Eurasia News

  After the death of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in August 2023, Russia’s African presence evolved along two tracks. Afrikansky Korpus , brought under the Ministry of Defence, absorbed Gruppa Wagner’s military footprint. Less visible yet strategically significant is African Initiative (Afrikanskaya Initiativa) , a Moscow-based agency launched in 2023 that embeds pro-Russian influence inside African civic life through NGOs, journalism schools, sport and health initiatives. Its advantage is credibility: narratives carried by locals are harder to dismiss as foreign. Afrikansky Korpus inherited Wagner’s guns; African Initiative inherited its narratives. Burkina Faso illustrates the method. During the severe 2023 dengue epidemic, a Russian medical delegation delivered screening kits and insecticides to Ouagadougou. At the same time, according to a joint assessment by the European External Action Service (EEAS), France’s foreign-interference watchdog VIGINUM and the Un...

Il Forum Economico Internazionale di San Pietroburgo ( SPIEF ) 2026 si è confermato uno degli eventi economici più rilevanti dell’anno, offrendo una fotografia delle principali trasformazioni in atto nell’economia russa e globale. L’edizione 2026 ha registrato la partecipazione di oltre 24.500 delegati provenienti da 142 Paesi e si è conclusa con la firma di 1.084 accordi per un valore complessivo di circa 6.640 miliardi di rubli . Numeri che testimoniano non solo la capacità del forum di attrarre investitori e partner internazionali, ma anche la crescente centralità della Russia nei nuovi processi di integrazione economica eurasiatica. Dall’adattamento alla crescita: il nuovo paradigma economico Uno dei messaggi più significativi emersi durante il forum è stato il passaggio da una fase di adattamento alle sanzioni e alle turbolenze geopolitiche a una strategia orientata alla crescita di lungo periodo. Nel corso della sessione plenaria è stato sottolineato che la trasformazione dell’e...

  T he celebration of 9 January as the  “ Day of Republika Srpska ”, despite rulings by the Constitutional Court of BiH declaring the holiday unconstitutional, represents an open violation of the constitutional order and serves as a tool of political mobilisation. The presence of uniformed forces, paramilitary symbols and foreign actors suggests that the event functions as a security and political spectacle rather than a cultural observance, intentionally raising tensions and provoking confrontation. Secessionist rhetoric can no longer be dismissed as a bluff; it is a real threat to stability, deepening social divisions, fuelling extremism and testing the limits of the international community’s tolerance. The promotion of secession ignores historical experience and obligations stemming from the Dayton Agreement , while the policies pursued by  Milorad Dodik  (SNSD) are leading to international isolation, growing security risks, increased Russian influence and the pot...