NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg linked Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula with the confrontation of superpowers. This is an important observation that turns the conflict around Crimea – like other similar...
Sanctions against Moscow for its violation of international law in Ukraine are important and worth maintaining as a statement of what the West stands for even if they won’t change the policy of a dictator unlikely to be swayed by the...
The decision of the EU to continue but not increase sanctions against Russia represents the current “European consensus” of how to respond to Moscow’s aggressive actions, Vitaly Portnikov says. That is because the countries of the...
Below we shall look at only the most evident, obvious arguments that indicate the fallacy of such a conclusion. By examining the facts, it will become obvious that in the USA, the Immortal Regiment celebrations are an operation sanctioned...
Every month, ilmenite is delivered by sea to the Kerch port of Kamysh-Burun in the east of occupied Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea to serve the sole buyer – the Armiansk Titan plant in the north of Crimea, part of the corporate...
Oleg Sysuyev, the deputy head of Alfa-Bank, Russia’s seventh largest bank by net assets, says that his institution will no longer provide services to Russian defense industries that have fallen under US sanctions, even though...
According to the study, the German economy suffers by far the largest export losses among the Western Nations due to the sanctions against Russia, the newspaper Rheinische Post reported, citing an unpublished investigation of the Kiel...
The failure of Vladimir Putin to get a sit down with Donald Trump represents “the agony of the Kremlin’s ‘Trump is Ours’ special operation” and is leading some in Putin’s entourage to think about some kind of “hybrid...
The August 2, 2017 law to counter Russian aggression requires that the Trump Administration identify in a report to Congress all Russians who have illegally acquired wealth in their own country and then invested it in the US and begin to...
Vladimir Putin’s plans to spend more money on rearmament is “a squandering of valuable natural and labor resources, Mikhail Bobryshev says. But more than it, “an arms race led to the collapse of the USSR and the same thing will...
But, did you know that for the first and last time, Ukraine celebrated Independence Day on July 16, 1991? The chosen date was based on the first anniversary of the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, which enshrined political...
