Tag Archives: Russia

Efforts by Ukraine and its Western backers to convince, shame, and sanction companies into leaving the Russian market have backfired, placing lucrative enterprises in Russian hands at discount prices and pumping more than a billion dollars worth of exit taxes into Moscow’s coffers, the New York Times reported on Monday. …

The convention of the ruling United Russia party has unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin’s bid to seek reelection next year as an independent candidate. If the incumbent leader wins the vote, it will be his fifth term in office. The motion was put to a vote by former president and …

The entire planet is threatened by the “evil” that Moscow is currently fighting, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said on Tuesday. The Russian world is a significant part of human civilization, meaning the threat it is facing could lead to “terrible consequences” for nations everywhere, he …

Moscow and Tehran have developed strong ties over the past years and as a result have boosted their respective economies, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi. The iranian president arrived in Moscow on a sate visit on Thursday. The two leaders discussed both bilateral ties and …

The body of a former Ukrainian opposition lawmaker, Ilya Kiva, has been found in Moscow Region, Russian media reported on Wednesday. The politician was known as a staunch critic of President Vladimir Zelensky. Kiva’s body was reportedly found on the grounds of the ‘Velich Country Club’ hotel near a cottage …

In what appears to be the last interview that former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger gave before his death last week, the statesman lamented the lack of dialogue between the US and Russia in remarks published by Politico on Saturday. Kissinger, whose controversial legacy came into the spotlight after …

Foreign media and analysts are increasingly accepting that sanctions against Russia have failed to produce the results that were expected. But much depends on how we view the effectiveness of sanctions, and on how we determine the concept. There is a classical definition, which implies that it’s determined by the …

The London-based human rights advocacy group Amnesty International has strongly denounced Russia’s ban on “international LGBT movement.”  Marie Struthers, the NGO’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia director, said that the“shameful and absurd” decision by Russia’s Supreme Court is tantamount to “a blanket ban on LGBTI organizations” that will pave a …

Moscow did not get enough votes from Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) members on Wednesday to stay on the Executive Council past May 2024. The 41-member board is elected to 2-year rotating terms from among the 193 member states, “with due regard to the principle of equitable …

Six months after the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive near Artemovsk [which Kiev calls Bakhmut], the operation completely collapsed and Russian troops were able to seize the initiative. Launching a series of attacks, Moscow’s forces recovered some of the positions they had lost to the northwest of the city in the area of …