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«New York Times»: Biden Meets Resistance

11:12 16.06.2022

«New York Times»: Biden Meets Resistance

«Biden Races to Expand Coalition Against Russia but Meets Resistance»,writes«New York Times». Many Asian, African and Latin American nations are maintaining ties with Russia as the United States tries to isolate President Vladimir V. Putin and end the war in Ukraine, the author notes.Now, with the conflict in its fourth …

Azovstal-type case created by Kiev at Azot plant

13:19 15.06.2022

Azovstal-type case created by Kiev at Azot plant

Emergency statementHead of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response -Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation:The Ukrainian side has requested a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians (women, children and the elderly) at Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk to Kiev-controlled territory in …

Such strange anti-Russian sanctions in Europe

11:47 15.06.2022

Such strange anti-Russian sanctions in Europe

Despite the fact that Europe has imposed sanctions against Russia from hell, Russian oil continues to flow there in increasing volumes, and sanctions do not affect this. «The Economist» magazine describes this paradoxical situation in an article «Russia is pumping more oil to Europe than it was before the war».The …

The New York Times: The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America

15:50 13.06.2022

The New York Times: The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America

I keep a sepia-tone photograph of the Relf sisters folded up and tucked in my wallet. It’s from a 1973 issue of Ebony magazine. The older of the two sisters, Minnie Lee, stares hard at the camera, her gaze direct and unsmiling but pleasant, almost quizzical. Her hair is freshly …

World resources and the end of the "well-being era" in the West

11:36 11.06.2022

World resources and the end of the "well-being era" in the West

After the West imposed sanctions on Russia, it turned out that, as a result, a deep crisis began there in the energy sector, in food supply and in some sensitive technological spheres. The West could not even imagine how deep the Russian economy is embedded in world processes. Talk about …

Kurdish autonomy as a price to pay for NATO unity. Will Europe budge?

11:58 10.06.2022 Alexander Sheffner

Kurdish autonomy as a price to pay for NATO unity. Will Europe budge?

Unfazed by halfhearted European protests, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan goes ahead with his military operation in Syria, designed to set up a buffer zone in the north of the country, pushing back or destroying the Kurdish units, de facto recognized by Damascus. Renunciation of Western support for the Kurds …

Poland will soon forget about Ukraine

10:37 10.06.2022

Poland will soon forget about Ukraine

“Polish confidence that the government knows what it is doing is fading away. Fear of war is replaced by fear of high cost and poverty,” writes the Polish edition of “Myśl Polska” in the article “Kryzys idzie ogromny a jesień będzie naprawdę gorąca…” - “The crisis is gaining momentum, and …

Britain wants a lot. Does it have enough strength?

11:09 09.06.2022

Britain wants a lot. Does it have enough strength?

“The war in Ukraine is our war – It is everyone's war… because Ukraine's victory is a strategic imperative for all of us… Now we need a new approach, one that melds hard security and economic security, one that builds stronger global alliances and where free nations are more assertive …

India will act in its national interest

11:17 08.06.2022

India will act in its national interest

“Causing India-Russia ties to breakdown would serve crucial western geopolitical ends”, the Indian ambassador Kanwal Sibal writes in his new article «Responding to American Criticism of India’s Stance on Russia-Ukraine Conflict».India’s strategic autonomy (which the US doesn’t support even in Europe) he stresses, depends on maintaining ties with all powers, …

Regular military briefing

12:52 07.06.2022

Regular military briefing

Ukrainian troops and ultra-nationalist formations are still shelling Donbass residential and social infrastructure areas. The capital city of the DPR was subjected to heavy shelling by the Ukrainian military late on June 4th. Multiple districts of Donetsk came under almost simultaneous attack by Kiev's forces, which used howitzers and rocket …

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