By Özgür Altınbaş, Donetsk / Russia Vittorio Nicola Rangeloni, a Russian/Italian journalist living in Donetsk, described the latest situation on the Ukrainian front. “Having lost control of Ugledar, Selidovo and Gornyak, the Ukrainian army is about to lose control of Kurakhovo,” Rangeloni said, noting that Russian armed forces are constantly advancing on the Donbass front. Emphasizing that all these places ...
By Yiğit Saner, Donbass / Russia As invited guests of the Moscow-based “Culture Volunteers” we visited Donbass. Here is a war zone since 2014. The press tour was between 1-4 October. The aim of the tour has been organized for five years to let journalist witness realities of Donbass with their own eyes, that the reality is quite different than ...
West Asia is going through historic days. The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh by Israel in Tehran is on the world agenda. Iran’s response is being discussed. Meanwhile Türkiye and Syria are likely to take steps towards normalisation after 11 years. How does Russia view the developments in West Asia? I asked Viacheslav Matuzov, one of Russia’s experienced diplomats ...
The official authorities of Mali are preparing to make an official claim against Kyiv, after the leadership of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine admitted its coordination of separatist groups that are waging hostilities and regularly committing terrorist acts against civilians. This happened after the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukrainian Ministry of Defense took responsibility for the Russian ...
By Gökalp Erbaş The foreign agent law, as it is known in the public opinion, appears under different names and scopes in the laws of each country where it is in force. Although it came into force in the Russian Federation in 2012 and a similar law was discussed in Ukraine in 2014, it is actually a much older law. ...
The Russian Investigative Committee reported that 19 people, including 15 police officers and 4 civilians, were killed in armed attacks on June 23 in the cities of Makhachkala and Derbent in the Dagestan region. The Committee also shared that two of three terrorists involved in the attack are sons and the other is nephew of the head of the Sergekola ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Historians describe the 1789 French Revolution as a “rupture”. The political, economic, and cultural upheaval that occurred in France following the Storming of the Bastille, which shook the world, is described as a “rupture”, a radical break from the established order. Today, we are in the midst of a significant global rupture process. Chinese President Xi ...
On May 14, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin appointed Andrey Belousov as Minister of Defense, who previously worked as First Deputy Prime Minister. For many, this was an unexpected appointment, some expected the reappointment of Sergei Shoigu, others bet that a person from military circles would become the new minister. But Andrey Belousov is a civil minister, an ...
We bring to your attention the article by Russian economist Sergey Glazyev, in which he examines the Russian economy’s struggle against Western sanctions. Glazyev’s article was first published in Russian in the magazine “Zavtra”. The title and subtitles in the English translation were put by UWI. Russia has restored dignity to its military, military-industrial complex and foreign policy. This hat-trick ...
By Sergey Aksyonov The role of Vladimir Lenin in the history of Russia is considered “positive” or “rather positive” by two thirds (67%) of the population. Only 17% assess it “negatively” or “rather negatively”. The rest found it difficult to answer. Such data were obtained in the course of the Levada-Centre poll. Soon, the revenge of the leftist idea? So ...