Lev Navrozov While surfing the Russian Internet the other day, I came upon the Snob site (www.snob.ru), an “international Russian-language media project, which was launched in 2008, with the aim to connect international and global audience of influential, high-net worth individuals.” One item jumped at me right away: “Lessons of Patriotism from Tim Kirby,” an […]
Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com In a stunning change in policy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said that the Kremlin would have no objection if the Syrian people decided that President Bashar Assad must step down, as happened in Yemen in February when former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh ceded power after a year of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has renewed talks for additional unmanned aerial vehicles from Israel. Officials said the Kremlin was negotiating with Israel to develop a joint UAV that could be also sold to third countries. They said any new unmanned platform would be produced in Russia for its military and security forces. “We […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The administration of President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Russia was preparing to deliver attack helicopters to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Officials said the helicopters included Mi-24s, used in operations against Sunni rebels and civilians. “We are concerned about the latest information we have that there are […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Shadows of the Cold War returned to the UN during the recent elections for President of the General Assembly where a previously agreed to candidate from Lithuania was challenged, and subsequently defeated, by a Russian-backed contender from Serbia. What was originally expected to be a consensus vote selecting a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Given Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s announcement earlier this month that the Pentagon is set to station some 60 percent of its naval capacity in the Asia-Pacific theater, the Chinese leadership has good reasons to play up the significance of the visit of newly re-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bill this week that would blacklist several dozen Russian officials linked to the November 2009 death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The Kremlin has responded vehemently to the proposed action, promising to blacklist certain U.S. officials from entering […]
Lev Navrozov Before the 1917 revolution in Russia and for a while after it, no one paid attention to the meaning of the words involved, though the meanings of words are decisive in the brain work — in thinking and its conclusions, incarnated in the words of the language of a given nation. In Russian, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Libya has determined that nationals from former Soviet republics served as mercenaries for the late Col. Moammar Gadhafi. Officials said the National Transitional Council identified and arrested a range of Russian and other nationals as fighters for Gadhafi in the war in 2011. The officials said many of them operated […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Knicaid The major news organizations have been driven by the Drudge Report and WorldNetDaily to cover protests against a meeting of the “Bilderbergers” at a Marriott hotel outside Washington, D.C. The stories usually feature Alex Jones, a Texas-based radio host who regularly appears on Moscow-funded Russia Today (RT) television, or […]