Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was surprisingly critical in the remarks that he made during his participation in the SCO+ meeting that took place after the SCO leaders’ summit in Bishkek in early September. He declared that “People expect concrete...
Zelensky said that “we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, and everyone who still uses Russia’s key airports: Russian airspace is becoming completely unsafe. Ukraine does not threaten civilian aviation as such – not...
Germany blamed Russia for last month’s incident in Leipzig when one explosives-laden drone was found on the tarmac in proximity to Ukrainian cargo planes, another reportedly collided with a separate cargo plane as it tried to land but failed...
Algeria dispatched four Su-30 warplanes to the Nigerien capital of Niamey shortly after the failed mutiny there amidst the rapid intensification of their ties over the past year that saw Algiers donate four helicopters, two Mi-24V attack ones and...
Russian expert Farhad Ibragimov published a follow-up piece at RT about Russian-Turkish relations, the penultimate of which was responded to here at the time, in response to reports that it’s planning to export a large amount of US-produced cluster...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told local media that his country requested clarification from CIA chief John Ratcliffe during his trip to Moscow about whether the US is really still aiding Ukraine. In his words, “There was a question...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov published a piece about “International Cooperation in the Arctic: Challenges and Opportunities” ahead of the annual Eastern Economic Forum that’ll be held in Vladivostok this week. The timing suggests that he expects associated deals...
Trump announced over the weekend that the US and Venezuela had agreed to “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY”, which he boasted “secured majority U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela”...
The Jamestown Foundation, which has been banned in Russia for supporting separatism, published an intriguing piece in early August about the “NRF’s Potential to Launch an Anti-Taliban Counterinsurgency”. The NRF refers to the “National Resistance Front” led by Ahmed...
A failed mutiny just took place in Niger after some members of the military turned their guns against the Presidential Guard in the latest phase of those two institutions’ rivalry. Recent terrorist attacks against the capital’s airport by Islamic...
