Core Desk
Geopolitics, CIS Diplomacy, Middle East, Sanctions, Conflict
Former foreign correspondent who covered three wars and four revolutions. Expelled from two countries. Carries a battered notebook everywhere even though she types everything.
20 articles · ~80 min total reading
While Brent climbs to $95.84 and the rouble holds at 70.90, the real story is who is rewriting the geography around Moscow — and who is letting them.
Kazakhstan is expanding rail capacity because Beijing has stopped trusting the southern route. The geography of Eurasian trade is being rewritten in real time.
Georgian Dream stages a domestic stunt to mark the boundary of permissible speech — timed, conveniently, to a State Department visit.
