Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia and the Netherlands have accused each other of sending a submarine into Swedish territorial waters. On Oct. 17, the Swedish military launched a massive search for a mysterious foreign submarine in its territorial waters. The reports led to speculation that the uninvited submarine belonged to Russia and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The recent agreement between Russia and North Korea to use the rubles in all their bilateral trade has raised concerns that it would help Pyongyang dodge U.S-led international sanctions, government officials and analysts here say. In a meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com After the UK, France, the U.S. and other key NATO member states’ suspended all military cooperation with Russia, the Ukrainian government likewise announced it would terminate all joint weapons development projects with Moscow. On the face of it, this would not seem to be a major development considering […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt and Russia have concluded an agreement for a $2 billion weapons deal. Officials said Cairo and the Kremlin concluded three months of negotiations for the sale of Russian helicopters and air defense systems to Egypt. They said the talks focused on financial issues, including repayment terms. “All of the […]
Lev Navrozov Let me recall our release from Russia in the early 1970s. The slave-owning “government” can mistreat any data on anyone and convert to slavery anyone except the “government” slave-owners. Freedom guarantees that the rights of any human being be defended in an independent court of justice if his or her human rights are […]
Lev Navrozov Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of our time. In 1985, at age 22, Kasparov became the youngest-ever undisputed World Chess Champion. In 1989, Kasparov defeated the chess computer Deep Thought in both games of a two-game match. In 1996, he won the match against […]
Lev Navrozov By the autumn of 1917, Russia had become, culturally, a free society. The Russian 19th-century prose was intensely read in all culturally advanced countries, Chekhov’s plays were staged, several composers were considered classical, Chaliapin’s voice was admired… Now, since the autumn of 1917, Lenin, who was only for a short time in power, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Bill Gertz, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russian President Dmitri Medvedev threw down the gauntlet of strategic nuclear escalation in Europe last week. Evidently angry over U.S. missile defense deployments in Europe, Medvedev said Moscow would be bolstering its strategic missiles and planning for new deployments of advanced missiles in southern and western Russia. […]