For almost a year, Russia was engaged in selling the Serbian oil and gas company NIS, which is controlled by Gazprom. During this time, the actions of the Russian side brought Serbia to the brink of a fuel crisis. This story could completely change Russia’s role in the Balkans.

In early January 2026, Russian journalist and emigrant Evgeny Safronov tragically died near Paris. This story exposed the problem of vulnerability among people experiencing prolonged stress and social isolation, which many emigrants face

Is it possible to keep empathy, ethics, and principles in a job like this? Absolutely not. Even the most decent person, placed in this incentive structure, becomes an operator of violence.

Forty years ago, the ideas of Mikhail Gorbachev gave rise to the concept of “new thinking,” which led to humanistic changes in international politics. Why didn’t these changes work, and why, forty years later, have we fallen into a historical abyss?