Cease-Fire May Not Resolve Tensions Between Azerbaijan and Armenia
Azerbaijan announced a unilateral cease-fire in its ongoing conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory, which lies within Azerbaijan's borders...
Vladimir Putin
Russia ramps up rhetoric in wake of downed jet
Outraged by the downing of a Su-24 jet that appears to have violated Turkish airspace, Russian president Vladimir Putin is...
NATO member Turkey raises the stakes, shoots down Russian jet
In what could mark a turning point in the Syrian civil war, a Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24...
Russian ground troops may be deployed in Syria
In what may have been an inadvertent slip-up, Russian state TV broadcast footage yesterday of a military briefing in which...
Venezuela elections, al-Shabaab returns to Kenya, Assad in Moscow, Chinese espionage at NASA…
Venezuela extends state of emergency as elections loom President Nicolas Maduro has extended the state of emergency in Tachira, which...
Russia’s endgame in Syria: Follow the Money
As Vladimir Putin orders airstrikes against rebels of all stripes fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime, there are important strategic economic goals...
What now? How to deal with the utter collapse of Obama’s Syria-Iraq strategy
A year ago, in response to the growing strength of ISIS and outrage over internet videos of ISIS beheadings, President...
Russian Spies Evicted From NATO, Nemtsov Report Released
NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg revealed in an interview with The Guardian that NATO is reestablishing Cold War-era hotlines to...
Putin Gets GPS Base in the Americas (ENG & ESP)
Nicaragua’s parliament has accepted a deal in which Russia will be allowed to open and operate a satellite ground station...
Putin and Kirchner’s “Trade” Talks (ENG & ESP)
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday to start off bilateral trade talks. This...
Hostile Activity Grossly Underreported in the Western Hemisphere
General John F. Kelly, United States Marine Corp Commander for Southcom, presented to the Senate Armed Service Committee last week...
Was The Kremlin Behind Boris Nemtsov’s Murder?
Supporters of democracy and free-market capitalism in Russia suffered a tragic loss February 27th with the murder of the prominent...
Aleksandr Dugin: Putin’s Rasputin?
Those trying to understand the goals of Russian expansion in their former Soviet sphere of influence and it's recent alliances...
Nemtsov’s Death No Accident, Comrade
The assassination outside the Kremlin last week of Vladimir Putin’s most prominent and effective critic was, as the communists used...
The “Ceasefire” in Ukraine & Russian Expansion
Despite the signing of a ceasefire in Minsk on February 12th, Russian-backed rebels continued their attack on the loyalist town...
Cold War Copy Cat
Last November, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would begin initial talks with Peru and Nicaragua regarding technical and...