Interview of the editor-in-chief of RT and the media group «russia today» Margarita Simonian with the russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov
The interview has sparked unprecedentedly wide response both in Ukraine and the West predominantly because of Lavrov’s announcement of russia having territorial ambitions beyond Donetsk and Luhansk regions. But other Lavrov’s high profile “confessions” has gone unnoticed against the backdrop of discussion about his, detached from reality, assertions. In this…
Reasons for the collapse of small and medium-sized businesses in russia
The report of the Ministry of Economic Development of russia states: in the first half of 2022, the number of citizens in russia who filed for bankruptcy increased by 37.8% compared to the same period in 2021. More than 121,000 citizens of the russian federation liquidated their assets to pay…
Reasons and outcomes of declaration of Russia being the state maintaining terrorism
CCD ( The Center Countering Disinformation) analyses the appeal of the House of Representatives of US’s speaker Nansy Pelosi to the Secretary of State Blinken to officially declare Russia as a state sponsoring terrorism. A state-sponsor of terrorism is a country which, according to official perception of the US State…
The consequences of restrictions on the import of russian gold to the EU
Due to the russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission announced the seventh package of sanctions against the russian federation. The new package of sanctions is aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the previous six packages of sanctions and also implies the prohibition of the import of russian gold to…
Reasons for russia’s tactics of mass eviction of residents of the TOT(temporarily occupied territory) of Southern Ukraine
Reasons and consequences of russia’s tactics of mass eviction of residents of the occupied part of Southern Ukraine. Russian occupation forces in Khersonshchyna report that residents will be forcibly evicted from the oblast if they do not comply with their “orders”. The “document” was signed by the so-called head of…
How lavrov justifies russian terror
From Head of MFA russia s. lavrov’s article “about staging as a method of the West’s politics”. The chief kremlin diplomat thinks of the war in Ukraine as an ‘unfair play of the West’. In his opinion, russian army kills tens of thousands of Ukrainians and destroys the infrastructure of…
The reasons and consequences of putting the rf’s economy on a war footing
On July 14, 2022, putin signed Federal Law No. 272-FZ “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation”, which allows the government to put the country’s economy on a war footing during so-called military operations abroad. The explanatory note to the draft law recognizes that in the conditions…
Reasons for putin’s bravado «generally speaking, we haven’t even started anything yet»
Once again, the russian federation rejects the effectiveness of Western sanctions and claims that the economy retains “stability of work and positive dynamics of development.” But russia has lost a significant part of the European market and access to the components for russian industry. Difficulties arose with the production and…
The influence of Iranian drones on training and the course of the russian war against Ukraine
According to Jake Sullivan, it is still not clear whether Iran managed to provide Russia with these drones, however, according to the information available in the White House, there is some evidence that Teheran is preparing to train Russian personnel to use drones in July. Drones have become an important…
Probable consequences of the resignation of the Prime Minister of Great Britain for Ukraine
What consequences are likely to be caused for Ukraine by British Prime Minister’s resignation? On July 7, 2022, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation. The resignation has come as the result of numerous scandals, including the parties and gatherings of government at the pandemic peak (Partygate scandal) and…
The kremlin loses its post-Soviet influence position in Asia russia and former Soviet Union: how the kremlin loses its position in Asia?
Control over the political elites of the post-Soviet countries of Central Asia remains extremely important for the kremlin. After all, the events in Dushanbe (capital of Tajikistan) and Ashgabat (capital of Turkmenistan), make explicit that putin is gradually losing control over the Asian countries. That is why the only worked-out…
The tendency of russia’s return to the Stalin era
putin returns to Stalin’s methods of terror in his own country The State Duma of the russian federation adopted in the first reading a draft law, which increases the punishment under several articles of the Criminal Code, and, most importantly, introduces a new article concerning high treason. The future article…
