Over the last few days, a number of interesting but apparently unrelated events have occurred which are, in fact, a sign of important changes in international relations. July 21 saw the publication of an Order of the President of the Russian Federation: “On the organizing committee responsible for the preparations for and holding of the…
It’s Italy which will fire the starter’s gun on a turnaround on the EU’s policy on Russia and the Ukraine war. It might well be Italy which marks the starting point of a demise of sorts of the EU, as the coalition government collapses. Mario Draghi, who might be remembering interest rate hikes like the…
The prevailing narrative has hitherto been that Western unity on Ukraine is an unprecedented display of solidarity with so-called “democratic principles”, yet now none other than a leading American official just discredited that interpretation of events. CNN, which cannot realistically be described as so-called “Russian propaganda”, dropped a major bombshell earlier this week when it…
The Arabic portal “Elaph” has called anti-Russian sanctions the “friendly and bitter fire of the USA in Europe” that has led to negative consequences for the economies of the countries of the Old World. They suffered from them after announcing the rejection of Russian gas, with no clear alternative to replace it. The portal’s opinion…
The European Union and the euro must be unwound and Germany and France must again plough their own furrows, Declan Hayes writes. Though explaining who really rules Europe begins with the Peloponnesian wars and carries on through our more recent Napoleonic wars, it only ends when the governance issues Pericles and Plato first raised are…
Some observers have speculated that Baku is competing with Moscow, but this interpretation either ignores what President Aliyev told Russian media during his trip to Moscow the day before the start of his host’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine, or those who share this view simply aren’t aware of it. Two major gas deals…
