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Turkey – the ultimate crossroads

09/02/2015 by ORIENTAL REVIEW

I had no agenda other than to connect the future (the Eurasian Century) with the past (the crumbling European Union dream) via God’s favorite abode, the City of Cities; Constantinople, the New Rome. Just a Eurasia pilgrim on the move, absorbing those flows coming from the Balkans and ancient glorious Thrace; from the Black Sea and the […]

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Russia, Turkey pivot across Eurasia

09/12/2014 by ORIENTAL REVIEW / 1 comment

The latest, spectacular “Exit South Stream, Enter Turk Stream” Pipelinistan gambit will be sending big geopolitical shockwaves all across Eurasia for quite some time. This is what the New Great Game in Eurasia is all about. In a nutshell, a few years ago Russia devised North Stream – fully operational […]

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Cold Turkey: Ankara Buckles Against Western Pressure, Turns to Russia

02/12/2014 by Andrew KORYBKO / 10 comments

Russia has abandoned the troubled South Stream project and will now be building its replacement with Turkey. This monumental decision signals that Ankara has made its choice to reject Euro-Atlanticsm and embrace Eurasian integration. In what may possibly be the biggest move towards multipolarity thus far, the ultimate Eurasian pivot, Turkey, […]

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