Washington shouldn’t be surprised, after years of building and leading security bulwarks against both countries.

Uncertainty rears its ugly head again in foreign affairs.

In the near term, the collective West will remain a serious military-political and regulatory challenge for Russia. Overestimation of the degree of its extinction and underestimation of the existing potential are fraught with complications in the implementation of Russian national interests, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Ivan Timofeev.

The U.S. Air Force’s 40-year-old B-1 bombers don’t have much time left. Worn out by the air campaigns over Iraq and Afghanistan, the B-1s are in line for replacement as the USAF’s new B-21 stealth bombers enter service over the next decade.

A move to ditch oil-linked gas contracts paid off when gas was in ample supply but will cost EU members an estimated $30 billion this year.

Vladimir Putin took part in a plenary session of the 18th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

he day of “colour revolution” seems to be running out. The mechanics are noticed and countered, Patrick Armstrong writes.

Amid Russia-NATO turmoil, the foreign ministers of Russia, Norway and Finland will meet in Tromsø on October 26 to discuss regional cooperation in Europe’s northern territories. Ann Linde, however, is not coming as she is hosting a NATO seminar in Stockholm the same day. Jens Stoltenberg, son of Barents founder Thorvald Stoltenberg, is prominent in the NATO program in Sweden.

It’s 10 years since NATO hammered defenceless Libya and French jets drove the mercurial President Muammer Gadhafi into a drainage tunnel where members of a mob killed him.

The gas crisis in Europe has added yet another dimension to a global crisis, with many well-known experts predicting that the worst is still to come.