From December 22, 2018, all executive departments and federal agencies in the United States are shut for 26 days. The last time they were closed for nearly so long, 21 days, was between December 16, 1995, and January 5, 1996, when ...
Sanctions have thrust Vladimir Putin’s inner circle into the public domain. In response, the state has lent sanctioned individuals a helping hand. While previously, they would get individual government contracts, the lucky few are now setting their sights on entire ...
The number of Salafi-jihadists in action around the world has risen markedly since 2001. But this is no homogenous army, and the key point is that most are fighting locally. Understanding how different jihadist groups operate in varying contexts is essential ...
BY FREDERICK KEMPE ABU DHABI — My reading choice aboard a fourteen-hour flight from DC to the United Arab Emirates, in a nod to this week’s centennial of World War I armistice, was Norman Angell’s 1909 book, ...
Konstantin Truevtsev No one expected any breakthrough solutions from the Putin-Erdogan-Merkel-Macron quadripartite summit in Istanbul. Anyway, the summit results significantly exceeded skeptics’ expectations. The mere fact that a common statement was released was a surprise: the initial differences in the parties’ positions ...
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 15 Issue: 151 By: Rahim Rahimov During his latest visit to Azerbaijan, on September 27 (see EDM, October 1, 12), President Vladimir Putin said that the main basis for the Russian language lies in the ...
BY DAVID A. WEMER US President Donald J. Trump confirmed on October 20 that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). The agreement, signed between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1987, sought to ban ...
BY DAVID A. WEMER Democracies around the world have a “growing vulnerability surplus” when it comes to protecting their societies against online disinformation and digital electoral interference, Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, Karin Olofsdotter, said on October 2. Olofsdotter opened the ...
BY ZAUR RASULZADEH Head of the Euronews Eastern European Bureau Sergio Cantone is sure that Azerbaijan as an alternative energy source is an important country for Europe. In a conversation with Azeri Daily, Cantone stressed that the implementation of energy projects jointly ...
By Rashid Shirinov The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, signed recently at the summit of the leaders of the Caspian states in Aktau, will create a more favorable background for the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, ...