While the dogs of demonization bark, Russia’s newfangled armaments are flat out beating the competition By Pepe Escobar viaThe annual MAKS aerospace show kicked off its 2021 installment at Zhukovsky Airport outside Moscow – not with a bang, but with […]

The Biden-Putin summit has elicited hopes for a new status quo in relations between Russia and the West, marked by guardrails and the prevention of further destabilization. Yet this momentum will be short-lived if it is not backed up by […]

Afghanistan was the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War, and its effects on the Russian psyche still linger. So the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan brings more than just strategic concerns to the Kremlin. By Fred Weir viaAn iconic set of images from […]

By James W. Carden viaOn Thursday afternoon, US president Joe Biden met with outgoing German chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House. By most accounts the hour long meeting was a cordial affair. Said Biden right before the meeting, “The […]

By Jonny Tickle viaMoscow has agreed to allow state-of-the-art domestically made rocket engines to be sold to the US, despite Washington’s sanctions against Russian industry that are significantly hampering the ability of the country’s space agency.According to Roscosmos, the government’s […]

How the ideas of a 20th century thinker ostracized by the Soviets help to shape Russia’s new foreign policy By Piotr Dutkiewicz viaIn recent years, Vladimir Putin has mentioned several times the ideas of Lev Gumilev – one of the […]

Ukraine’s strongman interior minister is gone, but chaos & scandal in the troubled nation is here to stay By Tarik Cyril Amar via“Revolutions” are a messy business and, once they’ve started, it isn’t always clear when they end. Is it […]

By Scott Ritter viaThe Russian vote at the UN Security Council in favor of extending a humanitarian air corridor into Syria has been touted by the US government as a victory of American diplomacy. Moscow might have other ideas.In a […]

By Simon Saradzhyan viaVladimir Putin has just signed off on Russia’s new National Security Strategy. As with any such strategic document, it is useful to compare it to its predecessor, if only to identify key changes in the Kremlin’s vision […]

The State Department is discouraging Americans from traveling there and making it harder for Russians to come here. By Stephen Kinzer via“Travel is fatal to prejudice,” Mark Twain trenchantly observed after a lifetime of wandering. The US State Department seems […]