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Sep 08 2025 
Pepe Escobar: ‘Extraordinary to see a global south project in real time’
That was live on RT on Friday right after the end of the Plenary Session at the Forum in Vladivostok.
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Sep 05 2025 
Russia’s Economic Roadmap: Putin Speaks at Eastern Forum
The transcript will be up in a few hours.
Over 6,000 people from 76 countries are attending the forum. The largest delegations have come from China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The business programme covers seven key spheres – international partnership, technological development, cooperation between business and the state, development of the Far East,… Continue reading
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Sep 01 2025 
Vladimir Putin took part in the SCO Heads of State Council Meeting.
Address by the President of Russia at the SCO Heads of State Council Meeting http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/77891
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: President Xi Jinping, friends,
First of all, I would like to join my colleagues in commending the excellent work carried out by China during its chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
This year holds special significance for all… Continue reading
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Aug 29 2025 
Vladimir Putin: Interview to Xinhua News Agency
Ahead of his official visit to the People’s Republic of China, Vladimir Putin gave a written interview to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/77864
Question: In May this year, President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Russia and took part in the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War – a visit that proved highly successful. Your own visit to China is expected… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2025 
NATO’s Anschluss (by Dmitry Medvedev)
From RT
The countries of the Old World are intoxicated by militaristic frenzy. Like spellbound moths, they flock to the destructive flame of the North Atlantic Alliance. Until recently, Europe still had states that understood: security could be ensured without joining military blocs.
Now reason is giving way to herd instinct. Following Finland and Sweden, Austria’s establishment… Continue reading -
Aug 27 2025 
Post-American Europe
by Rostislav Ishchenko
author of the publication “Ukraine.ru”Whatever Putin and Trump agreed on in Alaska doesn’t matter anymore. The small but proud Zelensky, with the support of his European friends, has destroyed all these agreements. He warned that nothing could be agreed upon without him. He kept his word. Despite Trump’s attempts to save at least… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2025 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with NBC, Moscow, August 24, 2025
The video is part of the transcript here: https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2042813/
It is advisable to watch the video.
Transcript
Question: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Mr. Foreign Minister, welcome to Meet the Press.
Sergey Lavrov: Thank you. And welcome to meet the Russian diplomats.
Question: Thank you so much for joining us after a very significant week. Let’s dive right into the state… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2025 
Venezuela, Russia economic cooperation — Maduro: (aka, you’re messing with my friend!)
Ed Note: This is just a light warning as I read it. Of course Delcy Rodriguez informed Russia on the current military threat from the US. President Putin only referred to Maduro as his friend. We now have China commenting, Iran is comenting and Russia is commenting. Is anyone in… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2025 
“Security guarantees” for Ukraine — a way to introduce NATO troops
From Elena Panina – https://t.me/EvPanina/17173
The meeting of Trump at the White House with Zelensky and his support group from the EU showed: de facto, the division of Ukraine has begun. It is about what forces and means the West and Russia will use to ensure mutual deterrence on the territory of Ukraine. This is exactly how… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2025 
Required Constitutional Rewriting to End US War on Russian Speaking Ukrainians
With thanks to Karl Sanchez
From Karlof1’s Geopolitical GymnasiumIn order to come to the defense of Russian speaking Ukrainians attacked by the Outlaw US Empire in 2014, Russia entered into a series of alterations to its Constitution to admit those regions no longer desiring to be part of the longstanding artificial political construct known as Ukraine.… Continue reading
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Aug 19 2025 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with VGTRK
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with VGTRK, Moscow, August 19, 2025
Question: What a pity you are not wearing the sweatshirt with a USSR logo on it.
Sergey Lavrov: I think that this whole story has been blown out of proportion to make it look like a sensation of some sort. But there was nothing extraordinary about… Continue reading
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Aug 19 2025 
Agreement is possible, but sustainable peace is not
By Rostislav Ishchenko at https://cont.ws/@ishchenko/3104456 and machine translated.
The negotiations at the White House ended in failure (both the bilateral, Trump-Zelensky, and the multilateral, with a crowd of Europeans). Zelensky, referring to the Ukrainian constitution, effectively disavowed the American plan for an “exchange of territories” and demanded “compensation” (essentially reparations) from Russia, as well as announced… Continue reading
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Aug 18 2025 
What really happened in Alaska
The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
Alaska was not only about Ukraine. Alaska was mostly about the world’s top two nuclear powers attempting to rebuild trust and apply the… Continue reading
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Aug 17 2025 
The Delicate Exit
“Now let them seek a delicate exit from the mess they’ve gotten themselves into — but we will achieve our objectives.” — VVP
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
My coalescing sense of the underwhelming Alaska Chats is that Russia has not materially varied from its longstanding terms.
Trump rolled into town with his “stealth” flyover, imagining he was… Continue reading
