World
NATO
While NATO has conducted monitoring and surveillance missions for decades, with increased attention over the Black Sea since February 2022, recent weeks show a spike that peaked sharply on Wednesday.
Mar. 21
Putin
The three-day vote last weekend saw Putin cruise to an easy victory for a fifth Kremlin term, unchallenged by any meaningful opposition.
Mar. 21
The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.
Mar. 21
Kremlin
The Russian Ministry of Defense is forced to transfer troops from the front line to protect the border Belgorod and Kursk regions following anti-Kremlin volunteer group operations.
Mar. 21
US
The White House hopes that carrying out this final prototype test will silence critics who say they are lagging behind Russia, China and even North Korea in development of the technology.
Mar. 21
Europe
Europe's press looks hopefully to this three-country format, which has been dubbed the "Weimar Triangle" since a meeting of foreign ministers in the central German city of Weimar in 1991.
Mar. 21
RDK/LSR
Russian anti-Kremlin volunteers appealed to the regional governor, saying he would be responsible for new victims if the evacuation of the population does not take place shortly.
Mar. 21
Putin
Proposed changes to Russia’s current laws will see military contracts and pardons offered to suspected or convicted criminals who are at any stage of the criminal process.
Mar. 21
Poland
Erstwhile moderate Dmitry Medvedev outdoes himself with another of his twisted commentaries on the likely outcome of a French “interventionist contingent” coming to Ukraine.
Mar. 20
Drones
Comments by troops fighting on the Dnipro left bank agree with the view of analysts that masses of UAVs make movement dangerous for both Ukrainian and Russian forces.
Mar. 20
Ukraine
Mass protests by Polish farmers on Wednesday, March 20 saw almost all major highways as well as many other minor roads being blocked throughout Poland.
Mar. 20
War in Ukraine
On Tuesday, the IOC barred Russian athletes from taking part in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics on July 26 and criticised the Kremlin for planning to hold its own "Friendship Games."
Mar. 20
Belgorod
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov restricts entry to seven settlements starting March 20. The regional authorities plan to implement a “visiting procedure” for residential buildings.
Mar. 20
Russia
In a speech at the FSB spy service’s annual meeting, Putin said its spies should work with other agencies to increase the security of the banking and financial systems.
Mar. 20
War in Ukraine
The FSB did not name the suspect, but said he was a resident of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a remote Russian city in the far eastern region of Khabarovsk.
Mar. 20
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The Belarusian leader’s comments to Russian media were in response to a question concerning the challenges the Union State of Russia and Belarus is facing.
Oct. 25