Category: 1. Russia

In May 2025, police raided the private homes and offices of current and former employees of Eksmo-AST, Russia’s largest publishing group. About a dozen people (the exact number remains unclear) were arrested in connection with so-called…

US President Donald Trump told his Polish counterpart the United States was ready to increase its military presence in the Central European nation, one of the countries on NATO’s so-called “eastern flank” warily watching Russia’s…

It’s been mocked as the “Coalition of the Waiting.”

The ad hoc alliance of mostly European countries — known as the Coalition of the Willing — that pledged to provide a viable post-war security plan for Ukraine has had months of meetings with…

Moscow and Beijing on Tuesday reached an agreement to build Power of Siberia 2, a long-delayed pipeline to supply Russian gas to China.

If completed, it would provide China with a safeguard against geopolitical risks while giving…

More than two weeks have passed since U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and by all appearances, this controversial show of diplomacy yielded no tangible results. Despite the positive follow-up meeting with Volodymyr…

The Russian authorities are mounting an unprecedented campaign to make Max, a messaging app developed by the state-controlled social media company VK, the country’s primary communications platform. They’ve disabled voice calls on Russia’s…

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were caught on a hot mic on Wednesday discussing human longevity in a brief exchange that touched on living to 150 years old and even the prospect of “immortality.”

The unscripted…

Germany faces a shortage of electricity supply by 2030 if the country does not commission new generating capacities in time. The Handelsblatt newspaper writes about this with reference to a document by the Federal…

Vladimir Putin wrapped up his four-day visit to China on Wednesday. During the trip, the Russian president attended a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, held talks with a range of foreign leaders, and attended Beijing’s largest-ever…

The head of the White House Donald Trump instructed the Pentagon to prepare the armed forces to contain the rapprochement between Russia and China. This was stated by the head of the US Defence Ministry Pete Hegseth…