A sham “energy truce”. Day 1441 of the war

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• The Nemtsov assassination: warning shots to the Kremlin’s opponents

• Turkey’s Syria policy on the defensive

• Russian gas for the Donbas: the games being played with Kyiv and Brussels

• Kazakhstan on the edge

• ‘Hybrid’ truce in the Donbas

• Putin in Budapest – overcoming isolation

• Minsk 2 - a fragile truce

• The Luftwaffe and American military equipment in Uzbekistan

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

NATO summit in The Hague: Trump’s return and a two-component 5% of GDP on defence

Open code, closed system: the role of open source in China’s technological rivalry with the United States

Discipline and punish: how Turkey controls the internet

Croatia’s demographic crisis: how to address depopulation

The CDU/CSU–SPD government facing economic challenges

The Kaja Kallas era: Estonia’s high-profile diplomacy