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Sergey Ryabkov: Russia’s INF deployment moratorium coming to end

11:43 09.06.2025

Sergey Ryabkov: Russia’s INF deployment moratorium coming to end

The existence of Russia’s moratorium on the deployment of intermediate and shorter-range missiles (INF Treaty) is coming to its logical end as the West did not appreciate Moscow’s move, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview with TASS. He noted that under the Trump administration, the US …

‘Asia Times’: Civilizational multipolarity in a post-Pax Americana world

11:42 09.06.2025

‘Asia Times’: Civilizational multipolarity in a post-Pax Americana world

New order sees states derive legitimacy from deep structures of language, religion and institutional memory rather than universal norms, stresses ‘The Asia Times’. In 2016, Singapore’s then-Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen was asked in Parliament how the country would respond if the United States were to pull back from its …

WP: As Trump meets U.S. allies, America’s friends see a new world order

11:42 09.06.2025

WP: As Trump meets U.S. allies, America’s friends see a new world order

When President Donald Trump first barreled into office in 2017, he was the disrupter among world leaders, many of whom sought to wait out what they hoped would be a four-year blip in U.S. history. Now, as he prepares for a weeks-long blitz of encounters with Washington’s historic allies that …

‘The New Statesman’: Britain still helps shipping Russian crude oil, oil products and LNG

11:40 09.06.2025

‘The New Statesman’: Britain still helps shipping Russian crude oil, oil products and LNG

British companies continue to play a significant part in Russia’s economy of oil and gas, ‘The New Statesman’ informs. New research shared exclusively with the New Statesman has found that since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, more than £200bn in Russian fossil fuel exports have been shipped using UK-based maritime services. …

View from Washington: “In the West, this is an era of fantasy foreign policy – determined propagandists can now fool most of the people most of the time”

10:12 08.06.2025

View from Washington: “In the West, this is an era of fantasy foreign policy – determined propagandists can now fool most of the people most of the time”

Over three decades, Russia consistently asked how to construct a peaceful order in Europe. The West’s adamant refusal to address the issues of concern to Russia finally provoked it to go to war. One of Russia’s questions has found a costly answer in that war. The West now has no …

Big investors shift away from US markets: It is “a wake-up call to a lot of people that they were overweight the US”

10:10 08.06.2025

Big investors shift away from US markets: It is “a wake-up call to a lot of people that they were overweight the US”

Big institutional investors are shifting away from US markets as Donald Trump’s trade wars and the country’s escalating debt fuel fears about the dominance of American assets in global portfolios, writes ‘Financial Times’. The US president’s erratic trade policy has shaken global markets in recent months, sparking a sharp sell-off …

‘The WIRED’: Auto Shanghai 2025 wasn’t just a Car Show – it was a warning to the West

10:06 08.06.2025

‘The WIRED’: Auto Shanghai 2025 wasn’t just a Car Show – it was a warning to the West

After poaching some of the best Western auto talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally with charging rates, ranges, luxury design, technology, and sheer volumes, writes ‘The WIRED’, which ‘illuminates how technology and innovations are changing every aspect of our lives.’ The Chinese car industry has latest opportunity …

FBI Director Kash Patel called “Russiagate” the “most extensive political criminal scheme” of the FBI and the intelligence community, coordinated with the media

10:04 08.06.2025

FBI Director Kash Patel called “Russiagate” the “most extensive political criminal scheme” of the FBI and the intelligence community, coordinated with the media

The bureau director Patel says that surveillance of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign began with a warrant based on FBI leaks in an article by Mother Jones and Yahoo News, reports ‘The Global USA News’. According to Patel, key figures Peter Strzok, Andy McCabe, and James Comey organized the leaks so …

New balance of power in the World's Oceans – Houthis allow British aircraft carrier to peacefully pass by Yemeni coast

10:49 07.06.2025

New balance of power in the World's Oceans – Houthis allow British aircraft carrier to peacefully pass by Yemeni coast

The British Navy contacted Ansarullah to request safe passage for the aircraft carrier ‘HMS Prince of Wales’ through the Red Sea. Mohammed al-Houthi is now saying that “Houthis permitted the UK's HMS Prince of Wales to transit the RedSea.” “Permission was granted on the condition that it remain non-combatant and …

WP: The epic breakup of Trump and Musk’s White House bromance

10:48 07.06.2025

WP: The epic breakup of Trump and Musk’s White House bromance

The alliance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk spectacularly imploded Thursday as the world’s most prominent bromance collapsed into mutual public trolling, writes ‘The Washington Post’. For months, as Musk emerged as the president’s constant companion and self-proclaimed “first buddy,” the question hovered of how long a duet could …

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