16, 2022. The currency has recovered slightly, to 108 against the dollar this morning, but in Moscow people are worried.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Alexander Kolyandr
Russia’s ruble is in trouble. The currency has plunged to its lowest rate against the dollar since the weeks after the outbreak of war against Ukraine. On Wednesday, the ruble hit 110 against the dollar for the first time since 16 March 2022. The currency has recovered slightly, to 108 against the dollar this morning, but in Moscow people are worried. Russians who lived through the tumultuous years after the collapse of the Soviet Union know all about the dangers of currency devaluation.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Alexander Kolyandr
Russia’s ruble is in trouble. The currency has plunged to its lowest rate against the dollar since the weeks after the outbreak of war against Ukraine. On Wednesday, the ruble hit 110 against the dollar for the first time since 16 March 2022. The currency has recovered slightly, to 108 against the dollar this morning, but in Moscow people are worried.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Timothy Garton Ash |Alexander Kolyandr |Michael Peck |Michael Sheridan
Guess what? 1,000 days after the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the G7 have finally found the sense to recognize that sanctions can actually work. With a bit of effort.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Andrei Soldatov |Irina Borogan |Timothy Garton Ash |Alexander Kolyandr
Plenty of Russian officials see the election of Donald Trump to the White House as a chance to strike a Ukraine deal but also as an opportunity to start renegotiating everything in Russia’s relationship with the West — from arms treaties to the entire outcome of the Cold War.
