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In a statement on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Accords on Aug. 1, 1975, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated the Russian call for a new security architecture for Europe and Russia in the spirit of 1975. However, he also had some pointed remarks on the Organisation for Security and Coooperation in Europe (OSCE), which grew […]

Dmitry Trenin is the Director of the Moscow-based Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) University, and a widely acknowledged expert on Russia’s foreign policy. He was a featured speaker at the international Schiller Institute conference in Berlin on July 12, 2025. At the Berlin event, Dmitry Trenin focused his remarks, delivered live […]

The main argument put forth by the architects of the European Union to create a supranational entity was the idea that only as a unified entity could Europe match major powers, such as the United States, Russia, or China. This argument was parroted by pro-EU politicians to justify the increasing transfer of sovereignty from nation states to the Brussels bureaucracy. […]

Since the summer of 2016, the pervasive political chatter about Donald Trump’s campaign centered around the theme of “Russia, Russia, Russia”, and the charge that his election victory was due to covert “collusion” between Trump and Russian intelligence operatives. The public was told there was “unanimous” agreement in the Intelligence Community (IC) that the Russian intervention included hacking of the […]

Some of the tariffs Donald Trump has imposed on nations are ostensibly based on trade considerations, but others are of a directly political nature, aimed at “punishing” the presumed offenders. On July 31, for example, the U.S. President announced tariffs of 25% on goods imported from India, in addition to “additional penalties”, for purchasing Russian oil and weapons. Asked for […]

The head of Russia’s space agency, Dmitry Bakanov, arrived in the United States on July 28, with a delegation from Roscosmos, for the first face-to-face meeting with the head of the U.S. space agency in eight years. The delegation visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center as well as the Mission Control Center for the American segment of the International Space Station […]

On July 17, Stellaria, a French startup born out of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Schneider Electric, raised €23 million to build a very promising new kind of small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). With a capacity of 540 MW (thermal) and 250 MW (electric), this SMR, called “the Stellarium,” will be a fourth-generation “fast neutron molten salt design”. […]

The two-day High-Level Conference on Implementation of a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel, that took place at the United Nations on July 28-29, could have been, and should have been, the occasion for world governments to intervene forcefully to stop the tragedy unfolding in front of their eyes. That did not happen and no one actually expected it to. […]

When a high Vatican prelate compares the massacre perpetrated in Gaza by the Israeli government to the Holocaust, such allegations cannot be longer ignored. And when a prominent Israeli figure does the same, it is the moral duty of all to join that call. They, of course, are not the first to do so, but they represent a palpable waking-up, […]

One narrative circulating among pro-Trump populists is that the GENIUS Act is Trump’s Machiavellian strategy to destroy the power of the financial oligarchy through the creation of a currency system alternative to the system of “private” central banks. Whereas the latter is a problem in terms of private control of government finances, the suggested solution is worse than the problem […]