Category: 4. World

The recent U.S. raid on Caracas has inevitably provoked extreme reactions, ranging sometimes from enthusiasm to—much more often—astonishment and indignation. True, over 80 years of the post-Yalta order the world has got accustomed to cautiously observing…

USA and Russia Ready to Face Future

Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Christian Whiton, Mark Simon

As geopolitical tensions persist, the U.S. and Russia appear poised for a prolonged standoff—but could there be a path…

Even invoking international law has become awkward. Institutions look increasingly irrelevant as political and economic processes unfold demonstrably outside them.

This reaction is understandable. The latest targets of actions that violate the UN Charter and other…

The Special Military Operation, or more precisely – the next war imposed and waged by Europe (we have already begun pushing the US out of it), is entering its endgame. We hope that a ceasefire will come relatively soon. The problem of the hostility of the failing…

“What we are about to do here is a neighborly act. We are like a group of householders, living in the same locality, who decide to express their community of interests by entering into a formal association for their mutual self-protection.”

That was US President…

We can observe a trend toward adaptation, as leading powers adjust their approaches to the reality of North Korea’s de facto nuclear status. This shift also extends to the Trump administration.

In Russian diplomacy, the term “Korean Peninsula Nuclear Problem”…

US President Donald Trump has reportedly delivered an ultimatum to a group of European countries: accept the sale of Greenland to the United States, or face additional trade tariffs.

This is not the first ultimatum Trump has issued. In recent years there have been…

We are currently living in a world of immense risks. Never since the Second World War, the global geopolitical and military situation has been so dangerous.

The main source of instability, threats and aggression is well known. Yet it would be a mistake to attribute…

For citation, please use:
Bezrukov, A.O., 2026. A Great Redivision? Russia in Global Affairs, 24(2), pp. 10–21. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-2-10-21

The fall of 2025 saw renewed discussion of an alleged impasse on the Ukrainian front, necessitating a…

In recent years we have become accustomed to a great deal, yet world politics continues to set new records. Or perhaps sink to new depths, depending on your taste. One week in January provided a full set of examples: the kidnapping of Venezuela’s presidential…