China is crucial to mitigating potential Arms agreement between Russia and North Korea, according to an expert.

China holds the key to preventing a potential arms agreement between Moscow and Pyongyang, according to an expert on North Korean military and politics, as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepare to meet in Russia's Far East.

Kim arrived aboard h...

The highs and lows of relations between Russia and North Korea

The United States, which first disclosed that the visit was imminent, stated that Kim and Putin were likely to discuss North Korea supplying Russia with weapons for Ukraine's brutal civil conflict. This would be a role reversal from the 1950-1953 Korean War, when the Soviet Union supplied amm...

Putin predicts the end of the "neocolonial" international order; Russian mercenaries withdraw from Bakhmut.

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to wreak devastation on its neighbour, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia wants to collaborate with other countries to build a fair international order, criticising a "neocolonial system." Putin told a security conferen...

Can the United States and China help restore peace to Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin considers Xi Jinping, his self-proclaimed friend, to be the only person in the world who can actually affect him. Even though Putin is wanted on an arrest order issued by the International Criminal Court, China's leader recently visited Russia.

China's political d...

According to Ukrainian Nobel Peace winner, Ukraine cannot achieve peace by "laying down guns."

On Saturday, a trio of leaders from the three countries at the heart of the Ukraine conflict collected the Nobel Peace Prize, urging the battle against Russian President Vladimir Putin's "insane and illegal" invasion to continue uninterrupted.

The Nobel committee celebrate...

Inside the nightmare of Russia's parallel world in occupied Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin exploited the bogus pretexts of "denazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine to legitimize his invasion. Russian official propaganda is based on the concept of a "Nazi-controlled" Ukraine, where Russians come to "liberate&q...

South Korea's leader has disregarded Putin's warning.

In response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning that relations between Seoul and Moscow would be shattered if South Korea delivered lethal armaments to Ukraine, President Yoon Suk-yeol stressed on Friday that South Korea has never done so.

Yoon told reporters as he entered...

Taking control of the Sakhalin 1 oil and gas project is one of Putin's latest directives

A new operator for the Exxon Mobil Corp.-led Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East was established by a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

Putin's action, which affects Exxon's largest investment in Russia, is similar to the method he ...

The call-up of Putin increases Russians' ire, protests, and violence

There are lengthy car lineups on the winding roads leading to the Russian border crossings with Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia, as well as similar lines at airports.

furious protests, not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but even in the distant far-north province of Yakutia and in ...

PM Narendra Modi expresses worry to Vladimir Putin that the current conflict in Ukraine is not appropriate for the times

On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his concerns over the escalating violence in Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged Moscow to find a solution.

"I've already discussed it with you on the phone conversation, but it is not a time of conflict. We...

EUROPE IS STRONGER THAN EVER, BUT FOR HOW LONG

When Russian President Vladimir Putin gathered his country's soldiers on Ukraine's border earlier this year, observers on both sides predicted a different outcome. Kiev was not thought to be capable of withstanding the full force of Moscow's war machine for long. The scenarios imagine...

Putin admits that Western sanctions have begun to harm Russia's oil and gas industry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Thursday that Western sanctions have already begun to impair Russia's energy sector and warned that additional worldwide disruption to the country's oil sector might have "very painful" implications for those attempting to stifle Russ...

Officials in the United States have warned Putin that he may use the Ukraine conflict to meddle in American politics

According to US intelligence experts, Vladimir Putin may exploit the Biden administration's backing for Ukraine as a pretext to launch a fresh campaign to meddle in American politics.

According to multiple people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity, i...

Will Europe's populists have a field day in the polls

For a brief time, it appeared that most of Europe's right-wing, nationalist, anti-immigration, and EU-critical politicians' prolonged love affair with Vladimir Putin's Kremlin would prove deadly. Russia's heinous invasion of Ukraine has undoubtedly embarrassed them. But, so far, i...

Thailand's tourism industry will be impacted by the increasing crisis in Eastern Europe

As the world watched Russia shell Ukraine over the last week, the international community has retaliated with a slew of penalties on Vladimir Putin.

Nations are expressing their opposition to the assault in a variety of ways, including finance, commerce, travel, international sporting e...

Officials from the United States and NATO are attempting to discern the state of discussions between Russia and Ukraine.

According to various individuals briefed on the issue, US and NATO officials think Russian President Vladimir Putin has not backed down from his original demands in discussions with Ukraine, and there is a significant dose of scepticism in Western capitals about how serious Moscow's participa...

The gulf crisis may not all work in Putin’s favour

Mr Balakrishnan described Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "maybe a larger milestone than the fall of the Berlin Wall."

Mr Balakrishnan may be correct, even though the Berlin Wall precipitated the demise of communism as an ideology rather than a power-driven political syste...

Inflation in the United States has reached a 40-year high

There's a simple reason for this: current demand exceeds supply. Politicians, customers, and social media trolls all weigh in on why things have come to this, from the Biden administration's ostensibly anti-energy policies to oil firms' craven avarice.

However, once the acut...

Ukraine's journey: from the "cradle of the Russian nation" to the Soviet Union to the current conflict

On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk, two separatist-held territories in eastern Ukraine, as autonomous entities and authorised a special military operation "to safeguard" the people in the Donbas region, which encompasses the two separatist-he...

Putin Weaponizing the Supply of Gas to Europe

Energy expert, Dan Yergin, says that the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will have to face the consequences if he weaponized gas supplies to Europe amid tensions with Ukraine.

He said that if Putin weaponized gas supplies to Europe, it would seriously damage his future market for n...