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bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – How effective are Ukraine’s drone strikes at destroying Russian refinery production?
Ukraine’s escalating drone campaign against Russia’s oil infrastructure has triggered an increasingly bitter debate over just how much damage Kyiv is inflicting on one of the...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – The EU's enlargement dilemma
The European Union is engaged in its most consequential debate on enlargement in a generation, as Russia’s war in Ukraine and mounting internal divisions force policymakers to reconsider how,...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – The return of the Silk Road as the “C6”
The new geography of Eurasia is being drawn across a vast east-west corridor stretching from western China to Europe through Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan and Turkey. Freight trains depart...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Great powers’ competing agendas for the Western Balkans
The United States has unveiled a new strategy for the Western Balkans centred on economic partnerships and countering Chinese and Russian influence, just as Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vucic,...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Mass protest in Serbia ends in violent clashes with police
Tens of thousands of protesters converged on Belgrade’s Slavija Square at the weekend demanding early elections and an end to President Aleksandar Vučić’s more than decade-long rule,...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – The baby bust
A decade ago, the dominant demographic cliché was that of “dying Russia”: a vast post-Soviet state trapped in a spiral of low birth rates, alcoholism, collapsing public health and...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – COMMENT: Russia and China deepen strategic alignment as partnership reaches “highest level in history”
Putin and Xi’s new world order and the Etch-a-Sketch end of the pax Americana...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Putin and Xi deepen anti-West axis
Putin in...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Cuba armed with Russian and Iranian drones discussed strikes on US soil, leaked files show
Cuba acquires drones, threatens to strike...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Ukraine strikes Moscow in the biggest drone attack of the war
Ukraine and Russia bludgeon each...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Trump forced to eat humble pie in Beijing
Trump eats humble pie in...
FIXED LINKS: bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Hungary's new government formed in record time
Hungary’s political landscape changed decisively this week as Peter Magyar formally took office on May 12, completing the fastest government formation since the country’s democratic...