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The Imperious Arrogance of the West

The West blames Vladimir Putin for the crisis in Ukraine. According to the analyst Turmud Haier, the question is whether the West should consider the Russia’s interests instead of boasting of its own ideals and values. The main principle of regulating international conflicts consists in prevention of the tension increase and the useless escalation. It […]

The force of Russia is in its seeming weakness

At all times the West had to deal with Russia which, regardless of how it was called — the empire, the USSR or the Russian Federation, always provoked the western powers to aggressive actions against it subsequently to win the victories. It means that the Russian foreign and domestic policy for several hundred years was directed on that by subtle provocations to compel these or those western powers, or their […]

The Russian Bear can certainly swim. 

Editor’s Note: Please take a look at previous works from our “Weapons of War” series including the Russia’s Military is Back, Russia’s Navy Rising, the Five Best Weapons of War from the Soviet Union, and The Five Most Powerful Russian Weapons of War in the Sky. At the time of its breakup, the Soviet Union […]

United States does not allow Japan to develop bilateral relations with Russia

AccordingKyodo news agency the government of Japan said that the decision to cancel an official visit of the President of Russia to Japan was made under pressure from Washington. Japan had to take into account the requirement of Obama not to carry out a bilateral meeting with the Russian leader and to show solidarity with […]

Andrey Samokhin – Arctic – Russia’s perspective

In recent years Russia has been actively developing its northern areas, including carbon production, and extending the Northern sea route (the NSR), that becomes an alternative to traditional routs from Europe to Asia. Territories, continental shelves and exclusive economic zones of 8 Arctic States: Russia. Canada, the USA (Alaska), Norway, Denmark (Greenland and the Faeroes), […]

High Cost of Bad Journalism on Ukraine

Exclusive: By driving a wedge between President Obama and President Putin over Ukraine, America’s neocons and the mainstream media can hope for more “shock and awe” in the Mideast, but the U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill, including $1 trillion more on nuclear weapons, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The costs of the mainstream U.S. media’s […]

What’s really going on around the downed Malaysian Boeing in Ukraine.

To sort out the question of who actually shot down the Malaysian passenger plane, it is necessary to look at the situation objectively, which occurs in Ukraine. For me as for Russian, who has Ukrainian roots, and with famous Ukrainian surname, this subject is especially close. Besides, I have relatives in Ukraine who live in […]

Ukrainian manifesto

Andrey Avramenko March 9, 2014 letter from Kharkov, Ukraine Almost for 23 years, our country is independent and free. We are not slaves, we are not mobs or middlebrow, we almost Europeans. Isn’t it the best thing that could happen to us. We got rid of all fetters, which only you can throw. We got […]

Indian Foreign Policy: The Cold War Lingers

India’s support for Russia during the Crimea crisis should be a wake-up call for Washington. By Andrew J. Stravers and Peter Harris In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Crimea, almost every member of the international community voiced concern over Russia’s actions. While the U.S. and European Union were the most forceful in their criticism, […]

Crimea and Ukraine: Whose Cold War?

Abdallah Schleifer I never thought the day would come when I would have to turn to Russian media to get a sense of what was going on somewhere in the world. But just for a start, look at the videos on Youtube from Russia Today, the 24/7 Russian English language news channel. Videos of scenes […]