Janko Šćepanović

Is Russia’s Influence at the United Nations on the Decline?

Image credit/license On the eve of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressed over a hundred diplomats gathered at a roundtable organized…

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Putin’s Quest for Relevance: Why Russia is Offering to Mediate between the U.S. and Iran

Image credit/license In early March 2025, reports from Bloomberg and Reuters, among other outlets, claimed that, during their February 12 phone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered President Donald Trump…

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The 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan: Another Russian Attempt to Regain Diplomatic Status

Image credit/license On October 22-24, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the latest BRICS summit in Kazan. Notably, it was the first gathering of the heads of state and government…

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Russia in the Western Balkans since the War in Ukraine: Detachment, Diminished Status, and the Agency of Local Actors

Image license/credit In April 2023, James Rubin, the newly appointed head of the U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center, visited several Western Balkan countries and warned that Russian disinformation, promulgated…

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is on a rising trajectory. At the 2022 Samarkand Summit, Iran officially signed a memorandum of obligation to join as a full-fledged member. For the…

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Three Decades of Post-Soviet Institution-Building: Slow Start, Expansion, Stagnation

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) As this year draws to a close, Russia and most of the former Soviet states will mark three decades since the USSR was dissolved and a…

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