Politico and other sources reported that CIA chief John Ratcliffe’s unannounced trip to Russia was primarily to warn it against testing NATO’s resolve through unspecified kinetic actions against the Baltic States, while this response here argued that it’s actually...
A Czech media investigation claimed that Russia was behind the recent disinformation campaign that tried to divide Poles and Czechs by fearmongering that Poland is plotting to regain what Poles consider to be Zaolzie. This refers to the disputed...
The European Parliament symbolically criticized Ukraine over the summer for its “unnecessary and provoked escalation” of tensions with Poland after Zelensky glorified the Volhynia Genocide’s OUN-UPA culprits at the state level. While the associated amendment to last year’s Commission...
The 35th anniversary of Ukrainian independence is a timely occasion to reflect on the last chance that it had to restore this in full. For background, “Putin Always Wanted A Truly Independent Ukraine” since he envisaged it complementing Russia’s...
RT republished another piece by Valdai Club’s Research Director Fyodor Lukyanov, this time about “What Russia learned from Putin and Trump in Anchorage”. These are that the US and the EU are divided over the extent of their support...
Polish Deputy Defense Minister Paweł Zalewski sparked a national scandal after ruling out the possibility of Poland hosting other countries’ nuclear weapons as part of its participation in NATO’s nuclear sharing program. This realistically only concerns American and French...
The Atlantic Council, which Russia designated as an “undesirable organization” in 2019, unsurprisingly published a piece in commemoration of Ukraine’s 35th anniversary of independence claiming that “Russia’s war will not end until Putin accepts Ukrainian independence”. The premise that...
Politico cited unnamed officials to report that CIA chief John Ratcliffe’s unannounced trip to Russia was primarily meant to warn it against testing NATO’s resolve through unspecified kinetic actions against the Baltic States. This follows Russia’s CIA analogue warning...
Russian officials’ reactions to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s defense of the Nord Stream bombing culprits drew attention to their country’s dearth of expertise on Poland. Here are the analyses that followed Dmitry Peskov’s, Maria Zakharova’s, and Putin’s responses....
Joint Secretary in the Indian Shipping Ministry, S. Venkatesapathy told the Arctic-Regions Forum in Arkhangelsk in mid-August that India will send its first cargo ship through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) next year. RT’s report informed readers that “For...
