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The Big Game in the Sahel Style: Geopolitical Ambitions of Russia, the US and France in the Sahel Region

During the last several years the situation in the Sahel region has undergone significant changes. Coups d’Etat have consistently taken place in Mali, Burkina-Faso, Niger and Gabon. Realizing their own significance in the multipolar world, African countries are more and more drifting away from the former colonial powers, which had used them for centuries as a cheap source of natural resources. Such perturbations in the region are giving way to a new span…

Aleksei Bolshakov

Middle East crisis sparks new tensions between Israel and Iran

The military conflict between Hamas and Israel continues to top the international agenda. It is clear that the parties to the conflict have external support. And while in the case of Israel these are extra-regional forces (primarily the US and the countries of the collective West), the struggle of the Palestinian people finds supporters among regional and extra-regional countries. A special place in this list belongs to Iran, which is a principled opponent of the Zionist regime and the US hegemonic policy in the Middle East. Despite persistent Sunni-Shia tensions, Iran has demonstrated…

Alexandr Svaranc

Song Young-gil is finished?

The 24-year long political career of the former chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party, Song Young-gil, hangs in the balance after he was arrested over a scandal related to the party’s leadership elections in 2021. NEO has already written about the situation around this person, but it’s worth recalling. A former mayor of Incheon and a five-term MP, Song was considered one of the most pro-Russian politicians in the Republic of Korea and was part of Moon Jae-in’s inner circle, who in 2017 sent him as a special envoy to the Russian Federation. After Moon became a “lame duck,”…

Konstantin Asmolov

The Three-Month-Long War in Gaza Undermined the US Position in the World

Veniamin Popov

Who Benefits from a Wider War in the Middle East

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The Palestinian crisis requires the intervention of key global players

Alexandr Svaranc

Taiwan’s Presidential Elections: A Choice between War and Peace

Abbas Hashemite

The Global South is increasingly vocal about its ambitions

Viktor Mikhin

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