Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com In a throwback to the Cold War, Russia announced plans to beef up its submarine patrols of strategic waters around the world. “On June 1 or a bit later we will resume constant patrolling of the world’s oceans by strategic nuclear submarines,” Russian Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Bahrain has ordered natural gas from Russia. Officials said Bahrain would begin importing liquefied natural gas from Russia by 2014. They said Russia would replace Iran as a supplier of liquid gas amid deteriorating relations between Manama and Teheran. “Whether Russia supplies us with Iranian liquid gas or from […]
Lev Navrozov These days we are living in the world in which the future political development of Russia is of great importance to the entire world. Why? Before the “revolution of October 1917,” Russia had been viewed by those most enlightened in the world as a country of great hope. It is beyond an argument […]
Times247.com Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin. … The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has been preparing for the prospect of an Israeli or U.S. air strike on Iran in 2012. Officials said the Kremlin has ordered the military to draft options for a Russian response to any foreign attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. They said the Defense Ministry has established a facility […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The regime of Syria’s Bashar Assad has been receiving a steady supply of weapons from Russia to boost its military capability and maintain its survival in the face of growing international condemnation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended his country’s arms shipments to Damascus. “We don’t supply […]
Sol W. Sanders Minxin Pei, the most original of current Sinologists, makes the point authoritarian/totalitarian regimes inherently prioritize requirements for protecting regime leaders over long-term national interest. To preserve the former’s power, they sacrifice the latter’s needs. In the process, they encourage breakdown in the world order. Beijing is now demonstrating the phenomenon in spades. […]
Lev Navrozov The Russian press reported early in January of 2012 that a week before significant change had taken place in President Dmitri Medvedev’s Administration: Vladislav Surkov, a deputy prime minister in the Russian government, will be responsible for the modernization of education, science, and healthcare as well as for the development of the global […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have lambasted Russia’s veto of a Security Council resolution on Syria, calling it a “travesty,” but did she really think for a moment that Moscow was going to ditch an old political ally? Did Hillary moreover really believe that Beijing was going to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Russian-built Akula II class SSN Nerpa was handed over to an Indian crew as the INS Chakra at a submarine base near Vladivostok on Jan. 23. The 10-year lease will cost New Delhi nearly $1 billion. The 13,500-ton submarine is the 15th vessel in India’s submarine […]