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S. Radchenko, MT

A man is walking along the street sighing to himself "what a miserable life."

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Financial Times

Most parties battling for power in the Bundestag elections have ideas that unsettle the neighbours

Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor

Turkey's reconciliation with Egypt is not likely to be easy, but progress after the first high-level meeting between the two sides could mark a new course in Ankara's foreign policy and pave the way for its reconciliation with the Gulf heavyweights as well.

Kamran Bokhari, RealClearWorld

Geopolitics is a concept that is often invoked. Yet seldom does one find a serious piece of work that advances the conversation on the topic. Books on what an old colleague of mine refers to as ‘applied geopolitics' are even harder to come by. Hence my state of elation when I discovered Alexander V. Mirtchev's The Prologue: The Alternative Energy Megatrend in the Age of Great Power Competition.

Emily Stranger, RCWorld

As the United States draws up plans to leave Afghanistan, some factions inside the country are drawing up battle lines for the post-American phase. This includes the ethnic Hazaras, a Shiite minority that makes up an estimated 20% of the country's population. On April 13, pictures of Zulfiqar Omid, an Afghan politician once known for "his smiling eyes, bubbling laughter, and mastery of English," according to an unclassified Wikileaks report, began circulating across social media. Читать дальше...