The daughter of Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, is once again in the spotlight of the world’s media. She has been summoned to a Swiss court in a corruption case. Bringing this case to a close would make it possible to return about a billion dollars to the country’s state budget. But in Tashkent they refused even to temporarily release Karimova from prison. The reason may not be only about money: many representatives of today’s Uzbek elite began their careers back under Islam Karimov and were, in one way or another, connected to his daughter. Her testimony is more dangerous for them than the loss of a billion.

#Analytics #power #GulnaraKarimova #notKarimov #corruption #aftertheUSSR #successors #SaidaMirziyoyeva #uzbekistan #CentralAsia #ShavkatMirziyoyev

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This Sunday, June 7, Armenia is holding parliamentary elections-and the campaign there is unfolding according to a logic reminiscent of Moldova’s 2025 campaign. Nikol Pashinyan’s party is building its campaign around theses similar to those used in Moldova by Maia Sandu’s party: European integration and resistance to Russian threats. However, this is driven not only by the desire to protect themselves from Moscow. Both Armenian and Moldovan societies have become disillusioned with Russia as a partner that promised support but failed to provide it at key moments. For Armenia, this resulted in the loss of Karabakh; in Moldova, residents of Transnistria nearly ran out of gas in winter. The European course is seen as an alternative and a way to escape pressure, economic restrictions, and political ultimatums from Moscow. This distancing from Russia will apparently continue as long as Vladimir Putin remains in power in the Kremlin.

#Analytics #Armenia #elections #europe #Europeanintegration #Moldova #pashinyan #Putin #Russia

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The events of May 2026 have shown a significant shift in the balance of power on the fronts of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In fact, the two sides have reached parity. Yet, at the start of the full-scale war in 2022, Vladimir Putin did not consider Ukraine a significant opponent at all.

#Analytics #drones #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #militarystrategy #WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #defense #frontandrear

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At the Russian Antiwar Committee conference held last week in Strasbourg, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov debated with columnist Tatyana Rybakova about the prospects for the Russian economy in the fifth year of the war in Ukraine. We publish the most interesting parts of their conversation

#Analytics #AntiWarCommitteeofRussia #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #discussion #DonaldTrump #europe #lifeinRussia #WestandEast #inflation #Iran #China #MikhailKascentov #forecasts #XiJinping #USA #oilprices

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The Malian military junta is losing control of the situation in the country. This does not mean its rapid or inevitable fall, but the fragmentation of Mali into zones of influence controlled by various groups—where no laws apply—has already taken place. And it seems that Russian military presence has failed to prevent this disintegration.

#Analytics #Africa #VladimirPutin #warcheck #YevgenyPrigogine #Mali #Russia #France #junta #PMCVagran

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This is the final text about the problems of mass migration in Europe. More precisely, about the myths that make people think that migrants, especially from Muslim countries, are Europe's main problem. That the economy (for example, the German one) is stagnating because Germany has turned into either a transit point or a boarding house. Where new residents don't want to work, but to live on benefits.

#Analytics #AngelaMerkel #refugees #business #WarinUkraine #Germany #EuropeanUnion #WestandEast #migrants #Myths #Muse #Syria #welfarestate #servicesector #finance #Digitaleconomy #Emigration

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According to the most optimistic estimates, the total audience of popular science publications in Russia is only about 6 million people. That’s roughly 4% of the population. And this market in Russia today, it seems, is experiencing a crisis.

#Analytics #UnitedKingdom #west #acrisis #Thescience #society #Russia #market #USA #censorship

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A week ago, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections. Thus ended the Viktor Orbán era. For 16 years in power, he assumed that the benefits of close ties with Moscow would always outweigh the image costs. In reality, Hungarian voters wanted not only low prices for gasoline and gas, but also a European identity.

#Analytics #Hungary #ViktorOrban #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #democracy #DonaldTrump #EuropeanUnion #Voters #KajaCallas #MarineLePin #society #parliamentaryelections #rightandleft

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There should be only one entry point for consumers — Russian Post. All private marketplaces will also have to operate through it, and, according to the government's logic, they'll even have to pay for the privilege.

#Analytics #business #state #delivery #theInternet #communication #acrisis #mail #protests #Russia

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In the previous text, we discussed that migrants in Europe are not «guests» at all. In Germany, where I (a migrant) live, 25-30% of all citizens have migrant roots. In this sense, Germany occupies in Europe the same place that America once did in the world. That is, a migrant is not a «wicked Chechen» who, in Lermontov's words, «crawls ashore, sharpening his dagger,» but an integral part of the German landscape. Now it is necessary to talk about the crime that migrants, according to the common opinion, bring with them (here, unfortunately, the common opinion is correct). And about the terrorism that is called «Islamic.»

#Analytics #AngelaMerkel #refugees #WarinUkraine #Germany #europe #WestandEast #migrants #aftertheUSSR #crime #Syria #Emigration

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Today's Germany is a country of migrants. In some ways, even more so than the USA. From politics to culture, it has long relied on people with a migration background.

#Analytics #refugees #EastandWest #Germany #europe #Italy #xenophobia #culturalcode #Merkel #migrants #Myths #unificationofGermany #policy #rightandleft #Syria #Turkey #Emigration

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The surge of interest in artificial intelligence in Russia is happening against a backdrop of intense stress: people barely had time to recover from the pandemic before new problems arose—war and the state’s brazen intrusion into private life. At the same time, psychological help remains expensive: from 2,000 rubles per session in the provinces and several times more in the capital. There are still few qualified specialists, and in small towns and villages, often none at all.

#GPTChat #OpenAI #Analytics #business #lifeinRussia #ArtificialIntelligence #Research #Thescience #psychology #servicesector #chatbots

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A tanker is burning in the Strait of Hormuz, iconic skyscrapers are ablaze in the UAE, and a port is on fire in Oman… Iran has announced strikes on American bases in neighboring countries, but is targeting the most sensitive sites for its neighbors. If the hostilities drag on, the consequences could be felt worldwide.

#2026 #AmericanIsraeliIranian #Analytics #war #Israel #Iran #theproperty #oil #UnitedArabEmirates #SaudiArabia #USA #transport #tourism #consequences

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Tajikistan is the only post-Soviet country where power has not changed hands since the early 1990s. The president long ago chose his eldest son, Rustam Emomali, as his successor, but the transfer of authority is constantly postponed.

#Analytics #universaloutput #aftertheUSSR #securityforces #Tajikistan #transitofpower #CentralAsia #EmomaliRahmon

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After the resignation of the head of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan, Kamchybek Tashiev, President Sadyr Japarov has begun a sweeping purge of officials. The apparent goal is to bring the entire system of state governance under his control and become the sole center of power. Achieving this won’t be easy: over the past five years, Tashiev concentrated a significant share of managerial and economic decisions in his own hands, and it’s far from clear that Japarov will be able to fill this vacuum—or hold on to power.

#Analytics #power #corruption #sell #Saharabypass #aftertheUSSR #securityforces #specialservices #CentralAsia

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At the end of January, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published updated data on casualties in the Russia-Ukraine war. According to analysts’ estimates, the total number of killed, wounded, and missing amounts to 1.8 million people. Of these, 1.2 million are Russian losses, and 600,000 are Ukrainian losses.

#Analytics #warinAfghanistan #WarinUkraine #Zelensky #aftertheUSSR #every #Putin #Russia #statistics #Ukraine

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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.

#Analytics #Balkans #Hungary #gas #Gazprom #europe #oil #uae #Russia #sanctions #Serbia #USA #fuelcrisis

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Old New Year has passed, the Christmas holidays are over, and 2026 has fully come into its own. The wild start to the new calendar stretch—Nicolás Maduro’s nighttime flight, the resurgence of piracy in the Atlantic Ocean, and blood-soaked Iran—may have pushed into the background the fact that we have now been living for four years in the largest war in Europe in the last 80 years.

#Analytics #WarinUkraine #state #europe #Zelensky #violence #society #forecasts #Putin #Russia #USA #Trump

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First came the nighttime abduction of the friendly Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, then the boarding of two «shadow» tankers in the Atlantic, and now the announcement of «bone-crushing» sanctions that Congress had postponed all of last year. It seems incredible that less than two weeks ago, pro-government media in Russia were seriously anticipating a rapprochement between Moscow and Washington and predicting diplomatic isolation for Kyiv. The «spirit of Anchorage,» which Kremlin propaganda so eagerly inhaled last autumn, has completely dissipated by winter.

#Analytics #Venezuela #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #DonaldTrump #acrisis #NicolasMaduro #Russia #USA #shadowfleet

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The fewer economic, cultural, and simply human ties between Russia and European countries, the more conflict stories there are, the easier it will be to turn toward a possible military clash. No one in Europe wants such a development, but a peaceful Russian-Ukrainian agreement as imposed by the American administration looks like a respite for the aggressor. Therefore, Europe and Ukraine need to build a new structure to deter Russia together, without wasting time.

#Analytics #security #WarinUkraine #weapons #Germany #EuropeanUnion #NATO #truce #Putin #Russia #USA #Trump #Athreat #France

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