Russia in Global Affairs

The tsarist, Soviet, and modern periods demonstrate that Siberia’s development has always strengthened Russia. Today, in the Second Turn to the East, the movement of Russia’s spiritual, economic, and political center toward the Urals and Siberia is a strategic necessity, in which Siberia serves as cultural core, innovation base, and driver of demographic and economic growth.

For all of Trump 2.0’s vulgarity and ignorance, his game show policy lacks consistency of purpose, while the roller coaster of uncertainty and risk is uniquely accelerating the U.S./Global North’s decline and the rise of the Global South.

Labour is having a really bad time. Former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner recently resigned after a property tax scandal. Sir Keir Starmer has historically low approval ratings. Labour is also polling a distant second, and most of the UK is unsure what the party stands for. Scratch the surface a little and see that Labour is actually in a stronger position than the British media and most experts give it credit for.

Tehran has been closely monitoring the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement signed on 8 August 2025 under Donald Trump’s mediation. Iran views U.S. contribution not as a benevolent initiative for peace and the TRIPP as a transit and trade project, but rather as part of a broader strategy aimed at reshaping the region’s geopolitical map to Iran’s (and Russia’s) detriment.