Naseh Shaker “Assisting guerrillas to maim and kill Russian soldiers might well create an irreparable breach between Russia and the West” In February 1989, the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan where the US-backed ‘Islamists’ were confronting the Soviet Union between 1979-89. However, after the defeat of western-backed terrorists …

Kremlin: The oil embargo will hit the global market hard The Kremlin said on Saturday that Russia has always been and remains a country looking for mutually beneficial interaction with foreign businesses. “We hope that sooner or later our position will be conceived by those countries – the …

Liquefying natural gas makes it easier to transport between countries that do not share pipelines. Germany said it will build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on its coast on the North Sea, saying it seeks to reduce its reliance on imports of Russian gas following Moscow’s special …

Andrey Sushentov On February 24, the era of Russia’s search for its place in the Western-centric world ended. In this world, all political initiatives came only from the West. The Western countries also determined the basic rules of this world and allowed, at their discretion, other participants to …

Giancarlo Valori In 2021 cyberthreat actors around the world increased the pressure on security issues, and it is no exaggeration to say that 2022 could be the most challenging year ever. With a view to helping security teams better face challenges, security vendor ZeroFox has recently released the …

Military force is indispensable to keeping the peace. On December 8, 1991, Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev formally agreed to end the Soviet Union, mere months after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in March and Poland’s free parliamentary elections in October. As many analysts assumed at the …

A bellicose Russia, shorn of its empire and suffused with resentment, is being led by a leader intent on payback for the wrongs that he believes were inflicted upon his nation after the end of the Cold War by vengeful and unscrupulous Western powers. In 1902, the Boston …

Terri Langston The generally excellent Berlin daily newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel, has just cut off its nose to spite its face. In a move that leaves it bereft of its most thought-provoking weekly columnist, the editors have effectively forced out Harald Martenstein, who has worked at the newspaper since …

Stephan Richter and Uwe Bott It is widely disputed who once famously stated: “When the facts change, I change my mind.” Guesses vary. John Maynard Keynes, Paul Samuelson or Winston Churchill. The debate is ultimately pointless. What is important is that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in office only …