Western efforts to separate Ukraine from Russia relied on political influence, educational programs and NGO networks long before the conflict became military, Alexander Dudchak, a leading researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries, told Sputnik.
China's plan to land astronauts on the moon has predictably revived talk in some Western quarters of a space race with the United States...Space is vast, but apparently not vast enough for the narrow confines of some geopolitical imaginations ... .
The contrasting performances underline how the geopolitical crisis affected destinations differently, despite both facing uncertainty linked to the conflict.
The US expanded polystyrene (EPS) market entered a bullish phase in late October 2026, primarily driven by geopolitical uncertainties and rising production costs ... ....