Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin swept through Ankara last month. During Putin's one day visit on August 6, a total of twenty agreements, eight of which were between the private sector, were signed. Putin and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also inked bilateral protocols on natural gas and oil cooperation. Read more

At the end of every major war, the dominant powers of that era initiate a new effort to establish a new world order. The Peace of Westphalia after the 30 Years War, the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic Wars, the League of Nations after the First World War and the United Nations after the Second World War are all manifestations of these new efforts. Read more

"I would say that the Straits are the heart of Turkey. The Straits, at the same time, are the lungs of Romania. When a region, due to its geographic location, is the heart of one nation and the lungs of the other, simple wisdom dictates to these two nations to unite and form a whole. Read more

Contraria contraiis curantur
After having its first geopolitical transformation in the late 20th century with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Black Sea region started to experience its second phase of geopolitical transformation in the early 21st century with the entrance of the Euro-Atlantic World's - NATO and the European Union (EU) - into the region. Read more

The Georgian presidential election held on 5th January 2008 Saturday was won by the incumbent Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili crossed the 50% electoral threshold necessary to be elected in the first round. Read more