Kamil Askerkhanov

Kamil Askerkhanov31.10.2026

Russia is sketching out a new energy order. Europe may not like it. At the Gas Exporting Countries Forum summit in Moscow, Vladimir Putin outlined what could become a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing the world’s energy producers: their dependence on transportation networks, transit routes, and the bargaining power of major buyers. […]

Kamil Askerkhanov29.10.2026

With so much contradictory information circulating about the October 27 telephone conversation between Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a few things are worth clarifying. First, Stubb and Støre were not speaking on behalf of the European Union. Not in the slightest. The official statement went […]

Kamil Askerkhanov27.10.2026

Part I. History offers some guidance. After the crash of 1929 and the banking crisis that followed, America’s economic system underwent a radical transformation. The state took on a much more active role in economic life. In 1933 Roosevelt’s administration created the Tennessee Valley Authority, a state-owned corporation charged with developing the energy and infrastructure […]

Kamil Askerkhanov26.10.2026

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In recent remarks by Donald Trump and Larry Fink, the boss of BlackRock, there is a striking contradiction—one that, in my view, ought to be read in the context of a looming global financial and structural economic crisis. Indeed, what is now taking shape increasingly resembles the sort of dynamics that preceded the Great Depression […]

Kamil Askerkhanov22.10.2026

Is a struggle for influence inside Ankara reshaping Turkey’s place in a changing world order? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently issued a striking warning. Great nations, he suggested, face great trials, and Turkey once again finds itself at the center of a broader geopolitical struggle. He cautioned that forces seeking to divide the region […]

Kamil Askerkhanov18.10.2026

The conflict in Ukraine is inexorably approaching its end. Yet the cessation of hostilities will leave behind questions far more complicated than those currently being discussed at the negotiating table. What political order will emerge in the region? Where will new borders be drawn? And what security architecture will take shape amid the ruins of […]

Kamil Askerkhanov13.10.2026

The past few days’ events make it worth returning to a concept I first outlined back in 2023: Europe’s energy ring-fencing. What we may now be seeing is the transition to a new stage. After restricting access to energy supplies, the battle appears to be shifting toward control over their eventual return to the European […]

Kamil Askerkhanov02.10.2026

What is happening in France has already grown into something larger than yet another confrontation between high-school and university students and the education authorities. The protests began with demands that were both familiar and readily understandable: teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and deteriorating school infrastructure. Yet within days, the unrest spread across the country and began […]

Kamil Askerkhanov29.09.2026

Bitcoin has always had a useful habit: it makes the supposedly virtual economy look stubbornly physical. JPMorgan recently estimated the cryptocurrency’s average production cost at roughly $85,000. According to The Block, citing the bank’s analysts, Bitcoin has spent around 280 days below that level. A sustained move above it could ease pressure on miners forced […]

Kamil Askerkhanov23.09.2026

As America’s midterm elections draw closer, the familiar numbers game is already underway. There is no point denying what the polls say: several national surveys do, in fact, show Democrats with an advantage. But the national generic ballot is not an election result. The House is decided across 435 individual congressional districts. The Senate is […]

The Gas Producers Strike Back

Every Nation for Itself—or the Rat Race Begins

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part II.

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part I.

Erdoğan’s Warning

Ukraine: From Nation-State to Diasporic Nation

Who Powers Europe?

France Is Burning. But Who Stands to Gain?

The Digital Economy Is Running Into the Physical World

America’s Election Talk

The Gas Producers Strike Back

The Republicans’ Closing Argument

Every Nation for Itself—or the Rat Race Begins

Russia’s American Temptation