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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 …

100 billion fund: NATO’s “security” against Trump?

11:58 12.04.2024 Andrey Kadomtsev

100 billion fund: NATO’s “security” against Trump?

Wary of the threat of a radical change of political wind in Washington, coupled with an acute shortage of funds to support the Kyiv regime, Western politicians have to look for ever more exotic “schemes” to finance the supply of arms and economic assistance to Kyiv. The British edition of …

Sweden on NATO’s scales: what is Ankara up to?

11:53 12.01.2024 Maria Kolesnikova

Sweden on NATO’s scales: what is Ankara up to?

On January 5-6, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Turkey. The results of the two-day visit did not receive much media coverage though. The topics discussed included the situation in Gaza, the Ukrainian conflict, trade, investments and security relations between the two countries and, of course, Ankara's support for …

Corruption in Ukraine as a supporting element of power

11:19 24.10.2023 Denis Baturin

Corruption in Ukraine as a supporting element of power

Ukrainian corruption came along concurrently with the establishment of the Ukrainian state and existed both on an international level - gas transportation, arms trade, etc., and within, serving as a supporting element of both government and society, a necessary condition for the social contract. The Ukrainians have first-hand knowledge and …

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