War in Ukraine has rewritten Germany’s political ideology
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock addressed a special meeting of the German Parliament on Sunday. Her speech is…
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German security assistance to Ukraine perpetually on hold (Part 2)
An itemized list of Ukraine’s latest request for German security assistance has found its way into two major…
German security assistance to Ukraine perpetually on hold (Part 1)
Germany ranks among the top arms-exporting countries worldwide. However, it is withholding lethal security assistance to Ukraine and…
Seven reasons why the USA and EU lost to the Nord Stream 2 lobbyists
There is no point in analyzing the work of German and American lobbyists of the Kremlin’s Nord Stream-2…
“A second Budapest memorandum”: experts on the US-Germany Nord Stream 2 deal
Washington and Berlin have clinched a deal on the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline said to give Russia…
What the US-German deal on Nord Stream 2 promises Ukraine
The document begins with an assurance that the United States and Germany strongly support Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity,…
US-Germany Nord Stream 2 agreement — a victory for Russia
At the same time, European gas storage levels are at only 53 percent of their capacity, or nearly…
Strategic corruption: the new hybrid weapon against the West
The use of corruption in furthering a country’s geopolitical interests is the primary technique currently widely used by…
Four setbacks to Western credibility in Ukraine (Part 2)
* * * To read Part 1 of the analysis, please click here * * * NATO has…
Four setbacks to Western credibility in Ukraine (Part 1)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has scrapped the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine and NATO-Georgia commissions that had…
Can the vessel Akademik Cherskiy finish Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction?
At the beginning of October 2020, the Akademik Cherskiy—the only Russian pipe-laying ship capable of completing the construction…
Russia pushes to complete Nord Stream 2 challenging US sanctions
While the United States struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia has deployed two pipe-laying vessels to the Baltic…
Portnikov: Who in Ukraine is being bribed by Putin and Gazprom?
Even if literally the next day after the press release about reaching an agreement between Russia and Ukraine…
‘The West won’t allow the Russian Federation to disintegrate,’ Kashapov says
Rafis Kashapov, the deputy prime minister of the Tatarstan government in exile, a member of the presidium of…
Portnikov: Why Berlin saves Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag’s ruling coalition to change the…
Europe fails to see Moscow using economics as a weapon not only against the former Soviet states but against it as well, Tsybulenko says
“In contrast to the countries of the West which are led by the principle, ‘politics is the concentrated…
Portnikov: Breathing lighter without Lega
Europeans can breathe easy for the first time in several years: Italy, one of the leading economies of…
Putin has created a Fifth International organizing the right, Felshtinsky says
Marx created the First International; Engels established the Second; Lenin, the Third; Trotsky, the Fourth; and now Vladimir…
President of Memorial: Russian rights activists who backed Russia’s return to PACE repeated error of liberals in 1993
The capitulation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to the Russian Federation has taken place…
Europe is for sale and Putin is buying
Two days ago, the Council of Europe voted to ignore its own warnings about Russian aggression and human…