It’s unbelievable to hear from various sources how an ancient country is being dismantled. Israel, the USA, and Turkey act like jackals feasting on a carcass, each tearing off a piece for themselves, exploiting the infighting between local Shias...
Publicly financed Russian media’s reaction to Syria’s regime change is a lot different than most could have expected after they earlier warned that this could lead to an unprecedented terrorist crisis. Those concerns were warranted since Turkish-backed Harat Tahrir...
The visit of Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh to Russia this week highlights these decades-long strategic partners’ evolving defense ties. It was already explained in March how “Russian-Indian Relations Are Moving Beyond Their Prior Military-Centricity” as India seeks to...
Trump posted twice thus far about Russia and Syria at the time of this analysis’ publication. His full messages can be read here and here, but what follows are the relevant excerpts as they pertain to those two. Here’s...
Lavrov’s interview with Tucker mostly saw him elaborate on Russia’s stance towards the proxy war with NATO in Ukraine, which built upon what he shared during his earlier and more concise interview with Newsweek in early October that was...
Lavrov confirmed to Tucker that he plans to meet with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts on the sidelines of this weekend’s Doha Forum. This upcoming session of their Astana format will likely represent the last chance for a political...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently met with President Donald Trump to discuss technology policy under his upcoming administration. According to Sir Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, Zuckerberg aims to actively participate in shaping technology policy, focusing primarily...
The world is trying to make sense of South Korea’s six-hour -long period of martial law that was imposed on Tuesday night until early Wednesday morning local time. It was the first time that the country experienced such since...
VEB Fund and money laundering
1. In the last years of the Soviet Union, foreign currency transfers were carried out centrally by the Foreign Bank of the Soviet Union (Vnešekonombank, from now on VEB Bank) throughout the former USSR. In...
The Georgian capital of Tbilisi has been beset by increasingly violent unrest as the foreign-backed opposition desperately seeks to overturn the outcome of fall’s parliamentary elections. They were won by the ruling Georgian Dream party, which is comprised of...
