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Since Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine Central Asian states and the EU have been forging ties to end their reliance on the sanctioned country

The Prime Minister's party took millions of pounds in funding from Russia-linked individuals, while rewarding those who played into Putin's hands

Putin may replace his long-standing Defence Minister but cannot tackle the real cause of his disastrous foreign policy – himself

Amid massive public protests and deepening international pressure, the ruling Georgian Dream party has said it may be willing to negotiate on their controversial ‘Russian law'

Georgia’s accelerating authoritarian slide into Russia’s orbit has now seen its government launch a full-scale Belarusian-style crackdown on opposition voices.

Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, DC, after assaulting a contributor to The Grayzone at an event hosted by a neocon Beltway think tank.  The Ukrainian-Canadian host of a self-styled ‘anti-disinformation’ outfit — which receives thousands of dollars from the US and UK governments and works with Facebook to censor content — was arrested on Capitol Hill last week after assaulting a contributor to The […]

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has cost it thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars - but its military influence has also taken a major hit

The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inflicted by… a government,” they have no responsibility to pay for damages to the pipelines. To succeed with that defense, the companies will presumably be compelled to prove, in court, who carried out those attacks.  British insurers are arguing that they have no obligation to honor their coverage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which were blown […]

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Russia’s Recklessness with Zaporizhzhia – Europe's Largest Nuclear Power Plant

Can the Kremlin respond to calls to limit Central Asian migration, when Russia faces a demographic crisis?