France witnessed its largest protests in recent years against the rising cost of living. Police estimated attendance at 550,000, while organizers put the figure at 800,000. The demonstrations brought ...

It is essential to distinguish between three levels of potential Russian influence: political coordination, financial dependence, and Hungarian officials carrying out tasks in Moscow’s interests. Each ...

Reports that Russian storage bases were replenished with tanks, armored personnel carriers, and artillery systems during 2026 may indicate an important shift in the allocation of resources within ...

The Russian-Slovak intergovernmental commission meeting scheduled for November 25, 2026, in Moscow represents more than a rou ...

Statements by Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National, RN), threatening to block the European Union’s 2028–2034 budget and end bilateral military assistance ...

Twenty-eight-year-old Daria Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, died after developing severe pneumonia. About 200 contacts were placed under medical observation, some ...

Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Valdai Club meeting on October 1, 2026, is important less for the novelty of Russia’s demands than for the moment at which they were formulated. It came after an ...

On September 25, 2026, the state agency RIA Novosti published a column by Alexander Nosovich titled “Russia Faces Another Special Military Operation. It Will Be Very Short.” The publication by the ...

The available evidence is therefore insufficient to establish with confidence whether Tanguy deliberately used the historical allusion. Yet the political significance of the incident goes beyond ...

The leak of A7’s internal documents reveals the emergence of a parallel mechanism for international settlements in which export revenues from Russian oil provided the foreign-currency liquidity needed ...

The probability of a direct military confrontation between Sudan and Ethiopia has increased substantially in 2026, although a deliberate, full-scale interstate war remains constrained by the fact that ...

South Sudan is formally scheduled to hold its first national elections since independence on 22 December 2026. President Salva Kiir’s government insists that the vote will proceed, and in recent ...