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Trump plans Putin-Zelensky peace summit after talks in Washington
19 August 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky look set for a peace summit after fast-moving talks on Monday 18 August between Donald Trump and European leaders that focused on the key issue of long-term security guarantees for Kyiv. Hopes of a breakthrough rose after Trump said he had spoken by phone with Russian counterpart Putin, whom he met in Alaska last week, following a "very good" meeting with the Europeans and the Ukrainian president at the White House on Monday.
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Commentary: A delicate moment for the future of European security
8 December 2019
Behind the scenes, in the corners of the chancellories of Europe, and in cosy meeting rooms of think tanks in Brussels, London, Moscow, Berlin and elsewhere, diplomats and analysts are with their thinking hats on trying to grapple with the challenge of how to bring about the next chapter of European security
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Putin chairs meeting of the Russian National Security Council
22 November 2019
"'The development of the Armed Forces, other troops, military units and bodies performing missions in the field of defense for the period until 2030" was discussed, according to the Kremlin website.
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The role of parliamentary diplomacy in international relations
31 October 2019
In the second in the series, The Hague Conversations on Conflict, Simon Lunn former Secretary General of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly spoke on the role of parliamentary diplomacy in international relations, and particularly in the prevention, mediation and resolution of conflict
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Opinion: After three weeks of intensive activity everybody in Syria appears to be better off - all that is except the Kurds
28 October 2019
Benyamin Poghosyan says that the elimination of the leader of ISIS came at a time of repositioning in the war-torn country
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Opinion: Turkey's strategic balancing act between Russia and the United States
9 September 2019
"Turkey is successfully managing to implement a strategic balancing act in its relations with the US and Russia. Other regional actors may look at this policy and take good note", argues Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed
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Izvestia: Turkey walking a tightrope between Russia and Ukraine
9 August 2019
Turkey is teetering between Russia and Ukraine: while not supporting Crimea's reunification with Russia, Ankara opposes Western sanctions against Moscow, writes thje Russian newspaper.
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From the Kremlin to Rustavi 2, hysterical reactions pose a threat to Georgia
8 July 2019
Georgian politicians of all persuasions, who constantly wrap themselves up in EU and NATO flags, have been acting in a way which makes Georgia look like an unstable banana republic not an aspirant for EU or NATO membership. There seems to be no one in Georgia who is able to exercise restraint on a political class that has got used to shooting from the hip, creating a highly polorised, divided and disillusioned society. The international community now needs to step in and step up.
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Opinion: Re-evaluating the idea of ‘Putinism’
28 May 2019
The pillars of Putinism can be routed back to a Soviet-era understanding of international relations and contested world order and see the 'westernisation' of the domestic or regional environment in the vicinity of Russia's 'sphere of key interests' as a source of concern., writes Edward Abrahamyan
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NATO's North Atlantic Council meets in Ankara
7 May 2019
NATO's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, who is in Turkey for the meeting, on Monday also met with Turkish president Recip Tayip Erdogan. Speaking earlier Stoltenberg said that the NATO allies stand with Turkey as it faces serious security challenges.