Friends again: Erdoğan meets Putin
Erdoğan’s visit to Saint Petersburg will likely usher in closer ties with Russia and send strong message to the West – that Ankara has options.
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Vladimir and Nicholas: Putinism enters a new historic phase
Vladimir is not Nicholas, and the 2010s are not the 1850s. Nonetheless, if Putinism is entering its “Nicolaevian” phase, it raises some worrying implications for the future.
Turkey after July 15: The view from Ankara
Dr. Ibrahim Kalin, Ambassador and Presidential Spokesperson, speaks to ECFR about the July 15 coup attempt and its aftermath.
Turkey’s failed coup could be good news for international action on Syria
Turkey's constrained military and inward focus could soften its 'Assad must go' policy.
What the Olympic doping scandal says about the decline of Putin’s Russia
Drug taking in sport can be seen as a metaphor for the country’s ills: denial, bluster and blame providing a recipe for isolation and stagnation
Spain’s balancing act with Russia
The weakening of common European positions, with some key Spanish allies making overtures to Moscow, could weaken their mitigating force against a mix of isolationist and Realpolitik temptations, influential in Madrid
European security concerns bring Russian mafia back onto agenda
For Moscow, Russian-based criminal networks provide an unconventional asset in the geopolitical struggle with the West
Turkey’s failed coup changes nothing and yet everything
Turkey's counter-coup has concentrated state power in the hands of President Erdogan, thrown state services into turmoil and unsettled Turkey's allies.
Voices on Ukraine, voice of Ukraine: Zoryan Kiss
ECFR’s head of the Madrid office, Francisco de Borja Lasheras, speaks with Zoryan Kiss, an LGBT activist in Ukraine, about progress of LGBT rights in…
NATO and Russia – what about the Black Sea?
What should be done in order to deter Russia from further aggression in this strategic area?