President
Abel Riu
Barcelona, 1986
Russia and Post-Soviet affairs
Abel Riu holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a master's degree in Russian and Eurasian Studies from the University of Uppsala, Sweden (UU). His field of specialization is Post-Soviet affairs, and he regularly collaborates with several Catalan and Spanish media. In recent years he has developed his career in the field of foreign relations in several institutions and international organizations.
Posts
Russia and Ukraine: the threat of war is real
24/12/2021
In October 2021, the CIA began to issue alarm signals regarding a build-up of Russian troops, weapons, and military equipment in the border area with Ukraine. The situation is reminiscent of spring 2021, with the difference that this time the size of the troop mobilization is much larger, with 122,000 troops some 200km from the […]
EU-Russia relations: time to break the stalemate?
02/04/2021
“A Common European Home from Lisbon to Vladivostok.” That was the vision of the last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. Thirty years after the breakup of the USSR, this dream is farther than ever, as the state of relations between the EU and Russia has reached its lowest point, with a […]
The Second Karabakh War and the new geopolitics in the South Caucasus
29/01/2021
2020 is gone, but it has been a year that set global dynamics in fast motion. The tectonic plates of a changing international order have continued to move, giving rise to the emergence of new conflicts and the reactivation of old, unresolved disputes, until recently, wrongly labeled as “frozen” by some analysts. This is the […]