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Russia – in the long run – is in decline and should rethink its policies towards the Former Soviet Union.

 BY DONG YON KIM (Op-Ed Contributor) While South Korea fights with Japan over the economy and past history, the Sino-Russian alliance — joined by North Korea — is getting stronger, forming… read more →

BY ELANUR URAL Turkey’s economy is suffering. Consumer inflation is stuck above a 20% rate, and unemployment has increased by over 30% since 2012.[1][2] The Lira dipped down to one-seventh… read more →

BY AUSTEN DOWELL While other man-made disasters like the Chernobyl meltdown or the Deepwater Horizon oil spill often command greater name-recognition, the slow death of the Aral Sea is undoubtedly… read more →

BY ELANUR URAL Prior to 2014, both Crimea and the Tatars were relatively unknown names to household news in the West. Now they are mentioned almost daily, most recently in… read more →

BY ELANUR URAL VICE’s crew visited it with protective suits, but David Farrier of Netflix’s Dark Tourist jumped right in after a shot of vodka. Kazakhstan’s ‘Atomic Lake’, though sitting… read more →

BY AUSTEN DOWELL While American foreign-policy experts and politicians are consumed with the threat of the so-called “rise of China” to US regional and global interests, it is easy to… read more →

BY ERIK KHZMALYAN & ARMEN V. SAHAKYAN For the first time in its history, the United States is facing a situation where it has to deal with three simultaneously rising… read more →

BY DANIEL ROSSELL-EVANS Shanghai Cooperation Organization Introduction The end of this year’s G7 Summit in Canada provoked images of an alliance divided, with key partners airing their grievances in public.… read more →

BY AUSTEN DOWELL Nowhere is Uzbekistan’s constant juggling act between advancing national security interests and producing much-needed economic growth so readily apparent as at its long Ferghana Valley border. Foreign… read more →