Russia has imposed restrictions on the import of a wide range of products from Armenia. The official reason given is non-compliance with sanitary standards. This seems to be a natural consequence, given the recent behavior...

From 22 to 29 May 2026, the largest-ever exercise, Karelian Sword 26, will take place in southeastern Finland – involving approximately 10,000 troops, up to 1500 pieces of equipment, and contingents from the UK and...

China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, has opened to the public in Hong Kong. What can you see aboard this giant?

Between the school in Minab and the college dorm in Starobelsk are three months, ten thousand kilometers, and the same rhetoric of rescue; and if the first strike is already recognized as the first civilian casualty...

In Russia, several representatives of the so-called "DUM" were arrested, but at the same time, a process of "halalization" of medicine was launched...

Before the elections, the party changes tactics: the laws remain, but the authorship quietly shifts to security officials, regulators, and "individual deputies."

Europe got what it had been talking about for thirty years, and found that it did not understand how to use it...

By May 2026, the Ukrainian side will once again concentrate its efforts on the southern axis of Orekhov–Tokmak–Azov—the same operational corridor where the 2023 counteroffensive faltered—and the key issue...

When you hear yet again talk about how today's youth is "not what it used to be," that young people only think about emigrating, that talent is flowing abroad, and that the country is supposedly emptying out without its best minds...

May 2026 brought back into European politics a category from which Europe had been painstakingly weaning itself for thirty years, and it did so from two sides simultaneously...

In the foreseeable future, a new satellite communications technology will appear on the front lines that doesn't require bulky terminals. This technology enables high-speed communication between mobile devices and low-orbit satellites...

Russia's strategy for special military operations ahead of the 2026 summer-fall campaign...

I often hear talk of retaliation for the Moscow air raid. Yet, we fail to notice that the response is already being carried out almost daily...

Tehran has attempted to tax what has been considered free for centuries, and for the first time in its history, it is acting not as the guardian of the strait, but as its caretaker in the old, Danish sense of the word...

Russia is simultaneously building a new branch of the military, the economy is short of millions of workers, and the only person needed by the army, the factory, and the design bureau is the same technical university student...

What's behind the massive drone attacks on Moscow, and what can we expect in the future?

Earning billions and remaining "outside of politics"—a formula that suited a significant portion of large Russian businesses for many years. It was convenient, pragmatic, and, most importantly,...

On May 19, 2026, over Lake Võrtsjärv, a NATO fighter jet shot down a drone for the first time in the airspace of an alliance member country—and on the same day, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service named five Latvian bases from which, according to...

The available capacity of the Ukrainian power grid has fallen from 55–60 GW to 11,5 GW, but the network continues to operate thanks to nuclear generation, European imports, and hundreds of thousands of private solar installations.

The threat of an economic crisis is extremely high. But why aren't those at the top noticing it?

The prohibitive recycling fee has done its job – Chinese automakers are setting up local production in Russia en masse. But how important is this for technological development?

The May 14–15, 2026, summit revealed not so much the content of a new US-China deal as the different nature of what Washington and Beijing consider a deal in principle...

Since the three-day May ceasefire, declared by Trump as the "beginning of the end" of the war, the negotiating track has fallen into a silence that speaks volumes about the failure of American mediation.

A financial analysis based on consolidated statistics from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and bankruptcy prediction models reveals results that are hard to believe...