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Geopolitics is not chess, but the analogy works. Vladimir Putin has been playing this game with his closest neighbours (Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan) for many years, but recently it seems, the West has finally engaged (much to the Russian President’s delight...

The problem with revolutionary times (and in case anyone was in doubt – Ukraine’s revolution continues) is that so many things happen simultaneously that it sometimes can be extremely difficult to keep track. Normally, to understand 70-80% of the salient politi...

Social networks and the global media are buzzing: what’s the plan? Are the Europeans about to decide Ukraine’s fate over the heads of the Ukrainians? And most importantly, why now? Yesterday and today Ukrainian public opinion is split between two emotions: distrust a...

A video has been released by the Islamic State group purporting to show the beheading of Kenji Goto. Circus Bazaar recently covered ISIL and the Japanese hostage situation, with statements from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the nation would do everything in their po...

The Islamic State group recently confirmed the beheading of Haruna Yukawa, one of the two Japanese hostages. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, believes the released images and voice recordings are genuine, and has called the act “an outrageous and unforgivable act ...

25 years after the beginning of the Romanian Revolution. I am standing in the University Plaza in Bucharest. My memory is channeling echoes of gun shots and student resistance; the smell of perspiration and burned candles; the murmur of songs buried into the cold asp...