The EU’s plans to upgrade the Middle Corridor trade route may boost Russian and Chinese connectivity with central Asia. But for Europeans, the long-term economic and strategic benefits of going ahead with the development far outweigh these risks
Central Asian countries circumventing sanctions against Russia are a problem for Europe
The Moscow bombing attack says nothing about Tajikistan but a lot about Russia
Marie Dumoulin wrote a tribune for Le Monde about the need to look at Russia’s internal structural factors as an explanatory factor for the attack
The Biden-Xi Summit in San Francisco doesn’t evoke the birth of a new G-2, yet it shows that the two biggest rivals in the world of today are trying to contain risks and manage their competition
Restoring relations between Turkey and Armenia is the key to stability in the Caucasus — and to potentially undermining Russia’s supremacy in the region as the only power-broker
It is likely that Moscow believes that the border tensions between the two countries have not reached a level of intensity that would justify its involvement
Marie Dumoulin shows how the conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the one hand, and Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on the other, are signs of profound change
