Islam in the former USSR and the phenomenon of the post-Soviet militants in Syria and Iraq.

The crisis in EU-Russia relations over Ukraine has made the two players interested in the Southern Gas Corridor once again.

The Russian-Abkhazian treaty on alliance and strategic partnership brings the current model of functioning of para-state to an end.

While the Kremlin presents the EEU as the Eurasian equivalent of the European Union, the project is in reality an imitation of integration.