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Turkey and Syria - will there be a rapprochement?

At one time many experts and political commentators took the view that there were real hopes for a restoration of good relations between Turkey and Syria, with Russia and Iran acting as brokers, and the prospects for a rapprochement between the two neighbors seemed rosy. But the predicted improvement in relations failed to materialize, and now, in the light of recent statements by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it seems more unlikely than ever. In a televised interview on August 9, Bashar al-Assad said that he would not meet with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and stressed that “the goal of the Turkish president is to legitimize…
Viktor Mikhin
Mongolia and the UN

Mongolia and the UN: a broader understanding of the “international community”

Mongolia has virtually always had to operate far from major global political and civilizational centers, both geographically and culturally. Looking for economic partners and political allies that are physically remote from Mongolia has historically been a hugely popular concept in the nation. The Mongol rulers of the “imperial period” dispatched ambassadors to distant states such as Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Pope of Rome. The early twentieth-century theocratic Mongolia likewise began…
Boris Kushhov
Lee Geun

Lee Geun gets a suspended sentence

On August 17, 2023, South Korean YouTuber and former Navy SEAL Lee Geun, 39, accused of illegally entering Ukraine in 2022 “to fight the Russian invasion,” was sentenced to a 1.5- year suspended term. This popular video blogger once gave rise to rumors that “South Korean special forces are fighting in Ukraine,” which prompted this author to clarify that the rumor was about a star of tacticool videos on YouTube, who had a group of cameramen and makeup artists accompany him as he went to war. Lee Geun spent three months in Ukraine before returning home with a knee injury on May 27, 2022. On June 10, 2022, he voluntarily appeared…
Konstantin Asmolov

Erdoğan uses ‘US pressure’ as leverage...

Alexandr Svaranc

Gender equality: the faux pas of Americanizing Mongolia

Bair Danzanov

A failed “human rights” attack on the DPRK

Konstantin Asmolov

Is Turkey changing its tactic in the negotiations on the “grain deal”?

Alexandr Svaranc

Regarding the escape of a US Army Private to North Korea

Konstantin Asmolov
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