Europe

Kamil Askerkhanov29.10.2026

With so much contradictory information circulating about the October 27 telephone conversation between Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a few things are worth clarifying. First, Stubb and Støre were not speaking on behalf of the European Union. Not in the slightest. The official statement went […]

Sergey Stankevich24.10.2026

The first tankers carrying diesel loaded at Russia’s Baltic port of Primorsk are already on their way to their destinations. The diesel deal between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin began on October 9th, 2026, following a lengthy telephone conversation in which the two presidents agreed on its terms. Mr Trump announced the agreement on Truth […]

Kamil Askerkhanov08.09.2026

The Economist recently published a timely warning: America’s sovereign debt is massive, but Europe faces the true existential crisis. The most revealing aspect of this predicament, however, is not the raw figures. It is the question of why the structural cracks in the European architecture are suddenly erupting into the open right now. The underlying […]

Vladimir Golstein05.02.2026

How and why Germans have lost it, is not clear to me. I don’t live in the country and I don’t have a way to study events all the way to their causes. But the results are obvious for anyone to see. Here is an emblem of what I am talking about. Long time ago, […]

Vladimir Morozov31.01.2026

Colleagues note the growing Russophobia in Europe: “The best argument for European politicians is the “Russian threat”. They invented it themselves…” However, this is only partly true. Indeed, the thesis about the alleged impending Russian aggression against NATO is detached from reality, especially against the backdrop of the almost 4-year long Special Military Operation (SMO). […]

Kirill Benediktov22.01.2026

I see how, against the backdrop of NATO’s crisis over Greenland, the idea of creating a “new joint Russian-European security architecture on the continent” is gaining popularity in the expert community, including, of course, security guarantees for Ukraine. “Together with Europe (and China) – against America!” This idea is naturally supported primarily by the pro-Ukrainian […]

Sergey Stankevich17.01.2026

The Czech government, led by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, has received a vote of confidence in parliament and has officially begun work. This will be an extremely rare government in today’s Europe, almost unique. It will focus—you won’t believe it!—on the problems of its own population and the needs of its voters. Almost all other […]

Vladimir Golstein28.09.2025

This is too funny to miss. Dostoevsky complaining about lies and BS that western press publishes about Russia. Not much has changed since then. European and American media is as bigoted and as myopic now as it was 150 years ago. And probably even more mean-spirited. In 1868, while in France, Dostoevsky drafted a letter […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky21.05.2025

First impressions. And what’s next? 1). The negotiations were clearly not going smoothly. Trump desperately needs “at least something”, and preferably “peace at any cost”. Such a peace does not suit Russia and Putin, and this is a critical, vital impossibility. 2). Trump did not succumb to pressure from European “partners” (who are in fact […]

Vladimir Golstein25.03.2025

In his War and Peace, Tolstoy has an amazing image of Napoleon, as the French army is being kicked out of Russia. Tolstoy compares him to a child sitting deep in a horse carriage, who pulls the curtain strings and thinks that these actions direct the horse. For Tolstoy, Napoleon’s invasion had unleashed the forces, […]

Every Nation for Itself—or the Rat Race Begins

The Diesel Deal Gets Moving

Who Will Inherit Old Europe’s Tab?

Germany: The Key to What Happened to Europe

Russophobia in Europe

Arm in Arm with America

A Czech Phenomenon

Dostoevsky About European Views on Russia

Telephone Conversation Between Putin and Trump

Naive Zelensky Believes in Europe

Every Nation for Itself—or the Rat Race Begins

Russia’s American Temptation

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part II.

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part I.