Chechen Strongman Kadyrov Puts Children Into MMA Fight
byChechen ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been broadly criticized after he entered his three sons, aged 8, 9 and 10, to fight in a caged mixed-martial-arts fight on…
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Svetova: Nekrasov Anti-Magnitsky Film Propaganada, not Art
by“I am not Mr. Browder’s attorney. I am defending the memory of Sergei Magnitsky. Therefore, I consider the film by Andrey Nekrasov to be…
Russian Fighters Violate Estonian and Finnish Airspace
byThe Estonian Ministry of Defence says that a Russian SU-27 Flanker, has violated Estonian airspace with its transponders turned off. This is the fifth…
Dutch Investigators Blame Finland
byUPDATED OCTOBER 6 Confusion over data that the Finnish government allegedly withheld from Dutch investigators regarding the 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17,…
Russian Bomber Flies Dangerously Close To Icelandic Airliner
byRussian Tupolev Tu-22m nuclear bombers fly into Icelandic air traffic control area and dangerously close to a Stockholm bound civilian airliner. Long-range Russian bombers…
Hitler-Stalin Pact Still Casts a Shadow Over Europe 77 Years On
bySeventy-seven years ago, Hitler and Stalin reached the agreement on the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of influence, an agreement known as the…
A Pedigree of Repression: Putin’s New Chief-of-Staff
byVladimir Putin has tapped deep into a line of dependable Soviet era nomenklatura, reaching back to the time of Stalin, to appoint his latest…
If Trump Wins . . .
byThe grand national political conventions in the US have ended and the Republicans have chosen Donald Trump as their candidate. It’s an unbelievable result….
The Problem With Finland
byI will start by stating the obvious: There have been several episodes and instances in the information domain in and around Finland that are simply…
Warsaw Summit: good but not yet enough
byWarsaw was the best NATO summit since the end of the Cold War. Serious people made serious decisions about serious problems. Taboos tumbled. Russia…