Moscow is ‘very attentively’ watching as US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in Washington.

• December 13, 2023

Donald Tusk says Poland will regain leadership position in Europe and will be strong part of NATO.

• December 13, 2023

The Ukrainian president is trying to help break a US domestic political deadlock that would deprive his country of war funding.

• December 13, 2023

Ukrainian president goes on diplomatic offensive in Washington, DC to try and win over sceptical right-wing Republicans.

• December 13, 2023

Turkish president hopes the NATO allies and neighbours will mend relations despite deep-rooted differences.

• December 7, 2023

Germany has tried to make amends for its Nazi past by backing Israel, in what some experts say is an attempt to whitewash its international image.

• December 7, 2023

Putin hosts Raisi as part of a blitz round of Middle East diplomacy after visits to the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

• December 7, 2023

By Benyamin POGHOSYAN, PhD, Chairman, Center for Political and Economic Strategic Studies

The war in Ukraine has significantly impacted the geopolitics of the former Soviet space. As Russia – West relations have hit the lowest point since the end of the Cold War, or perhaps even since the Caribbean nuclear crisis of 1962, the newly independent states face tough choices in their foreign policy. Can they find a balance between Russia and the West, and if not, should they choose Russia or the West? It seemed that this conundrum should not apply to Armenia. The country is a member of all Russian-led organizations in the post-Soviet space – Collective Security Treaty Organization, Eurasian Economic Union, and Armenia hosts a Russian military base and Russian border troops. Thus, many may argue that Armenia has already chosen to be with Russia, and the war in Ukraine would complicate Armenian efforts to develop relations with the West, which Yerevan has done quite successfully in the last three decades. READ MORE

• December 5, 2023