Russia & Central Asia

The summer of protests in Moscow and across Russia has shown that the fight between the Kremlin and the opposition is a long-term game with both sides having their own strengths and weaknesses. The Russian economy is stagnating (real GDP…

La Russia si è sempre mossa come un pendolo fra Oriente e Occidente, fra impeti slavofili e ritorni occidentalisti, a livello culturale prima ancora che politico. Come scrisse Pëtr Čaadaev nelle sue Lettere filosofiche, “la Russia…

Relations between Russia and China may be at their warmest since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, whose 70th anniversary on October 1 prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to remind Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang,…

For seventy years, the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir has been divided between the warring South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan. Since both acquired nuclear weapons in 1998, the Line of Control which forms a truce line between…

Si sblocca, almeno per il momento, la lunga crisi politica e istituzionale della Regione autonoma del Kurdistan iracheno, nel nordest del Paese: il passaggio è avvenuto con l’elezione di Nechirvan Barzani alla guida della Presidenza e di…