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The West’s Tightrope: Balancing diplomacy and power in the Red Sea

Articles / Due Diligence, Geopolitics, Hezbollah, Iran, Red Sea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Suez Canal, Ukraine, USA / 01/2024

Global attention continues to focus on the Red Sea region where the conflict is getting worse. Having started with a series of calculated moves by regional powers, it is threatening to develop into a terrible conflict with potentially far-reaching consequences. Military clashes continue to increase, geopolitical tensions are rising and a humanitarian crisis is likely. [...]

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Checkmate or stalemate: The global standoff between world leaders and citizens

Articles / China, civil unrest, Geopolitics, Global Threats, Iran, North korea, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, USA / 12/2023

From the beginning of 2023, the geopolitical landscape has been marked by a series of escalating tensions and civil unrest – evidence of deep-seated economic, political and social discord across the globe. Some analysts are questioning whether businesses should expect civil unrest on a global scale, which could significantly impact market stability and operational continuity. China’s

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Russia, Ukraine and Africa: Against the grain

Articles / Africa, China, Due Diligence, Global Threats, grain and wheat, humanitarian, Russia, Ukraine / 01/2023

Is Russia’s war in Ukraine a localised conflict, a regional war, or a global disaster? The military action concentrated on one country alone would suggest the first, the various nuclear- and cyber-threats against Europe the second, but global trends are increasingly confirming the third. It is possible to view the Russian invasion, and by extension

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Moldova: in between a rock and a hard place

Articles / Due Diligence, energy supply, Kremlin, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine / 11/2022

Moldova finds itself in a tricky situation currently. Since the invasion of Ukraine, the neighboring country has struggled to maintain its support for Ukraine and its pro-Western stance while, at the same time, receiving an enormous amount of pressure from Russia. The lack of natural energy resources means Moldova relies heavily on Russian natural gas

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Ukraine: The Great Sham Referenda

Articles / China, Due Diligence, Putin, Russia, Ukraine / 10/2022

Russia is staging referenda in four occupied regions of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaropizhzhia. By ‘proving’ that the majority of citizens wish to be a part of Russia, Putin hopes to legitimise his invasion, as he did in Crimea in 2014. The voting in the so-called republics of Donetsk and Luhansk was announced

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A finishing move?

Articles / Due Diligence, Putin, Russia, Sanctions, Ukraine / 10/2022

If modern Russia’s past was solidified by one mobilisation, its future may yet hang on another. Putin has broken yet a further promise to the Russian people and announced the first mobilisation draft since the Second World War (or the ‘Great Patriotic War’ according to Moscow), a tacit admission that the war is going badly;

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The Fifth International: The Kremlin’s plan for Europe

Articles / Corruption, Czech republic, Due Diligence, Fraud, Russia, Ukraine / 09/2022

A term that used to refer to the efforts made by groups of socialists and communists to create a new workers' international, the Fifth International now has a different, more sinister meaning. According to historian, Yuri Felshtinsky, Russia has managed to secure its political influence throughout Europe to create pro-Kremlin political parties and groups, and

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Oligarchy in Russia: The Jaws of a dilemma

Articles / Corruption, Due Diligence, Kolomoyskyi, Russia, Ukraine, Zelensky / 09/2022

As Ukraine looks to rebuild both practically and socially (a reconstruction program requiring hundreds of billions of Euros is being put forward and there are tentative plans to restart the country’s football season), the biggest earthquake is yet to come. In an unexpected yet devastating move, President Zelensky has stripped Ukrainian citizenship from Ihor Kolomoyskyi,

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A sanctioned operation

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Russia, Russian Business, Ukraine, Ukraine-Russia relations / 04/2022

The list of sanctions against prominent Russian figures grows ever longer. In addition to the ‘usual suspects’ of high-ranking political, economic and military figures, the consequences of the war are now becoming a family affair, with Putin’s two adult children and the daughter of Foreign Minister Lavrov included in the latest round for the first

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Wheel Of Misfortune

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Hungary, Orban, Russia, Ukraine / 04/2022

There was a brief moment when it looked as if Viktor Orban had changed. As the European Union voted to impose wide-ranging sanctions on Russia in a response to their invasion of Ukraine, Hungary’s representative – so often the EU outlier in his autocratic nature and his naked approval towards, and support of, Vladimir Putin

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