Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova recently expressed surprised that Turkiye is reselling a bunch of US-made weaponry to Ukraine. This includes “12 multiple rocket launch systems and more than 2,500 non-guided cluster munitions for them, as well as...
Polish Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk claimed that “It is precisely the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Grynkiewicz, as well as the US administration, who very often convey these appeals to the Polish government to provide missiles for Patriot...
Russian Ambassador to Argentina Dmitry Feoktistov shared some bad news about bilateral ties in mid-July. He told Izvestia that nuclear energy cooperation has been at a dead end since 2022 as a result of American sanctions despite them being...
RT translated and republished a recent article by Valdai Club Programme Director Timofey Bordachev about “Why the Mecca alliance may work in Russia’s favor”. His argument is that the Islamic NATO “complicates American strategy, encourages regional independence and places...
Germany’s publicly financed Deutsche Welle (DW) published an article in mid-August headlined “Eritrea, a rising power along a global shipping artery”. They rely mostly on the opinion of Abdurahman Sayed, director of the Horn of Africa Centre for Regional...
Trump unexpectedly announced that the US will “substantially reduce” its participation in the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield large-scale joint military drills with South Korea that he was apparently unaware of till just recently and which began this week. He...
Former Commander-in-Chief and incumbent Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Valery Zaluzhny recently lamented that the West spun “fairy tales” about his country joining NATO for 12 years, concluding that “we will never join!” He added that “Ukraine will (instead)...
Russian expert Farhad Ibgragimov published a piece at RT about “Why Erdogan won’t fight the West’s war against Russia”. His argument boils down to the Turkish leader’s vision of his country as a strategically autonomous and pragmatic center of...
Putin’s first-ever visit to the Kuril Islands during his trip to Iturup was harshly condemned by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi due to her country’s continued claims to that island and several others that Tokyo considers to be its...
The Taliban returned to power half a decade ago on 15 August 2021, so it’s timely to reflect on its standing at home and abroad. Nothing dramatic has happened on the home front: the Taliban remains firmly in control,...
