Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disruptive and expansive nationalist ideology is the main underpinning of his nation’s foreign policy orientation. This has been apparent in his aggressive approach to Ukraine since 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, as well as in...
Michael Sergeyevich Gorbachev, MSB hereafter, the last president of the Soviet Union died on August 30, in Moscow. He was born on March 2 1931. President Putin of Russia, the successor state to the Soviet Union, paid his respects...
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova© Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has jokingly asked American and British media outlets to release a schedule of Russia’s "upcoming invasions" of Ukraine for the current...
The rise of a critical mass of world leaders including Donald J. Trump, Xi Jinping and others In Europe, Asia and Latin America who are bent on shaping a new world order in their authoritarian and civilizationalist mould, has...
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via video conference outside Moscow, December 24, 2021  The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) to have first face-to-face encounter in Paris on December 9, 2019 The relationship of the famous Ukrainian oligarch and billionaire Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky...
Former NATO commander General Wesley Clark earlier explained that the US underwent a post-9/11 transformation. A “policy coup” occurred.  With no public debate or acknowledgement, hardliners in Washington usurped power. Days after 9/11, Clark learned from Pentagon commanders that plans were...
Photo Credit: The Cradle This first appeared in the Cradle Vector politics in Ukraine has added new dimensions to the 222 day-old conflict. Typically, any conflict behavior should end when a new balance of powers has been determined. But the ‘balancing...
The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks at his meeting with government ministers on Thursday constituted his first comments on the West’s “sanctions from hell.” They were focused almost entirely on “a set of measures to minimise the consequences of sanctions on the Russian...
By Eve Ottenberg Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair There is no daylight between presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the permanent war economy. Both tout the weapons industry as a source of jobs, jobs, jobs for Americans, never mentioning...