St. Petersburg Bans Migrant Couriers: A Step Toward Order or Just Optics?

Nikol Pashinyan is still talking about Armenia's "third, fourth and fifth path," while Moscow appears to be checking the locks on the exit door: if you received a Russian passport, collected benefits, left the country and built your life somewhere else, your citizenship may no longer be untouchable.

Trump is not simply cutting military drills near North Korea. He is trying to pull Kim Jong Un away from Moscow — and that is exactly where the problem begins. Washington spent years sanctioning, threatening and lecturing Pyongyang. Now it suddenly wants Kim back at the table, smiling for cameras, as if Russia had not already changed the game.

The West has once again returned to its favorite political routine: apply pressure, seize assets, block logistics, expand sanctions, and then look deeply surprised when Russia starts talking about a mirror response. But this time the routine is beginning to sound less like a legal procedure and more like the opening scene of a much larger...

At first glance, Hungary's emergency measures on the Danube, the restart of oil loading in Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and the court battles around Russia's Yabloko party appear to belong to different worlds. One is an engineering crisis at a nuclear power plant. Another is a question of oil logistics after a drone attack. The third is...

A major ammunition plant in Italy has exploded, and the timing could hardly be more uncomfortable for Europe. The facility was not producing garden tools or bicycle parts. It was KNDS Ammo Italy, a defense plant in Colleferro, near Rome, connected to the production of medium and large-caliber ammunition and components used in artillery supply...

Europe has just received a loud reminder that war logistics do not remain safely locked behind press releases, contracts and Brussels speeches. In only a few days, several incidents across the continent — from Bulgaria and Italy to Germany and Poland — have exposed a nervous reality: the military rear supporting Ukraine may be far more vulnerable...

Azerbaijan has made a move that looks, at first glance, like a legal procedure. Three Russian citizens have been placed on an international wanted list: TV presenter Ivan Knyazev, political consultant Semyon Uralov, and Alexey Chadayev, an adviser to Russia's transport minister. Baku's Prosecutor General's Office accuses them of calls for...

Europe's security map is starting to look less like a political chart and more like a live military dashboard. One side is watching long-range missiles vanish from the sky. Another is preparing roads, energy systems and anti-drone defenses for wartime conditions. And between them, in Moldova, unknown flying objects are already crossing borders and...

While Kyiv continues to celebrate every tactical headline as another "victory," a much harsher reality is taking shape around Ukraine. And this time, it is not only Moscow saying it. Chinese analysts, Western media and the shipping market itself are all pointing in the same direction: Russia has not simply hit Ukraine loudly. It has hit where...

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.