Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Washington’s non-military sanctions against Russia’s adventurist gambits in Ukraine is getting personal with the reported public disclosure of Vladimir Putin’s enormous, certainly ill-gotten, assets in a Swiss bank account worth more than $40 billion. Putin’s Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the reported measure “absurd,” believing it was a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — After nearly two and a half years of a Sunni revolt, Saudi Arabia has turned to Russia to end the war in Syria. Saudi Arabia sent its intelligence chief to meet with the Russian leadership in what could be the first direct talks on ending the civil war in Syria. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Kremlin is adamant that rumors about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ill health are only rumors. But Putin has not been meeting his scheduled events over the past couple of months. In early November, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin suffered from some illness. He denied […]