Moscow's cooperation with Tehran seems strange, primarily because Russia's political interests in this regard are almost completely at odds with its economic interests, writes columnist Yulia Zhuchkova.

The new geopolitical phenomenon of "unrecognized states" has appeared only in the last 40 years. This phenomenon did not exist 100 years ago when the world was divvied up between the colonial ...

Russia's political and economic alliances with its neighbors in the post-Soviet space are delivering little more than mutual disappointment, writes columnist Yulia Zhuchkova.