Tag: Russia
Revisiting Russia’s Near Abroad – Part 1 (Crimea)
There are several reasons for revisiting this dynamic region. The powers that be were preparing for a World War III in 2016 and the...
Geneva III: Deflating the WW III Bubble – Part 3
Geneva III: Russian intervention in Syria maybe the biggest shift of power since Suez
When the Juncker-Stoltenberg statements showed that the Ukrainian crisis had been...
Deflating the WW III Bubble – Part 2: Minsk2 agreement with...
This is a continuation of the article whose Part 1 can be accessed here
But the West were hatching plans to attack Russia since 2009-10,...
Deflating the WW III Bubble – Part 1: Ukraine
How tension in Ukraine was diffused
From 2014 to 2015 events were trending towards a major world war. Ukraine president talked of launching a World...
Cabinet approves Japanese, Russian railway agreements
Ministry of Railways signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with Japan and Russia for technical cooperation in the railways, satellite and geo-information technologies among...
Russia flexes its military muscles
Russia has been able to counter pressure from the West
This is the fourth part in a five part series on Russia. For the first...
Will Russia bail Europe out?
This is the fourth part in a five part series. For the first three, click here.
The hawk-eyed forex specialist George Soros14 always felt that...
Investors should take a look at Russia
Investors should see Russia as a risk/ reward equation.
There is one significant fallout of the Khodorkovsky incident. His Yukos shares were passed on to...
Russia: National Security, Near Abroad – Part 2
There are about 20 million ethnic Russians living abroad, of which 17.3 million, or 86.5%, are in Russia’s Near Abroad. Russia has therefore to...
Russia: National Security – Part 1
A second look at Russia’s Near Abroad needs to be made; the first was done in The Age of Neo-Imperialism. Russia’s creation of Novorossiya...
