Category: Vitaly Portnikov

Russian presidential foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov has said that practical preparations are already underway for a meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States and the Chinese leader during the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China...

Following agreements between the American and Russian presidents on lifting sanctions on supplies of Russian diesel fuel, a crisis has emerged between the United States and Ukraine...

Meetings between the President of the United States and the leader of China are always treated with particular attention, even though for many years now practically nothing has happened at these meetings...

The President of the United States emphasized that he told the President of Ukraine to stop strikes on Russia’s oil-refining complex because, he claimed, they are causing diesel prices to rise...

Russian officials have stopped being ashamed. Just a few weeks ago, we could still hear the familiar rhetoric about liberating Ukrainians from Nazis, about the dominance of the West supposedly waging war against Russia...

It seems that four and a half years of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine and 12 years of conflict between the two countries provide a clear answer to this question...

Russia continues to exploit Ukraine’s shortage of missiles for Patriot batteries, which are needed to intercept ballistic missiles...

Perhaps July 2026 will go down in the history of the Russian-Ukrainian war as the moment when Ukraine managed to find yet another way to weaken the Russian economy – despite the brutal ballistic attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities...

The image of “Crimea Island,” of course, is associated with the famous anti-Soviet dystopia by Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov. It was actively used during the occupation...