Restoring the Russian economy. Alexei Kudrin, the former Treasury minister and current head of the Accounts Chamber of Russia, has revealed the details of a three-stage plan to improve Russia’s economy by increasing gross domestic product by at least 2.5 percent by 2021, lowering unemployment to 5 percent and jacking up real household income. It […]
As cases of COVID-19 resurge elsewhere in the world, it’s worth remembering that Australia whipped the coronavirus into submission with relative ease, reducing the...
Halford Mackinder, one of the founding fathers of geopolitics, said that if the Heartland was unstable, the world was unstable. And since the Heartland...
Russia redirects exports. Russia’s Ministry of Energy instructed Russian oil companies to redirect a significant portion of oil products meant for export to the...
A longstanding struggle between the services of Iran’s armed forces spilled into the open this week after the government’s official news agency published an...
31 years after Tiananmen Square. Thursday is the 31st anniversary of the deadly crackdown in Tiananmen Square, when the military opened fire on thousands...
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