Russia’s determination to defy the West’s sanctions was on display at its Davos equivalent in St. Petersburg, with President Vladimir Putin looking…

Nine months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the West imposed sanctions on Russian oil, later targeting diesel and other refined products too. From 5…

“If you look at Russia today, military production goes up, and consumption goes down. That is pretty much what the Soviet Union used to look like…

“Despite the—let’s be honest—pessimistic prognoses that were made and that continue to be made by some experts today, mostly Western experts, of…

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page”.This famous quote is attributed to the theologian Saint Augustine from the…

Just three days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the head of the European Commission said Russian planes were no longer welcome over European skies.“We…

The ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh heard bombings and explosions around lunchtime on 19 September 2023.It was the sound confirming…

Within a day of the 7 October attacks, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his people needed to be ready for a “long and difficult war…

Mets Mantash is a village of around 2,500 people in Armenia. The main economic activity is agricultural – growing cheap agricultural products like…

In a deal valued at around $25.7bn, a Russian export firm, EPT grain export company, signed an agreement on 17 October 2023, to supply China with 70…