For those unfamiliar with this part of the world, the Dnieper River rises in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. This sea is making headlines today due to Ukraine's peace negotiations for...

The Arctic Council comprises eight Arctic States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States, plus six Permanent Participants representing Indigenous people. It was established on 19 September 19, 1996, when the...

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the German city of Munich is often mentioned with negative connotations. The Beer Hall Putsch on November 8-9, 1923, also known as the Munich Putsch, by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler brought him to the attention of the...

When the world lives in anticipation of whether Trump's second term brings promised peace and reduces the risk of nuclear WWIII, the war party is pushing its agenda. The magazine Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of the influential Council of Foreign Relations (CFR),...

As the drumbeats of war are sounding loud and the warmongering rhetoric has gotten shrill, a group of Russian and American activists assembled in downtown Moscow to replant once again the symbolic US-Russia friendship birch tree that was initially planted nine years...

Those familiar with the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin's biography would assume that the connection is his birthday date, June 6, the same as the beginning of the Normandy landing. But, as will be explained later, the connection is much deeper. Given the growing...

An unusual gathering took place in Washington on May 21, 2024. At a time when US-Russia relations hit the lowest historical level, when Washington keeps pumping tens of billions of dollars plus huge volumes of all kinds of weapons in its proxy war with Russia in...

The recent statement by the former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, "We slaughtered people in massive numbers, innocent people who had nothing to do with their government, men, women, and children," is a rare admission by someone in his rank. At the same time, in...

I am speaking about a $95-billion foreign military aid package that included $61 billion for Ukraine. Speaker Mike Johnson's turnaround from opponent to supporter of the war in Ukraine raised many eyebrows. His meeting with Trump in advance of this announcement added...

At a recent seminar sponsored by the two primary Washington think tanks, one American and another European, the subject of the war in Ukraine was discussed, as was how two upcoming significant elections in the European Parliament in June and the U.S. President in...