On April 27, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an executive decree stating Russia would deport all Ukrainian citizens who did not accept a Russian passport by July 1, 2024. The President declared that whoever did not follow this policy ...
Georgia is an Eastern European country that contains three politically and ethnically divided ethnic enclaves: Abkhazia in the northwest, South Ossetia in the north and Ajaria in the southwest. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the ex-Soviet ...
From Sep. 12 to 17, North Korean leader Kim Jung-Un took a rare trip outside of the country to pay a visit to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. They discussed relations and potential mutually beneficial exchanges, which has triggered global concerns of ...
There is often nothing more painful than seeing loved ones struggle some 10,000 km away. One thing more painful is the inability to reunite with loved ones due to the substantial risk of being detained or sent to prison. Seeing ...
Like everything else in the South Caucasus, discourse around Armenia’s nuclear power plant — labeled “one of the most dangerous” in the world — is entangled in a mosaic of geopolitical complexity and conflicting regional interests. As the only country ...
As the Ukraine War drags on, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ominously warned that Russia may shift its nuclear policy to a first-strike strategy rather than a defensive one, effectively introducing a nuclear threat into the conflict. This threat of ...
A “normal” American family may seem like the least likely framework for discussions about the politics of potential nuclear war. The narrative choice of such a family, however, is clear once audiences are made aware that this “family” is merely ...
What it means to be Black in Russia is an understudied topic. This is primarily due to the fact that the Black population in Russia is minuscule, making up an estimated .03% of the Russian population. In an interview with ...
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international songwriting competition between European states (and Australia). The competition’s popularity across Europe and beyond has made it a staple of European pop culture, where each country can showcase its cultural heritage through ...
This article was originally published on March 8, 2014. Thomas D. Armstrong Recent op-eds have labeled Putin as a mastermind or a megalomaniac fool. I am of the opinion that Putin is a megalomaniac mastermind exploiting a disempowered US. However, ...