Russian archeologist Alexander Butyagin was part of a five-for-five swap involving Russia, Poland, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Romania, and Moldova organized by the US. As a reminder, he was detained late last year at Ukraine’s request while transiting through Poland on...
Russia’s Africa Corps played an indispensable role in helping Mali thwart last weekend’s terrorist coup attempt that killed its Defense Minister, injured its intelligence chief, and saw Tuareg rebels retake their traditional stronghold of Kidal. The crisis is ongoing,...
Swedish Chief of Defense Michael Claesson told The Times in mid-April that Russia might try to seize one of the Baltic’s 400,000 islands to test NATO’s response seeing as how all of the surrounding states except for Russia itself...
Saturday’s coordinated attacks across Mali by terrorist-designated Tuareg rebels in the rural north and Islamic terrorists in the urban areas, which were described as “unprecedented” by Al Jazeera and Le Monde, caught the government by surprise. This is in...
Russia’s legal information portal recently published the details of last year’s “Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Support” (RELOS) military logistics pact with India. RT’s Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retired) wrote a detailed analysis about it here, drawing attention to how...
Mali was rocked on Saturday by coordinated attacks across the country by terrorist-designated Tuareg rebels from the “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA per its French acronym) umbrella group in the rural north and “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) Islamic terrorists...
The Malian Foreign Minister recently withdrew his country’s recognition of the “Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic” and declared that it now supports Morocco’s Western Sahara autonomy plan. According to Reuters, “Morocco’s proposal would establish a local legislative, executive and judicial...
It was warned in February that “The US Might Make The Sahelian Alliance An Offer That It Can’t Refuse” during the then-upcoming trip of the US’ top diplomat for Africa to Bamako, the capital of the Alliance of Sahelian...
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which is regarded as the top authority on the international arms trade, released its latest report about related trends from 2021-2025 last month. The top takeaway is that “Europe was the region...
Donald just sparked another transatlantic scandal, but this time it was Tusk, not Trump. The Polish Prime Minister told the Financial Times that there are questions about the US’ loyalty to NATO in an insinuation that Trump would have...
