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EU leaders may cheat Trump by walking back their pledge to ramp up defense spending - Shoigu

11:57 17.07.2025

EU leaders may cheat Trump by walking back their pledge to ramp up defense spending - Shoigu

In an interview with the newspaper Kommersant, Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that the authorities of European countries may deceive US President Donald Trump and fail to fulfill their obligations to increase defense spending. “It is no coincidence that the initial figures of the new defense budget will …

Georgia: “We will not tolerate arbitrariness and violence against us”

12:56 03.07.2025 Yuri Larin

Georgia: “We will not tolerate arbitrariness and violence against us”

Although the anti-government protests in Georgia, which have been going on for over 200 days following last year’s parliamentary elections, are gradually waning, they haven't ceased completely as they continue to receive external support in the form of actions and statements from Western backers and supporters of the country’s previous …

Will Trump distance himself from Ukrainian conflict?

11:58 11.06.2025 Alexander Gusev

Will Trump distance himself from Ukrainian conflict?

According to The New York Times (NYT), US President Donald Trump has decided to back down from his earlier commitments to end the conflict in Ukraine. Many experts with close links to the White House see this as a sign of Trump demonstrating his intention to distance himself from the …

US-Israel: a chill shift in relations

12:34 30.05.2025 Andrey Kadomtsev

US-Israel: a chill shift in relations

US President Donald Trump has called on Israel to refrain from any actions that might disrupt his administration's efforts to resolve the situation around the nuclear deal with Iran. Trump said that it was not a warning, adding, however, that “this would be inappropriate to do right now,” that US …

Lavrov calls out Washington’s biased view on coups in Gambia and Ukraine

12:00 22.05.2025

Lavrov calls out Washington’s biased view on coups in Gambia and Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that the US authorities opposed the attempted coup in Gambia in 2014, while supporting a similar event in Ukraine, TASS reported. “Speaking of the United States, in 2014, shortly after February, there was an attempted coup in Gambia. If you want to know …

Europe and security guarantees for Ukraine

11:46 20.12.2024 Alexander Gusev

Europe and security guarantees for Ukraine

Despite the fact that during the July 2024 NATO summit in Washington, 23 member countries and Japan, which joined them, decided to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, in Europe itself, active discussions on this issue continue unabated. I think that each time a firecracker explodes during the pre-Christmas week, ordinary …

Zelensky – does Trump really need him?

9:04 16.11.2024 Denis Baturin

Zelensky – does Trump really need him?

Photo: AP The interregnum period in the United States may bring turmoil to Ukraine. Not only is the time of lucrative tours of Europe and North America for the illegitimate Zelensky apparently over, save for just few and far between trips, but no one has freed him from his obligation …

Apocalypse of Our Time: Servants of the Devil Before the Court of History

23:59 23.08.2024 Konstantin Dolgov

Apocalypse of Our Time: Servants of the Devil Before the Court of History

The first two articles of the cycle, “Apocalypse of Our Time: The Face and the Underbelly of Western Culture and Civilization” and “Apocalypse of Our Time: Alter Ego of the Third Reich,” appeared in International Affairs Vol. 69, No. 6 (2023), pp. 30-57. I would like to express my sincere …

The South Caucasus in Washington’s playbook

11:30 13.08.2024 Alexander Ananiev

The South Caucasus in Washington’s playbook

On the last day of July, a number of news agencies reported that the United States wanted to establish a transport route for Central Asian countries via Armenia and Azerbaijan to access world markets, bypassing Russia and China. What those reports did not mention, however, was the context in which …

Beware of American “help”, or how the US undermined European energy security

11:52 13.05.2024 Andrey Kadomtsev

Beware of American “help”, or how the US undermined European energy security

According to a Bloomberg report, despite the “record” volumes of gas in European storage facilities, energy experts there are in no rush to breathe a sigh of relief as traders worry about “possible fuel shortages next winter.” One of the important reasons for the decline in the energy security of …

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