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Putin’s Middle East Trip Deals a Blow to Washington

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to the Middle East – and the 21-gun salute welcome he received there – shows the failure of Washington’s consistent attempts to ‘isolate’ and defeat Russia. The visit also points to the Middle East’s increasing shift away from, and sole reliance on, Washington. Ever since the beginning of the Gaza War on October 7, the Middle East has been keeping contact with China, rather than the US, its first priority. The reason for this is not simply the fact that the US is supporting, militarily and diplomatically, Israel against Palestine, but…

Salman Rafi Sheikh

News of the assassination attempt on Kim Jong Un

The style of North Korean propaganda is peculiar enough that many people cling to it rather than the substance of the messages, preferring to declare them propaganda statements denouncing non-existent enemies. However, over time, what the audience perceived as propaganda fairy tales turned out not to be fairy tales at all. Suffice it to recall the “blowing up statues of leaders by drone” repeatedly quoted by the author. When the North Koreans first announced the disclosure of such plans, most people marvelled at their absurdity: blowing up statues of leaders with drones sent from China…

Konstantin Asmolov

Europe is freezing and on the brink of a severe economic crisis

According to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), “the prospect of the EU receiving more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Egypt in the short and medium term looks unachievable due to tight gas balances and reduced imports form Israel.” Or, to put it in less academic terms, we can say that this is clearly what Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, namely that Europe, which has followed the US line and refused to buy cheap Russian gas, has caused itself and its people lasting economic, financial and political harm. Last year, for example, Egypt shipped 80 percent…

Viktor Mikhin

Lessons of the Tehran Conference: the West continues to violate agreements, and, with promises of peace, prepares for war.

Yuliya Novitskaya

On the current condition of relations between the PRC and the EU on the eve of the summit

Vladimir Terehov

Rapprochement Between Turkey and Iran Amid the Gaza Conflict

Alexandr Svaranc

Secret 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, Impact on the Middle East: Palestinian-Arab Israeli Conflict

Seth Ferris

Some comments on the most recent OSCE Ministers’ meeting

Anvar Azimov

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