By Andreas Kluth “Big Putin gave orders to little Putin”. And the instructions were to trigger what could actually become a second Ukraine-style crisis in Europe, but this time in Kosovo. Who said the above saying? Continue reading. A renewed hot conflict in Kosovo would be smaller in scale than the war in Ukraine and […]
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Putin-Erdogan: The meeting of two leaders who face foreign policy in the light of their own survival
Of Peter Apps As Vladimir Putin and Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi tomorrow, some 20,000 Russian and Turkish workers and specialists at Akuyu on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast are moving ahead with what those behind the project describe as the largest nuclear power plant construction site in the world. people. According to Turkish media, Russian energy […]
Russia’s Resilience Temporary – Risks ‘Financial Oblivion’, Economists Warn
The resilience of Russia’s economy to Western sanctions as a result of its invasion of Ukraine is temporary, many economists say, warning that the country is facing “economic oblivion”. The International Monetary Fund last week revised upward its forecast for Russia’s GDP in 2022 by 2.5 percentage points, estimating that the Russian economy will ultimately […]
Putin: Nuclear war should never break out
Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that a nuclear war can have no winners and should never break out, in comments released by the Kremlin. As reported by Reuters, Putin’s comment is from his letter to the participants of the Conference on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). “We start from the fact that there […]
Is Putin winning the ‘war’ for Africa?
By Clara Ferreira Marques Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s charm offensive in Africa last week, part of efforts to drum up support in the face of Russia’s growing isolation, has unnerved the West. Is Moscow gaining ground in emerging economies? Why can’t African countries understand that Russia is waging a war of conquest? On the […]
The Times: Putin ‘at his most dangerous’ as a political solution in Ukraine looks almost impossible
A senior US intelligence official said “Putin has changed, there’s no doubt about that.” “And so that’s a real political problem for us.” As analyst Mark Galeotti reports in an article in the Sunday Times, in February, when the war began, it was possible to talk about possible solutions, but now, the official complained, “I […]
B. Putin: The United States is the main threat to Russia
President Vladimir Putin signed a new naval doctrine today, which positions the United States as Russia’s main adversary and defines Russia’s global maritime ambitions for critical regions such as the Arctic and Black Sea. Speaking on Russia’s Navy Day in the former imperial capital St Petersburg founded by Tsar Peter the Great, Putin praised Peter […]
Putin: The Russian Navy will soon be equipped with supersonic Zircon missiles
President Vladimir Putin said today that the Russian navy may be equipped with Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles within the next few months and that the area where they are deployed will depend on Russian interests. Speaking at Russia’s Navy Day in St Petersburg, Putin praised Tsar Peter the Great for making Russia a great maritime […]
Bloomberg: This is the ‘architect’ of Putin’s economic counterattack
When sanctions made the “Russian fortress” he helped build look less impregnable, Maxim Oreshkin came up with a trick to try to break the economic siege. Russia’s war against Ukraine was less than a month old, and its surprise war was already beginning to falter. The economic blow was also severe as the government struggled […]
Why the EU’s gas plan is not enough in the face of Putin’s blackmail
By the Bloomberg Opinion Editorial Team By all indications, Russian President Vladimir Putin is using energy exports as a weapon to divide Europe and undermine its support for Ukraine. The European Union’s response earlier in the week is unlikely to change his plans. Time to find a more effective solution is running out. Russia’s state-owned […]