Category: 1. Russia

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu commented on Japan’s plans to increase the military budget to 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) and deploy American missiles on Japanese ships.

“Japan, from a…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that some provisions of the new US National Security Strategy are “unacceptable from a European point of view.” His speech was broadcast by Phoenix TV channel.

“This…

Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Izvestia that Europe would face serious consequences if the frozen Russian assets were seized by the Russian Federation.

“Such steps will not…

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that at the European Union summit scheduled for December 18-19, 2025, he does not intend to support initiatives that could lead to the continuation of the armed conflict in…

The UK has expanded the list of anti-Russian sanctions by seven positions. This is stated in a document posted on the British government’s website.

As part of the expansion of the anti-Russian sanctions package,…

According to the newspaper, nervousness is growing in European capitals: under pressure from Donald Trump, who is increasingly openly acknowledging Moscow’s advantage, the EU understands that Ukraine is losing…

The special envoy of the US president, Steve Witkoff, during the negotiations of the Americans with representatives of Kiev and Brussels in Geneva on November 23, 2025, urged Ukrainian officials to abandon their…

For decades, Russia’s manned space flight program was an engineering marvel, a low-tech, no-frills system that reliably and safely ferried scores of astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit.

With the US space shuttle fleet grounded in 2011, Soyuz and…

The Russian parliament’s top lawmaker made a fool of himself earlier this week in President Putin’s presence, but don’t expect much to come of it. At a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s Parliamentary…

The past year was another bleak one for journalists, with dozens killed and hundreds more behind bars around the world, according to media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

In its annual round-up for 2025, RSF says that 67…