аналитика & Блоги

Empires are like old stage costumes: once they glittered under the footlights, taffeta whispering across history’s marble floors. Now they sit in a props closet, riddled with moth holes and smelling of naphthalene. All that’s left to them is yearning for their former selves. That ache has a name: the phantom pains of greatness.

How the lack of a seacoast, an empire, or “spiritual bonds” doesn’t stop a country from thriving

But in today’s new reality, Europe must choose: should it forge its own path as an independent player, or continue to be molded by someone else’s policies?

The Moscow-centric system, accustomed to redistributing resource revenues and subsidizing the regions, now finds itself with little left to allocate.

ISHII Hidetoshi's "The Coming Collapse of Russia" is an interesting book that delves into the issues of the 7th Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, held on August 1st and 2nd, 2023, at the House of Representatives First Members' Building Large Conference Room and other venues, by ISHII Hidetoshi, who worked hard on the Japanese side to hold the Forum. He and his partner, ISHII Yoko, who acted as interpreter and moderator on the second day, conducted repeated follow-up interviews.

The liberation of part of the Kursk Oblast by Ukrainian forces could set a precedent that might influence other border regions of the so-called Russian Federation.