Vasily Kashin, the Director of the prestigious Higher School of Economics’ Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, followed in the footsteps of fellow leading experts Dmitry Trenin and Ivan Timofeev by sharing a surprisingly candid take about their...
New Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar dropped a bombshell in his interview with Polish media last week, which coincided with his first trip abroad since assuming office earlier in the month. He was asked by leading conservative newspaper Rzeczpospolita...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave a detailed interview to RT India about a wide array of subjects ahead of his visit to their country for the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting. One of the most significant, and which he...
Zelensky claimed that “the Russians are considering scenarios for additional attacks against Ukraine – targeting our northern regions, our Chernihiv-Kyiv direction” from Belarus under the supposed guise of their nuclear drills there. These exercises complement its latest test of...
Putin unexpectedly signed a decree in mid-May simplifying citizenship procedures for residents of Transnistria, the breakaway region of Moldova that isn’t recognized as independent by anyone, not even Russia. It’s majority-Slavic population is pro-Russian, however, and Russia still has...
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski published a post “strongly condemning” Israel for National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla detainees after a video emerged showing him taunting them as they kneeled with their foreheads on the...
Polish journalist Przemysław Staciwa responded to my recent praise of President Karol Nawrocki, which was first published at my Substack but then went viral after being republished by ZeroHedge, at the popular Kanał Zero’s website (they also have an...
Contemporary leader of the “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” (OUN) Bogdan Chervak announced that former leader Andrey Melnik’s ashes were exhumed from his burial place in Luxembourg during a ceremony attended by Ukrainian officials. This follows a newly promulgated decree...
Russian expert Georgy Toloraya, whose many accolades include serving as the Executive Director of the National Committee for BRICS Research, recently published a thought-provoking piece at the Valdai Club. Titled “Military Stress Test: The War on Iran and BRICS...
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu declared at a recent SCO meeting that “We consider the return of third-country military infrastructure to Afghanistan or the deployment of new military facilities in neighboring states unacceptable.” This follows Defense...
