Source link The measures were supposed to bring Moscow to its knees, but all they’ve really achieved is make everyone in Europe poorer By Ivan Timofeev, programme director of the Valdai Club. Foreign media and analysts are increasingly accepting that sanctions against Russia have failed to produce the results that were expected. But much depends on […]
Source link Kiev has lost over 16,000 heavy weapons in six months, according to the Russian Defense Ministry The US and other Western nations should fund Ukraine’s plan to create a self-sufficient military, if necessary on credit, President Vladimir Zelensky has suggested. Speaking to the Associated Press in an interview published on Friday, the Ukrainian […]
Source link In the past two years, Russian pop culture has taken a bizarre turn. Rappers who used to sing about drugs, amorous conquests, and ‘cool stuff’ in general, now go on stage with Russian flags and proclaim their love for the motherland. On the front line, soldiers listen to girly pop music about self-love […]
Source link Young scientists have showcased domestically produced equipment at an exhibit in Sochi The Russian economy has successfully overcome the “addiction” to Western technologies and is developing a competitive domestic market, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. During a meeting with participants in the 3rd Congress of Young Scientists in Sochi, Putin commented on […]
Source link Baku claims AbzasMedia was conducting illegal financial operations involving the US, French and German embassies Azerbaijan has filed complaints with the US, Germany and France over the illegal funding of a local media outlet, which has published investigations into government corruption. Three of its journalists were recently arrested on accusations of currency smuggling. […]
Source link The Sovcomflot-owned vessel was due to be unloaded at the Vadinar port last Saturday A Russian oil tanker is unable to unload its cargo due to the latest US sanctions and has been drifting in Indian waters for over ten days, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The Liberia-flagged vessel, which is owned by Russia’s […]
Source link Classical subjects are being discarded in favor of “gender and similar pseudosciences,” the Russian president said Schools and universities in the West have abandoned the liberal arts in favor of gender studies and other “pseudosciences,” Russian President Vladimir Putin remarked in a speech on Tuesday. “In the West, they are now practicing not […]
Source link The US-made Patriot missile system downed five military aircraft over Bryansk Region in May, a military official has claimed The Ukrainian military used a Western-supplied Patriot long-range missile system to take down five military aircraft over Russia’s border Bryansk Region in May, Air Forces spokesman Igor Ignat told journalists on Monday. Kiev had […]
Source link The Washington Post’s reporting on a secret Chinese-Russian tunnel project is “baseless,” Beijing has declared Reports of a Chinese-Russian project to build a tunnel between Crimea and the Russian mainland are “baseless,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has said. Citing Ukrainian spies, the Washington Post claimed last week that executives from both […]
Source link Sergey Guriev has been accused of hurting opponents of Putin more than his government Sergey Guriev, a Russian-born economist who advised the West on the type of sanctions that could have the greatest impact on his home nation, said on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday that he has suffered from some of them, […]
Source link Kiev is “nervous” that Ukraine is losing Western support after the failure of this summer’s counteroffensive and urgently needs the US and the EU to double down on sending it money, weapons and supplies, editors of the Financial Times urged on Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin “may feel for now that the odds […]
Source link The massive money printing is driving up inflation and food prices, according to the Russian president The world economy is struggling under overwhelming stress caused by the unwise macroeconomic policies of some countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during an online address to an extraordinary G20 summit on Wednesday. Speaking via video link, […]
Source link Washington and Berlin should reject truce calls from the ‘axis of prudence’, an FT-printed opinion piece has said The Western strategy of assisting Ukraine against Russia while hoping to prevent an escalation of the conflict is not working, so the US and Germany should abandon it and expedite Ukraine’s path to NATO, an […]
Source link The EU Council president and German defense chief were among those who visited Ukraine on the anniversary of the Maidan unrest A cavalcade of high-ranking Western officials paid an unannounced visit to Kiev on Monday, on the tenth anniversary of the start of the violent protests in the Ukrainian capital that eventually plunged […]
Source link Africa has no business adopting a system that it played no part in designing, Nigeria’s former leader has said Western democracy has failed to function as a system of government in Africa because it was imposed by colonial powers, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Monday. He made the remarks at a […]