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NARRATIVE: Ankara, July 2026 — the summit set to reshape the war and the Alliance
On June 25, 2026, speaking from Washington, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte chose words that belong nowhere near the usual register of Atlantic diplomacy.…
REPORT: Ukrainian grain for Shahed drones — the network bypassing sanctions
Between September 2025 and March 2026, ships left Turkish ports loaded with Ukrainian grain. Official destination: Iran. Real destination, according to an investigation by…
DECODING: 5% of GDP on Defense by 2035 — NATO Faces Its Historic Bill
In 2025, at the Hague summit, NATO leaders adopted an objective that had seemed unthinkable to many of them: dedicating 5% of GDP to…
OPINION: OFAC Removes Russians from Sanctions — Trump Quietly Yields to Moscow
On June 24, 2026, OFAC — the Office of Foreign Assets Control within the U.S. Treasury Department — quietly removed from its SDN list…
COLUMN: Fico at Ankara without a mandate — NATO solidarity tested by one man
On June 27, 2026, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico publicly announced that Slovakia would attend the NATO summit in Ankara, on July 7–8, 2026,…
PROFILE: Mohamed Abdel — The Egyptian Cook Killed by a Russian Drone on a Civilian Cargo Ship in the Black Sea
The Victress was a cargo vessel. It was owned by a Turkish businessman named Cengiz Akpınar. It sailed under a Panamanian flag — a…
ESSAY: Putin's "Negotiations" — A Manual of Deliberate Contradiction
On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin declared to the world that Russia was "ready to negotiate" — citing the Istanbul 2022 framework, the Anchorage…
INVESTIGATION: Putin Says One Thing, Does Another — The Diplomatic Theater of June 2026
On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin publicly declared that Russia was "ready to negotiate" — citing the Istanbul 2022 framework, the Anchorage 2025 contacts,…
ANALYSIS: Anchorage, Istanbul, MFA: the Kremlin's three maximalist mantras
There is a constant in Vladimir Putin's diplomacy since the start of the full-scale war: the objectives have never changed, only the vocabulary adapts…