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Monday Commentary: If Russians and Turks start killing each other in Libya and Syria, the consequences may be unpredictable
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Monday Commentary: If Russians and Turks start killing each other in Libya and Syria, the consequences may be unpredictable

3 February 2020
Reflecting on new tensions in Russian-Turkish relations Dennis Sammut says that Erdogan is not the first one to discover that the hug of the Russian bear comes with a price. Others, not least in the Caucasus region, are watching as this drama unfolds, and wondering what the consequences may be.
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EU foreign policy chief to visit Iran Monday
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EU foreign policy chief to visit Iran Monday

2 February 2020
Following in the footsteps of his two predecessors, Catherine Ashton and Federica Morgherni, Borrell is engaging personally and fully with the "Iran nuclear file", and the visit is seen as an attempt by the EU to save the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
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Opinion: Will Putin allow Belarus to play a balancing act?
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Opinion: Will Putin allow Belarus to play a balancing act?

28 January 2020
With Pompeo due in Minsk this week, and the Belarus presidential elections on the horizon, Moscow and Minsk have some difficult decisions to take. Benyamin Poghosyan discusses the state of Russia-Belarus relations in this op-ed for commonspace.eu
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Monday Commentary: The world is on a military spending spree
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Monday Commentary: The world is on a military spending spree

27 January 2020
It is easy to succumb to the pressures of the arms lobby and to rush into a military spending spree without understanding that there are still alternatives to this, and that these alternatives have not yet been exhausted, argues Dennis Sammut in this week's Monday Commentary on commonspace.eu