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Sep 29 2025 
Turning point anniversary: UN, How to stop the degradation of global dialogue
Oleg Karpovich, Vice-Rector of the Diplomatic Academy, discusses the current state of the United Nations and how to stop the degradation of global dialogue: Izvestia and Yandex translation
The United Nations has reached its 80th anniversary in a state that can only be described as deplorable. The principles that underpinned the post-World War II Yalta-Potsdam world… Continue reading
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Sep 12 2025 
Training for the Great European War is underway
From Elena Panina, Russtrat.Ru
Exercises before the Great European War
The joint strategic exercise of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation “Zapad-2025” began on September 12. The exercise scenario is based on defense followed by the defeat of “enemy groupings and clearing their territory”. The exercise ends on September 16.
At the… Continue reading
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Sep 09 2025 
From Tianjin and Beijing to Vladivostok, the Eurasia High-Speed Train Keeps-a-Rollin’
History will register that the first week of September 2025 propelled the advent of the Eurasia Century to a whole new level.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
That was the expectation ahead of three crucial intertwined dates: the SCO annual summit in Tianjin; the Victory Day parade in Beijing; and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Yet expectations… Continue reading
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Sep 04 2025 
From Zhongnanhai to Vladivostok
… via the DF-5C express and armored deluxe trains. Judge Nap tries to contain the excitement of our roving eye nomad in encapsulating one of the most transformational weeks of our lives.
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Aug 31 2025 
Last Chinese warning
… the Tianjin SCO summit is a collective demarche by Eurasia, which has united against the United States, the European Union, and their regional allies…
By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
The meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization states that opened in Tianjin today is undoubtedly a diplomatic triumph for China. This was clearly intended by the… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2025 
Venezuela, Russia economic cooperation — Maduro: (aka, you’re messing with my friend!)
Ed Note: This is just a light warning as I read it. Of course Delcy Rodriguez informed Russia on the current military threat from the US. President Putin only referred to Maduro as his friend. We now have China commenting, Iran is comenting and Russia is commenting. Is anyone in… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar,
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Moscow, August 21, 2025
Ladies and gentlemen,My Indian colleague and friend Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and I had talks as part of the Minister’s visit to the… Continue reading
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Aug 20 2025 
India, China, Russia: Money, Oil and Business (and a feint voice in the background)
India may just be swinging to BRICS. On a different note, we may say India is competing and working hard to get the I in BRICS back, since we’ve given that I to Iran and Indonesia.
Some details are from S L Kanthan in this story that reads like the Christian story of The Prodigal Son… Continue reading
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Aug 18 2025 
What really happened in Alaska
The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
Alaska was not only about Ukraine. Alaska was mostly about the world’s top two nuclear powers attempting to rebuild trust and apply the… Continue reading
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Aug 17 2025 
The Delicate Exit
“Now let them seek a delicate exit from the mess they’ve gotten themselves into — but we will achieve our objectives.” — VVP
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
My coalescing sense of the underwhelming Alaska Chats is that Russia has not materially varied from its longstanding terms.
Trump rolled into town with his “stealth” flyover, imagining he was… Continue reading
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Aug 16 2025 
Trump received the War’s Victor
Michael von der Schulenburg: Alaska Meeting Was a “Game Changer”
Excellent discussion and correct preliminary conclusion. “Trust-building” was leitmotif, to halt the runaway train to nuclear war. Reality between the two who count are now materially different. Europeans stand alone, and will cast off by Empire. “The Peace” is gonna be imposed on the crazed Europeans,… Continue reading
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Aug 14 2025 
Russian Defence Minister holds talks with heads of defence departments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger
Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov held a meeting with the heads of defence departments of the Confederation of Sahel States member countries (Burkina Faso, the Republic of Mali, the Republic of the Niger).
‘Today, we are holding the first consultations between the heads of the defence departments of the Russian Federation and… Continue reading
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Aug 13 2025 
Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale stare down Goldfinger
Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting.
Across the world, for those who grew up in the Cold War Swingin’ Sixties, the temptation is… Continue reading
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Aug 13 2025 
Stanislav Krapivnik: Russian Breakthrough goes deep
Stanislav talks about a few things but what is most important is to understand how the Russian SMO is just wailing ahead at this time. Over the past number of months many people have said Russia is moving ‘faster’. For me it was more as if the Ukraine front line is falling faster,… Continue reading
