The largest terrorist attack in modern history occurred a quarter-century ago when Al Qaeda operatives hijacked several planes and then crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Everyone remembers where they were on 9/11 when they...
Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev published a piece ahead of the 2026 BRICS Summit in Delhi about how “Non–Alignment No Longer Exists”. He argued that the West only tolerates the behavior of Global South countries like India that...
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk reacted to the AfD’s recent landslide victory in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt by claiming that “only idiots or traitors can rejoice”, pointing to “quite a few of them” in the conservative and libertarian-nationalist...
The Valdai Club published a piece by Fabiano Mielniczuk ahead of the 2026 BRICS Summit in Delhi. It’s titled “The Crisis Within BRICS Will Be Resolved Through ‘More BRICS’ - Pursued Autonomously, Gradually, and Patiently”. His argument is that...
Myanmarese Commander-in-Chief-turned-President Min Aung Hlaing visited Russia in late August for talks with Putin. While their military ties and “Declaration on the Ways and Means to Counter, Mitigate and Redress the Adverse Impacts of Unilateral Coercive Measures” took center...
Poland’s RMF24 cited the latest Eurostat data in early September to report that ~6,300 Ukrainian refugees left Poland in June followed by ~8,100 in July, so nearly a one-third increase over a single month, but these numbers are small...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga exploited the Leipzig false flag provocation to fearmonger that “Russia is already actively attacking Europe” and propose three policies as “the last chance for European governments to shield their own citizens, economies, and democratic...
JAMnews reported on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s visit to navy headquarters in early September, during which time he was “briefed on the purpose and tactical and technical specifications of the SALVO armed unmanned surface vessels (AUSVs) and KAYRA kamikaze...
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ call in mid-August to ban the issuance of EU visas to all Russians brought this issue back into the spotlight. Earlier in the summer, the EU declined to impose tougher visa restrictions in response...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi complained about Russia’s new monument to its 1945 war with Japan. Irish journalist Brian McDonald shared footage of it to “give a sense of its scale and prominent position overlooking the Amur River” in...
