Russia and Pakistan have agreed to simplify visa procedures and plan to sign the agreement this summer. What does this mean, and what are the risks?

The combined wealth of Russia's financial elite has reached a historic high of $696,5 billion. This is more than double the amount of Russian assets abroad frozen in 2022. No one...

How the drug propaganda law, which hasn't even fully come into effect yet, has already slapped warning labels on Khottabych, Cheburashka, Zoshchenko, and Bulgakov—and what does the law have to do with it?

Another pinnacle of technological sovereignty: last December, Russia launched its first gigafactory for lithium-ion battery production. This is the company's...

In Azerbaijan, Russian citizens detained last year were sentenced to prison terms.

So, the president declared that the conflict in Ukraine is coming to an end. Russia is committed to the understandings and agreements reached at the Anchorage summit. In other words, all issues were resolved long ago...

For seventy-five years, the dual containment kept Germany in its embrace and Russia at bay—now the alliance is removing one of the two fuses to keep it going...

On May 11, 2026, Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities announced suspicion in the Midas case—a $10.5 million laundering scheme involving a cottage cooperative near Kyiv, which was being built...

The sooner we discover talent and nurture it, the brighter and more successful our shared future will be. There is no other way. Under any other scenario, Russia risks becoming a third-rate country...

At every congress in the 20s and 30s, Stalin spoke of the growth of the working class in the USSR. But how did this growth occur? Through the internal migration of peasants to the cities! And they also brought their...

Carlson spends an hour and a half on cocaine, "Goebbels' propaganda," and the surrender of Donbass, but the real scene in this interview is one: Zelensky's former press secretary switches to Russian, cries, and addresses...

Germany's role in the current European situation is to ensure that both sides simultaneously come to the conclusion that a military solution is impossible. A conveyor belt of attack drones near Munich and a peaceful...

There is a persistent feeling that the Ukrainian War is a prologue to a coming, larger war, similar to the Spanish Civil War or the Winter War of 1939. What might this war be like?

Before attacking the Central Bank, it's worth taking a closer look at the financial condition of businesses and organizations and determining the reasons why they're accumulating debt...

The Ministry of Industry and Trade extended parallel imports until 2026, but starting May 27, it will remove Intel, Samsung, Cisco, HPE, and a dozen other key brands from the program—that is, the exact hardware base on which...

The 1939 analogy is no longer an analogy. By the beginning of 2026, it's no longer a way to explain anything, but a way to indicate the speaker's position. The symptom isn't that it's being used, but...

On the night of May 7, 2026, 63 kilometers from the Pskov border, an oil depot in Rezekne, Latvia, caught fire—and that night made it clear that in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, and Warsaw, for a month and a half...

Russian science finds itself in a situation where the path to grants, indices, and professional recognition can simultaneously become a road to prison. The sentencing of two Siberian physicists has highlighted...

Armenia's turn to the West looks decisive until you look at what remains untouched beneath it...

Proposals for the implementation of the President's statement of April 28, 2026....

Many around the world have already taken notice of the hyped-up conspiracy against Putin. How realistic is this?

The small business registry has reached a new all-time high, but behind the growth figure lies not entrepreneurial activity, but a survival strategy: businesses are fragmenting to meet tax thresholds, going into...

Zelensky threatens to attack the Victory Day parade in Moscow with drones from Yerevan...

When the Bank of Russia raised its key rate to a historic 21% in December 2024, it began to treat an overheating economy without understanding which sectors were actually overheating, and in...