Army General Sergei Surovikin acquired the nicknames “the Syrian butcher” and “General Armageddon” during Russia’s military operation in Syria under President Bashar al-Assad, where he commanded the Russian force grouping…
Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Robert Kaliňák, one of the most influential figures in Prime Minister Robert Fico’s ruling Smer-SD party, has said that Bratislava does not regard…
British payments specialist Michael Donald, who previously served on the board of Visa UK and worked at a number of major Western financial companies, has emerged at the center of…
Twenty-eight-year-old Daria Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, died after developing severe pneumonia. About 200 contacts were placed under medical observation, some were hospitalized or isolated, and…
The paradox of Russia’s current political system is that the measures intended to guarantee Vladimir Putin’s personal security — continuing the war, eliminating alternative centers of power, repression, militarizing the…
Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Valdai Club meeting on October 1, 2026, is important less for the novelty of Russia’s demands than for the moment at which they were formulated.…
