New on the Blog This Week

When politicians start playing games with energy, it's never just economics — it becomes survival. And right now, the European Union is balancing on the edge of a full-blown internal crisis, all over one key player: Russia.

It sounds like a bad joke, but it's official.
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a package of agreements with the United States during his recent visit to the White House — and the contents have stunned experts, including those in Uzbekistan itself.

The apartment was sold. Money paid. Deal confirmed. Then suddenly — reversed.
And now, the buyer is left with nothing, while the seller keeps both the property and her reputation.
This is not a script for a legal thriller — it's a real case in Moscow involving Russian pop diva Larisa Dolina, and her buyer,...

It all started with a gate. Now the whole country is stuck behind it

"Work longer — earn more." Sounds like a motivational slogan, right?
But when a State Duma deputy says: "Delay retirement for ten years and your pension will double," it stops being motivation — and starts sounding like black comedy.

He didn't steal.
He didn't kill.
He didn't incite violence.

🎭 When a Joke Turns Into a Crisis

This hasn't happened in years. If ever.
The Investigative Committee of Russia has just pulled the pin on a political grenade — and thrown it straight into the heart of the country's judicial system.
We're talking about something almost unthinkable: a request to open criminal cases against six judges.

The Caribbean Sea, once home to pirates and smugglers, has turned into a silent stage for geopolitical maneuvering.
At the center of the latest drama — the Russian-linked tanker Seahorse, reportedly blocked by a US Navy destroyer near Venezuelan waters.

Kazakhstan handed over the metal without which American missiles don't fly and tanks don't fire. Voluntarily. With a smile. And probably to the wrong side of the chessboard.

Russia is bringing back an old idea — one that even the Soviet Union once shelved:
Redirecting the waters of Siberia's Ob River to Central Asia.

November 11 became a dark day for the Turkish Air Force. A C-130 "Hercules" military transport aircraft crashed in eastern Georgia, near the town of Sighnaghi — just a few kilometers from the Azerbaijani border. All twenty people on board perished.

First one dropped out. Then the second. Then the third.
The upcoming G20 summit in South Africa now looks like a global parody. Once envisioned as a forum for the world's most powerful leaders, it's unraveling before it begins.