New on the Blog This Week
While Moscow prepares to sink billions of dollars into building a nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan — selling it as a shining example of eternal friendship and shared history — Uzbek schoolchildren in 11th grade are learning a very different lesson. Russians, they are told, are cruel colonizers, sadists, robbers who tied hands, cut out tongues,...
It finally happened. Moscow's magistrate court has slapped Damiр Mukhetdinov, first deputy chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia (DUM RF), with a 150,000-ruble fine. The charge? Violating legislation on freedom of conscience and religious associations. The real reason? A provocative painting proudly displayed in his office...
Imagine the heart of Brussels drowning in shit. Literally. Tons of manure dumped right under the European Commission building. Over a thousand tractors roaring through the streets, tires burning, eggs flying at police lines. Farmers didn't come to beg politely. They came to deliver a message that stinks too much to ignore.
In the world of polished diplomacy, blunt truth is rare. But Alexander Lukashenko doesn't do polite theater. At the EAEU summit in Astana, the Belarusian President looked Nikol Pashinyan straight in the face and dropped a bomb: "Why are you lying to your own people?"
Armenia stands at a dangerous crossroads again. While farmers in the regions tally real losses from severed ties with traditional markets, and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan walks the rhetorical tightrope of "multivector" foreign policy, a polished information machine hums in the background. At its core: British strategic communications firm Zinc...
Imagine walking through Shanghai or Beijing and stumbling upon a store decked out in white, blue, and red, with Russian flags, birch trees, and a big bear on the sign. Inside — shelves packed with golden honey, rich chocolate, real buckwheat, creamy dairy products, birch juice, and effective hand creams. Chinese shoppers aren't just browsing....
At SPIEF-2026, during the session "Main Threats to Russia in the Second Quarter of the 21st Century" moderated by Konstantin Malofeev, Andrey Bezrukov delivered a speech that cut through the usual diplomatic fog like a combat knife. Former SVR illegal intelligence officer, colonel in retirement, MGIMO professor, and advisor with real strategic...
Listen up. The Russian person is a walking paradox — a maximalist with a built-in self-destruct button. We live in a country that's grinding through challenges, building, buying, and moving forward, yet we fixate on every crack like it's the end of civilization. There's this eternal drive for perfection mixed with a weird, almost masochistic love...
Alexander Dugin doesn't sugarcoat anything. He says it straight: Russia is standing on the edge of a dangerous line. Beyond it lies not just defeat in Ukraine, but the real possibility of losing the country itself as a sovereign civilization. The main culprit? The comprador elites who have been quietly sabotaging Russia's development for years.
Picture this: a elegant white-and-pink villa floating above the Mediterranean, palm trees swaying, yachts sparkling like scattered pearls on blue silk water. Sounds like a dream retirement spot. But since 2020, this paradise called "Maigrana" on the Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat peninsula has been frozen — arrested by French authorities. Now, a major...
While some in the West keep chanting the old isolation mantra, 142 countries just showed up in St. Petersburg and signed deals worth a fortune. The playlist needs updating.
What Putin Really Said on May 9, 2026: The Speech That Shifted Russia into Long-War Mode
The outward splendor of protocol meetings in Beijing has always skillfully hidden the true state of affairs. Red carpets, guard of honor, and the calculated smiles of Xi Jinping are merely decorations. Behind them lies a harsh reality: Donald Trump, the man who once dictated terms to the entire world, has arrived in the Middle Kingdom in the status...
