Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Russia.
Since the early 1990s, the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, located on the Amur River, has steadily reemerged as one of Russiaās most…
Taking an invention and claiming it as yours is called intellectual property, based on practices followed by US and European businesses. But…
When we discuss post-traumatic stress disorder in the context of war, most people usually imagine a soldier, who is back from war…
Books that reach a prisoner are always important. They are read attentively, without skipping details that, in the outside world, would probably…
I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regimeās refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud Flotilla on the…
Donald Trump claimed to pursue āregime changeā in Iran, but in a manner distinct from the George W. Bush administrationās use of…
One of the most appalling aspects of the Gaza genocide ā besides its near-unprecedented slaughter of children and other innocents and its…
The UK mediaās take on the use of āhard powerā depends entirely on whoās exercising it. The labelling of Russiaās war in…
Washingtonās 2025 strike on Iran, the raid to remove Venezuelan President NicolĆ”s Maduro in early 2026, and its renewed interest in acquiring Greenland have clarified the countryās…
Among the critical issues facing our country today, nuclear arms control is seldom top of mind for most people, understandably, given our…
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