Russia faces difficulties: India’s reduction in oil purchases leads to financial losses – FIS
Russia is facing financial difficulties due to India’s reduction in oil purchases. Moscow is offering Urals oil to China at a discount, but Beijing will not be able to fully compensate for the lost volumes.
Criminalisation of Ethnicity: How Ethnic Ukrainians in Russia are Declared “Terrorists”
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, not only has the pressure on the regime’s political opponents increased, but a systematic campaign of persecution has begun against those […]
Russia has suddenly “become active” on the topic of negotiations — and this is not about goodwill. It’s about money
Russia has suddenly “become active” on the topic of negotiations — and this is not about goodwill. It’s about money. In just the first seven months of this year, the […]
Russia attacks Azerbaijani gas and oil
In the context of Aliyev and Zelensky’s strong condemnation of Russia’s attacks on the SOCAR oil depot in the Odessa region, which belongs to Azerbaijan, as well as the gas […]
Fedor Shaporenko: Trump’s swings
Donald Trump has been the 47th President of the United States for six months. During this time, he has said so much that it is enough for everyone, both for […]
Belarus: a country without memory. How Belarusians lost their identity
Belarus is Ukraine that failed. Not a history of resistance, but a chronicle of gradual capitulation. While Ukraine is fighting for freedom with weapons in hand, Belarus has been losing […]
Valeriy Zaluzhny — about the roots of identity, the power of unity, and the most important historical lessons for Ukrainians
In his column, Valeriy Zaluzhny, a combat general, former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and currently the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom, reflects on the roots of identity, the power of unity, and the most important historical lessons that Ukrainians are forced to learn right now.
“The goal is total Russification.” Moscow cuts hours of teaching native languages: at present from two to one
Starting from 1 September, Russian schools will reduce the number of hours for teaching native languages: instead of two, to one hour per week. This will especially affect non-Russian-language schools, […]
The only option: what will allow Russia to collapse
As soon as the flow of investment from Moscow to the republics stops, the republics will immediately go into free float.
Valeriy Zaluzhnyj: Technological War of Attrition and How to Win It
The Ukrainian-Russian war is often described as a technological revolution and a time of paradigm shift in warfare. People with big shoulders around the world are studying every technological twist […]
The death of the Russian Minister of Transport is no accident
The death of the Russian Minister of Transport is no accident. Sudden and voluntary resignations of officials, public appointments for long periods, and nationalisation (squeezing) of businesses are a new […]
Inna Kurochkina: In order to understand “what Putin wants from Ukraine,” a huge amount of intellectual work must be done
I recorded a programme in which I read declassified documents, decrees, NKVD interrogation protocols, everything related to the Vinnytsia region, in memory of my grandfather. The material is tough, breaking […]