“I believe that this kind of conflict is a failure of my generation, because we could not allow an open war in Europe, which may be only in the initial phase. We should have acted earlier and more decisively.”Sergey Karaganovin an interview with “BUSINESS Online” told whether a nuclear war is possible, whether there is a great danger for Russia to become a satellite of China and why our government opposes the creation of ideology.

News from the music world on Russian compositions and performers being featured in the main venues of Western Europe in the 2023-2024 season

Economy Minister Habeck urges policymakers to learn from past. Russia-Ukraine gas transit agreement due to expire next year.

The power dynamic in Northeast Asia is undergoing a dramatic change against the backdrop of the “no limits” strategic partnership between China and Russia. The collapse of Kiev’s counteroffensive” and abject defeat in the war with Russia may compel Biden administration to put “boots on the ground” in western Ukraine, triggering a global confrontation, and, equally, the US-China relations are at their lowest point since their normalisation in the 1970s, while Taiwan issue may potentially turn into a casus belli of war.

A world in which Western sanctions are routinely expected is one in which punitive measures will become increasingly ineffective

The phrase “The Emperor has no clothes” belongs to the folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, but variations of it have been adopted for use in many countries around the world. I’d leave it to economic, financial, and military experts to analyze what is going on in their respective fields, but when it comes to democracy and values, I have a feeling that this fairytale has become reality right here in the US.

“Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe.” – President Kennedy, 1961 Inaugural Address

Pablo González, a Spanish-Russian freelance journalist, is in a Polish prison, under investigation for spying for Russia. This would be unremarkable, except that Gonzalez had done news reporting work, including providing video from Ukraine, for Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. government’s overseas news outlet.

Biden’s favorite hawk calls for no end to the bloodshed in Ukraine

This morning, I had the pleasure of listening to a powerful conversation between the Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Alex Rubinstein who spoke with the National Endowment for Democracy’s Communications director Leslie Aun. The call occured because Ms. Aun disapproved of several Grayzone articles characterizing the NED as “a CIA cutout” and requested the call to clarify her claims that this was a mis-characterization. What followed was a delightful smackdown of reality by the two Grayzone journalists who had both a mountain of facts and brains at their disposal to deploy into the conversation