Tag: Russia
The New Year’s Day decision by Ukraine to suspend a five-year gas transit agreement with Moscow has triggered an energy crisis in Europe and threatened to spill its ongoing conflict with Russia over into neighboring countries.
The termination of Russian gas exports to the continent via Ukrainian pipelines has already...
The late historian Antony C. Sutton is one of the most influential thinkers in the current American populist movement. The Mises Institute has repeatedly promoted his work, as has the Cato Institute, and his books are steady sellers on Amazon (an impressive feat given that most of their content...
How can a country with a degree of democracy put sanctions on various countries resulting in wide impoverishment while it brags that it is spreading democracy and freedom worldwide?
A country that has the rule of capital as its main objective. True, there are other systems with negative characteristics.
But capitalism...
On a recent visit to Russia, I happened to come across a Ukrainian restaurant while walking through Moscow.
Politicians and the media in the West wanted us to believe that Russia intended to annex Ukraine and eradicate its culture. I was therefore both amazed and delighted that this centre of...
Sensationalistic headlines about North Korean engagement in Kursk contradicted by statements of Secretary of Defense
On November 24, Newsweek ran a story by Ellie Cook with the headline “Russian and North Korean Troops Shrink Ukraine’s Gains in Kursk.”
The title made it seem like North Korea was fighting on the front-lines...
Arnaud DEVELAY caught up with elected Member of the Russian State Duma and Ranking Member of the Duma’s Commission for International Affairs, Maria BUTINA.
Q: Let us start with what has been a crackdown on free speech around the world with the raid on Scott Ritter’s house, the arrest...
I am the exiled whistleblower from the largest bank collapse in Latvian history, fighting for years to publicize evidence of a cover-up organized by the government of Latvia and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which protects Russian President Vladimir Putin’s central money-laundering system.
The EBRD is based in...
On September 12, a jury came back with a split verdict, finding three members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), known as the Uhuru 3, not guilty of acting as Russian agents, though guilty of conspiring to act as Russian foreign agents.
The verdict was welcomed by the Uhuru...
The founder and CEO of social media and communications app Telegram, Pavel Durov was arrested in France on August 24th. The country, one of the Nine Eyes intelligence partners along with the US, UK, Australia and others, claims that the social media app is a hotbed for illegal activity, and Western media coverage blasts it as a tool of the Russian government. But the attack on Telegram is actually a testing ground for future attacks on encrypted messaging platforms and alternative news sources...
The Cold War did not end for the United States with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Instead, the United States set out on a systematic 30-plus year effort to undermine, humiliate and threaten the Russian state. This has ultimately led to the tragedy of the war in Ukraine.
Of...