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Dmitri Drobnitsky20.10.2026

The Starshield Controversy and the Question of Presidential Authority. Reuters appears to be pursuing a sustained effort to establish one politically consequential proposition: that an order to restrict Ukraine’s access to SpaceX’s Starshield services originated in the White House, but not with President Donald Trump. A new Reuters report, already generating considerable discussion in the […]

Kamil Askerkhanov18.10.2026

The conflict in Ukraine is inexorably approaching its end. Yet the cessation of hostilities will leave behind questions far more complicated than those currently being discussed at the negotiating table. What political order will emerge in the region? Where will new borders be drawn? And what security architecture will take shape amid the ruins of […]

Sergey Stankevich16.10.2026

How a fuel shortage has entangled geopolitics, energy markets and America’s midterm elections Thousands of social-media commentators who were discussing America, Iran or Ukraine only yesterday have abruptly discovered a new obsession: the global diesel crisis. As usual, a torrent of ill-informed commentary threatens to drown out the few surviving voices of reason. Let us […]

Yuri Chekalin14.10.2026

That winter I turned fifty-four, and I’d just about stopped expecting anything to happen to me. It wasn’t despair. It was more like the way you stop hearing your refrigerator. It hums somewhere in the background. You know it’s humming, but after a while you no longer notice. I translated articles from Russian into English […]

Kamil Askerkhanov13.10.2026

The past few days’ events make it worth returning to a concept I first outlined back in 2023: Europe’s energy ring-fencing. What we may now be seeing is the transition to a new stage. After restricting access to energy supplies, the battle appears to be shifting toward control over their eventual return to the European […]

Kirill Benediktov12.10.2026

Another thaw has arrived in U.S.-Russian relations. Donald Trump finally called Vladimir Putin to wish him a happy birthday. A little late, admittedly. Putin’s birthday was October 7; the call came on October 9. Even allowing for the time difference, Trump was more than a day behind schedule. But never mind. Wishing someone a happy […]

Robert Reich11.10.2026

The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm. Two growing phenomena — climate change and AI — pose escalating risks of extraordinary harm. Climate change is already causing floods, wildfires, drought, and record heat. AI agents are already escaping super-secure environments to hack into systems they’re supposed to avoid. Yet Trump […]

Robert Reich10.10.2026

Here’s today’s trivia question (which may turn out to be not at trivial at all when all the facts emerge): Who solicited money from a presidential donor in return for access to the head of the IRS over the donor’s taxes, was a Fox News host, was engaged to the son of the U.S. president, […]

Vladimir Golstein09.10.2026

What is Going on in Germany, and is this the Waning of Anglo-American Influence? German elite had been successfully colonized by English. English language, English thinking, English rhetoric, English sensitivity, English/American Political Correctness and simplifying political discourse. The result of this colonizing is obvious as are its goals — ever since the war with Napoleon […]

Paul Sadchikov06.10.2026

I’m pretty much like everyone else, with one small exception: I collect countries, roads, and people. Because I’m a traveler. To me, the ideal traveler is someone with an almost unreasonable sense of curiosity. Someone who doesn’t particularly care whether the next leg of the journey involves walking, driving, sailing, or flying. What matters is […]

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