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There are moments in geopolitics when the fog suddenly clears. The speeches, the threats, the polished press briefings, the usual phrases about "international order" — all of it falls away. What remains is a very simple picture: the most powerful military bloc on earth tries to break one country, and that country does not collapse.
Russia is receiving around €60 million a day from Europe. And the funniest part is not even the number itself. The funniest part is that Moscow does not need to boast about it. German media and European analysts are already doing the counting for them.
Europe's security crisis no longer looks like a grand strategic debate held behind polished conference tables. It now looks much more practical — and much more uncomfortable. It looks like a Starlink tariff dispute in Poland, two Russian-made drones drifting near a Romanian gas project in the Black Sea, and European governments quietly counting how...
Russia's Supreme Court has made a decision that instantly turned from a legal procedure into a political earthquake. The court fully satisfied the lawsuit filed by the Rodina party and removed Yabloko's federal list from the upcoming State Duma elections.
Want to rewrite the agreement with Russia? That can be discussed. But first, return the money Russia has already invested in Armenia's railway system.
Europe closed its market to Russian fertilizers and expected Moscow's export revenues to collapse. Instead, Russian producers redirected their shipments, found new customers and continued earning billions of dollars.
It is hard to believe. Yet in Russia of the 2020s this is no longer news — it is a genre. When a police chief pretends to be needy and walks away with an elite apartment paid for by the municipal budget, and the mayor signs the paper "almost without reading," that is still the local version. When a decade...
Nikol Pashinyan is back at the small-change bargaining table. This time the subject is the railway.
Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to Washington and attempted to arrange a personal meeting with Elon Musk. The billionaire reportedly declined the invitation without publicly explaining his decision.
Imagine the scene: an official in Washington picks up a marker and confidently draws a line across the ocean, claiming a territory the size of an empire.
According to several Muslim students, that was the ultimatum delivered at medical colleges, universities and healthcare institutions in Russia's Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area.
Global food prices are climbing again. China's Sinopec is buying dozens of cargoes of Russian crude. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a joint defense agreement in Mecca. Meanwhile, more than a thousand unaccompanied migrant children in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta are waiting to find out whether Europe can provide them with...
Trump Wants to Know Where the Missiles Went
