Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a proposed government reshuffle put forward by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Russian state news agencies reported on Monday, citing the Kremlin. The personnel changes follow September’s
A strong effort was made by Washington and some NATO partners to see if Zelensky could be put on a peace track with Russia. The effort failed, and Zelensky’s visit to the
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I don’t know about you, but from the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I feel like I’ve been living in a kind of Back to the Future time warp, transported to 1940s headlines
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In a monumental leap forward for space exploration, the Embassy of The Russian Federation in Sri Lanka is elated to announce the triumphant launch of Russia’s “Luna-25” lunar spaceship. The spacecraft embarked
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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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No matter what pronunciamentos may come from Washington, the Russian government is expecting greater attacks on Russian territory, especially Moscow and maybe Russian ports, to try and destabilize the Putin government. The Pentagon says
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The three-day state visit on July 25-27 by Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, accompanied by a military delegation, to Pyongyang is the first-ever such high-level visit from Moscow in the post-Soviet era.
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The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of “demilitarisation” and “de-Nazification” of Ukraine wore a surreal look. The western narrative
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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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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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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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To be out of sync with the contemporary life anywhere at anytime becomes indeed a despairing situation. That was the tragic predicament of the Austrian writer of the inter-war period, Stefan Zweig,
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The former US president Donald Trump’s remarks regarding the failed coup attempt in Russia by Yevgeniy Prigozhin stood out for their sheer subtlety amidst the crass new western narrative that the dramatic
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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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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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