Tag: Putin
Russian Ally Urges Putin to Freeze War
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, leader of a country formally allied with Russia through the Collective Security Treaty Organization, publicly urged Vladimir Putin on July 25 to freeze the war in Ukraine.The significance lay not simply in another ceasefire proposal, but in its delivery from inside Moscow's own security bloc –…
Azerbaijan’s Iran War Balancing Act Faces Limits
From Karabakh to the Iran war, Baku keeps testing its own limits.Azerbaijan’s conduct through the 2026 war between the United States, Israel, and Iran fits a pattern stretching back years: a small state repeatedly testing how far it can push bigger neighbors before pulling back. A new Institute for National…
Russia Finds a Way to Stay in Tartous
Russia has found a way to keep its foothold in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, pairing a reduced naval presence at Tartous with a new commercial logistics hub. Under the plan, one of the port's two berths would handle cargo while the other stays open to the Russian…
Belarus Caught Between Russian Pressure and Ukrainian Deterrence
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made an unusually explicit promise to his servicemen in early July: "No one is going to send you into this slaughter." The declaration came after weeks of rising tension. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy openly accused Russia of trying to pull Belarus deeper into the war, Kyiv…
