Rich Russians flock to Florida to deliver American babies
AFP | In southern Florida's Sunny Isles Beach, Russian tourists Anna and Helen sip coffee with their husbands and newborn babies: a common scene in...
Parade to mark wartime siege stirs anger in Saint Petersburg
AFP | Plans for a military parade in Saint Petersburg marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad have provoked an...
Players’ Skewed Maps complicate Eurasia’s 21st Century Great Game – Dr. James M Dorsey
Dr. James M Dorsey | The United States and China are playing Eurasia’s 21st-century Great Game from different but equally skewed maps. While the US...
Russia avoids new doping penalties over missed deadline
AFP | Russia remains under scrutiny even though it will not be punished for missing a December deadline to allow access to the Moscow laboratory...
Russian row over ‘Siege of Leningrad’ black comedy
AFP | A "blasphemous" re-telling of one of the darkest moments in Soviet history or a much-needed comment on modern Russia? A new comedy set...
Turkey can’t leverage US-Russia tensions in Syria forever
M K Bhadrakumar | Turkey has so far played Washington and Moscow off against each other over the Syrian situation by leveraging its importance as...
The new Arms Race in the 21st century – Dr. Zafar Jaspal
Dr. Zafar Jaspal | The bipartisan nuclear arms control framework constituted during the Cold War is in the process of expiring. On 20 October 2018,...
The New Cold War may never arrive – M K Bhadrakumar
M K Bhadrakumar | An old Italian friend and a noted Sinologist based in Beijing representing a Vatican paper, Francesco Sisci wrote apropos an article...
Russian army starts patrols around Manbij in North Syria
AFP | Russian military police have begun patrolling around the Syrian city of Manbij, a spokesman said, moving into an area once held by US-backed...
Russia accuses BBC of spreading ‘terrorist’ ideologies
AFP | Russia's media watchdog accused the BBC Thursday of spreading the ideologies of "terrorist groups" via online publications of its Russian service, the latest...
Trump campaign chief gave polling data to Russian
AFP | Donald Trump's one-time presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted in a court filing Tuesday he provided polling data from the campaign to a...
Turkey trial opens into Russian ambassador’s 2016 killing
AFP | Twenty-eight suspects went on trial Tuesday over the assassination of the Russian ambassador two years ago, including a US-based Muslim preacher blamed by...