Biden’s recent statements about Putin’s “killer without a soul” do not teach us much about Russia. Τhey teach us about America itself. In a peculiar way, they confirm the profound decline of the United States in particular, and the failure […]

by Yves Smith via Yves here. It’s noteworthy that a mainstream venue like The Conversation would run a piece that describes how the Biden approach to China and Russia is backfiring. While the press spoke in almost one voice against […]

The world’s biggest energy exporter—and home to billions of trees—is coming under international pressure over emissions ahead of United Nations climate change talks later this year. By Dina Khrennikova, Laura Millan Lombrana, and Ilya Arkhipov via Much of Russia’s Far […]

‘European’ identity is collapsing in the continent’s largest country, with the youth leading the charge By Glenn Diessen via Russians have come to realise that the ‘Europe’ they earnestly sought to integrate with after the Soviet collapse no longer exists. […]

As negative views of China grow among those in the United States, Russians have overwhelmingly positive views of their neighbor, recent surveys reported. A survey conducted jointly by the Chicago Council think tank and the Moscow-based Levada Center polling firm […]

Via BBC Mentions of Navalny’s name – let alone his images or voice – are a rarity on state TV — Rossiya 1 Russian TV is extremely reluctant to mention the name of the country’s protest leader Alexei Navalny, only […]

There’s a vintage feel about the events taking place today but for all their superficial similarities it would be a mistake to revert to old assumptions By Mary Dejevsky Via Independent Shut your eyes, and you could almost be back […]

Via Moon of Alabama  Earlier today police in Europe took down the Emotet bot-network: “First discovered as a fairly run-of-the-mill banking trojan back in 2014, Emotet evolved over the years into one of the most professional and resilient cyber crime […]

By Edward Lozansky The latest news about CATO, the libertarian think tank, firing its senior fellow Andrei Illarionov, a former economic advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin since turned into one of his fiercest critics, brought to me some decades-old […]

By Glenn Diesen Via Russia Times Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce the ideologically driven base of US foreign policy fuelled great resentment among those who believed it betrayed Washington’s leadership position in the so-called “liberal international order.” Now that power […]