Moscow Dispatch: The Rise of Right-Wing Radicalism in Russia

Yaroslav Lebedev (Left to Right) Konstantin Malofeev, Lt. General Leonid Reshetnikov and Aleksandr Dugin. Right-wing radicals and neo-fascists have become more powerful in Russia over the past few years.  After the Soviet Union collapsed, the new, aggressively anti-communist government of Boris Yeltsin overthrew the weak social-democratic government of Mikhail Gorbachev, and two right-wing Russian structures…

Russian Plane With Medical Equipment Lands at New York’s JFK Airport

Sputnik The United States is currently the nation hit hardest by the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), topping the global infection tally with more than 206,200 cases registered, according to the Johns Hopkins University count. A Russian Air Force Antonov An124 carrying medical equipment to help fight the COVID-19 outbreak has landed at New York’s JFK…

Can COVID-19 Take Down NATO?

Ann Garrison The Pentagon insisted on going ahead with provocative NATO war games near Russia’s borders, despite the coronavirus epidemic, but Germany pulled its forces out and closed its roads to troop movements. “The virus will spread on the more than 800 US bases strategically scattered around the globe, causing worry and fear in the…

Operation Barbarossa II: Setting The Stage For War

Christopher Black I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for as of the last week in January the Americans and their gang of…

A Silence Not at All Casual

Atilio Borón This February 2nd was the anniversary of a date that was completely ignored by the deceitful global hegemonic press: the end of the Battle of Stalingrad (according to historians the bloodiest in the history of humanity) with the defeat of Hitler’s Wehrmacht at the hands of the Red Army and the civilian combatants…

Libya Talks in Moscow Progress but Fail to Reach Agreement on Ceasefire

The Address | Benghazi – Libya MOSCOW – Talks aimed at agreeing an unconditional and open-ended ceasefire in Libya failed to achieve a breakthrough on Monday despite making good progress, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters. Lavrov said some sides in the conflict had signed the ceasefire deal, but that Khalifa Haftar, commander of…

Russia–Africa Summit: New Opportunities for Military Cooperation

Dmitry Bokarev Following the Russia–Africa Summit and Economic Forum held in Sochi in October 2019, the Russian Federation and the African states reached a new level of cooperation, characterized by increased economic interaction. First off, Russia decided to increase food exports to the African continent since food shortages for Africa are one of its main…