Article by: Paul Goble Calls across the United States to take down statues honoring figures of the past who abused ethnic minorities have now come to Alaska, where an initiative group in Sitka is seeking the removal or demolition of a statue to Aleksandr Baranov, the ruler of Russian settlements in North America at the end of the 18th and

Russia could provoke another migration crisis in Europe – about a million refugees can be transferred from Libya to the European continent, said in an interview with the Ukrainian news outlet LB.ua Lieutenant General, former commander of the U.S. Armed Forces in Europe Ben Hodges. “If we do nothing to disrupt or limit their actions in Libya, we will get

Russian officials have blasted a New York Times report on alleged Russian bounties offered to Taliban-linked militants in exchange for killing American troops in Afghanistan. Since the story first broke Friday, several American and British media outlets have reported on the U.S. intelligence conclusion that Russia offered cash incentives for dead U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The reports cite anonymous senior officials

Vladimir Putin’s article on the 75th anniversary of the World War II Victory Parade, published in the American magazine The National Interest, aroused the interest of politicians and experts around the world. What is this magazine, who is behind it and what ideas does it promote? In the article, Putin sets out his vision of the causes of World War II,

Russian leadership, by appropriating the laurels of victory over Nazism, seeks to become the same global player as the Soviet Union was during World War II, flying the flag of USSR. “Russia incessantly loses its role and place in global politics, and since 2014, after the start of the aggression against Ukraine, it has fallen into international isolation. However, geopolitical

Brian Whitmore Paul Whelan’s Conviction Shows How the Putin Regime Resembles an Organized Crime Syndicate  Holding a 50-year-old man hostage is a highly unusual form of statecraft. Unless, of course, the state in question behaves like an organized crime syndicate. The sentencing of Paul Whelan to 16 years in a Russian prison colony on flimsy espionage charges this week is

Russia’s constitutional amendments will bring back the Soviet era and end Russia being “ruled by Uncle Sam,” the governor of a southern Siberian region has said in support of the reforms. The amendments, which President Vladimir Putin signed into law in March and Russian voters are expected to back in a July 1 vote, reset the president’s term limits and