Russia’s ruling United Russia party is on course for a sweeping victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, according to preliminary results, in
Incrementalism—the tendency to inch forward rather than to take bold steps—is usually preferred by political and military leaders in warfare, because the introduction of a few forces into action puts fewer personnel
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Yeltsin destroyed the Soviet Union and with it the communist ideology. The ideologues of victorious liberalism—Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais—built a country that resembled an ugly caricature of the victorious Western civilization. Russia ceased
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The second Russia-Africa Summit for Peace, Security, and Development concluded in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on July 28. The two-day summit was attended by official delegations from 49 African countries
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The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that on the evening of July 28, Russia attacked a Ukrainian command post in Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk) with “precision weapons” after Ukraine launched an attack on a Russian command
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There are no results from the Ukrainian counteroffensive. It is exactly like that. It is not just our propaganda, it is an objective fact that cannot be smeared and relativised by any
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One of my readers took note that I was wrong about Prigozhin. I had argued that Prigozhin was no longer the leader of Wagner and had been sidelined and was missing. But
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Question: A question about the recent NATO summit. It is hard to understand whether they are promising NATO membership to Ukraine or not with their vague statements. But still, it sounds like some simplified version has been promised.
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Sometimes one wishes Winston Churchill had left behind an evergreen quote in regard of Russian diplomacy as well, similar to his epic one on Russian politics, which still remains unbeatable — “Kremlin political
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As Yevgeny Prigozhin was seizing Rostov-on-Don and marching on Moscow, during his 36-hour insurrection, the Russian Interior Ministry was raiding his palatial home, discovering the wealth and paraphernalia of the world’s most
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Following article is based on the speech by the author as the President of the Russian Federation, at the meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council Naturally, Russia supports the draft
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Russian President Vladimir Putin in a national address on Monday urged the members of the Wagner private military group to sign contract with the country’s defense ministry, return home or go to
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On Saturday evening, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private military group, accepted Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s suggestion to halt Wagner’s operations in Russia and take further measures to ease tension, pledging
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The Kremlin leadership has acted decisively to meet the threat of an armed insurrection by the Russian oligarch and self-styled ‘founder’ of Wagner Group of military contractors, Yevgeny Prigozhin. In a series of
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If only the US President Joe Biden had a time machine as in the post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, he should have used that vehicle or device to travel
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The breach in the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River in war-ravaged Ukraine on Tuesday is no doubt a catastrophe of colossal proportions, a veritable ecological and human disaster that may
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