Sino-Russian ties are noticeably strengthening and will continue to strengthen so long as shared interests outweigh sticking points. Russia and China wrapped up the five-day bilateral military exercise Zapad/Interaction 2021 in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwestern China over […]

By John Helmer and Liane Theuerkauf via Philipp Jacoby, the only German doctor treating Alexei Navalny for alleged poisoning to have testified publicly, has given a new press interview to alter the interpretation of the evidence he gave last week. […]

China and Russia set to cement alliance with US withdrawal and existential common threat of jihad on their frontiers By David P. Goldman via“This is manifestly not Saigon,” said United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken as helicopters snatched fleeing […]

An ambitious scientific project is a rare chance for cooperation. By Ingrid Burke Friedman viaEven under a new U.S. administration, U.S.-Russian relations are chilly at best. U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin came away from their eagerly […]

If one scans this week’s headlines they are all gloom and doom, running from despair and humiliation to disaster and debacle. But rarely do you see calls for a fundamental reset of the failed U.S. foreign policy of perpetual wars […]

By Mike Eckel viaTypically this time of year, energy utilities across Europe are topping off their tanks, replacing old wires, locking in gas contracts, and doing the sort of routine maintenance needed to prepare for the coming winter.This year is […]

As expected, the blame game on who lost Afghanistan is now in full swing. I think the best answer was given by P. Michael McKinley, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, when he stated in Foreign Affairs magazine that it “is […]

By Glenn Diesen viaIn recent years, the media has become obsessed with purported Russian interference in US elections. While the claims turned out to be entirely unsubstantiated, the West itself openly engages in efforts to influence votes abroad.The difference is […]

By Marc Bennetts via The giant icebreaker Lenin now sits in a corner of the port of Murmansk, the world’s largest city within the Arctic Circle. From 1959 to 1989 this colossal vessel accompanied thousands of ships through over half […]

By M.K. Bhadrakumar viaThe Indian establishment media hyped up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 25 in a desperate attempt to distract attention from Delhi’s abject isolation over the Afghanistan situation.The desperation to clutch […]