It is important to understand that the West’s proxy war against Russia is not just another slight bump in the road in our centuries-old relations, but rather a deep, protracted conflict with long-lasting consequences. The old strategy, beginning with Peter the Great, to Europeanize the country and take its place …
Read More »Dmitry Trenin: 2023 will be make-or-break year for Russia
Predicting the course of political events during particularly volatile periods, such as the one we entered a year ago, is a thankless and meaningless endeavor. Yet in such times, there’s both a need and an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the main trends shaping the world. This brief …
Read More »Dmitry Trenin: A confession from Putin suggests that the Ukraine conflict could last for years
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented, during a meeting with soldiers’ mothers, that he now regards the Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015 as a mistake. This concession makes a powerful contribution to the possibilities of peace negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine. It is worth remembering that in 2014, …
Read More »Dmitry Trenin: Six months into the conflict, what exactly does Russia hope to achieve in Ukraine?
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to Ukraine as an “anti-Russian enclave” which has to be removed. He also said that the Russian soldiers taking part in the military operation there were fighting for their “own country.” These statements carry important implications. Over the last six-plus months, the mantra …
Read More »Dmitry Trenin: How Russia must reinvent itself to defeat the West’s ‘hybrid war’
The stand-off between Russia and the Western nations, which has been developing since 2014, escalated into an active confrontation with the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, back in late February. In other words, the Great Game has ceased to be a game. It has become total war, …
Read More »Dmitry Rogozin exposed Mask
Rogozin tore off the Mask the mask (sorry for the tautology). In the days when a billionaire is going to send into space its first manned spacecraft, our main “cosmonaut” said that the real aim of the American “placing in orbit nuclear weapons”. In comments to the Russian TV slips …
Read More »Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov urged not to send their girls to school and to cook mom
Caught in the center of the scandal, after the words “free prostitutes” Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on family matters, protection of motherhood and childhood, Dmitry Smirnov made a new loud statement. According to a Moscow priest, the girls do not need education, even the school. Radio “Radonezh” Smirnov gave …
Read More »“Roskosmos” explained high salaries of Dmitry Rogozin
The head of the internal audit service of the Roscosmos Artem Melnikov explained what caused the high salaries of managers of state Corporation. He said this on air of radio station “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. The auditor said that the high salary of employees of administration of the Corporation is access to …
Read More »Dmitry Medvedev – to the investors: “the economy all right”
The Chairman of the government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has declared that in economy of Russia all right: increase the volume of industrial production and turnover. “If we talk about the economy, it is obvious that in General we are all in the order of increasing industrial production, …
Read More »Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov urged women to manipulate picky husbands
“There’s no other way when dealing with a nerd” Head of the Patriarchal Commission for family Affairs Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov suggested to women that pick on men to be smarter and spouses to learn how to manipulate them. Radio “Radonezh”, answering a question of an investigator, the representative of …
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