Army. Language. Faith. No, this is not an election slogan. These are the principal safeguards of the foundations of an independent state, standing guard over its territorial integrity, the historical achievements of its national culture and identity, and the spiritual…
Estonia has asked the European Union to exclude the Solikamsk Magnesium Plant, and an individual connected with it – the company’s chief executive Ruslan Dimukhamedov – from the 22nd package of sanctions against Russia. The reason was the Estonian company…
After Ukrainian strikes on three Yandex data centres, the company has still not restored them to full operation. Users felt the disruption to taxis, delivery services and cloud services not only in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus.…
The administration of US President Donald Trump supports a proposal to buy the foreign assets of the Russian oil company Lukoil, valued at roughly $20 billion. The New York Post reported this on 9 October, citing a source in the…
The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma its draft federal budget for 2027 and the planning period 2028–2029. The document is currently being examined by the relevant committee, and the first reading in the State Duma is scheduled…
In brief: A non-paper with a nuclear threat: what is known for certain Reuters saw the text of the document. In it Moscow accuses the Alliance of a “dangerous and reckless course” and writes: “Russia will be ready to use…
On the eve of the new heating season, talk of an energy truce between Russia and Ukraine is being heard ever more often. Yet behind the diplomatic statements a fundamental inequality remains: Russia continues to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, while…
At the Valdai Club meeting Vladimir Putin talked about Ukraine again. Except that in this speech Ukraine was the scenery, not the addressee. The addressee was you – the societies of the West, which elect governments, fund defence and have…
“The more Russia tries to destabilise Germany, the more important it becomes for Ukraine not merely to preserve German aid, but to present Ukraine convincingly as part of the security system of Germany and Europe,” says Professor Ihor Todorov September…
The European Union has agreed to remove the Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the personal sanctions list they had been on since 2022. France and Slovakia pushed for the restrictions on Usmanov to be lifted and Luxembourg…
