What are Fateh-110 missiles? Russia eyes Iran's answer to ATACMS

newsweek.com Russia could be set to purchase Iranian-made missiles later this month as Tehran and Moscow consolidate their increasingly close relationship in the midst of the war in…

Trump Sues Christopher Steele Over Hoax Dossier

zerohedge.com Trump Sues Christopher Steele Over Hoax Dossier Former President Trump is suing Christopher Steele, the former MI-6 spook who assembled the infamous "Steele Dossier," a…

Ukraine Endgame Accelerates as Congress Denies Any Funding in Stopgap Bill and Fico Wins in Slovakia Vote

nakedcapitalism.com Your humble blogger had intended to write a longer post about the gradually emerging contours of the Ukraine endgame tomorrow. But the dramatic outcome of Republican…

Videos: Explosion as Russian helicopter base, aircraft factory attacked

newsweek.com Videos have begun to circulate on social media Sunday showing a drone strike on a helicopter base in the Russian city of Sochi, around the same time as a similar strike in…

Mourners hail dead Russian mercenary Prigozhin as hero of the people

reuters.com [1/5] A woman mourns next to a makeshift memorial for Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, as people mark 40 days since his death to respect an Orthodox…

Russia threatens direct attacks on US allies over soldiers, Taurus missiles

newsweek.com British troops training forces in Ukraine and German factories making Taurus missiles—should Berlin provide Kyiv with the long-range weapon—would be a legitimate targets for…

Putin gets good news from European election

newsweek.com Slovakia's pro-Moscow former prime minister has won the race to power in Bratislava, paving the way for a dip in the country's support for Ukraine in its fight against…

Russia's Military Budget Set To Rise By 70%

zerohedge.com Russia's Military Budget Set To Rise By 70% Via Remix News, Russian military spending is set to rise by almost 70 percent — to €106 billion — by 2024, according to a Russian…

Energy & precious metals

investing.com Investing.com -- It's OPEC+ week ahead and we can expect the drone on how much higher crude prices can go to continue all week. After a near 30% gain in the third quarter,…

Russia rocked by simultaneous drone attacks, videos show

newsweek.com Russia was struck by drone strikes in two different regions early on Sunday, Moscow's Defense Ministry has said, as footage appears to show damage wrought by the attacks.…

Finland hopes China will help end Russia's invasion of Ukraine

asia.nikkei.com HELSINKI -- NATO's newest member, Finland, hopes that China will condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and help to end the war, says Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, as…

Pro-Russia ex-premier leads leftist party to win in Slovakia election

nbcnews.com A populist former prime minister and his leftist party won parliamentary elections in Slovakia, staging a political comeback after campaigning on a pro-Russian and…

Five new cargo vessels heading for Ukrainian Black Sea ports -MarineTraffic

investing.com Five new ships are on their way to Ukrainian sea ports using a new corridor opened to resume predominantly agricultural exports, an alternative arrangement to the Black Sea…

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death may consolidate Putin’s power

economist.com Editor’s note: On August 27th Russian investigators confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin died when his aeroplane crashed. B , the director of the , recently mused on what fate…

The Wagner mutiny has left Putin dangerously exposed

economist.com A was anointed as Russia’s president at the end of 1999, he compared the first post-Soviet decade to smutnoye vremya, the time of troubles—the uprisings, famine and…

Can Ukraine capitalise on chaos in Russia?

economist.com U with glee as Russia flirted with civil war on June 24th. They had hoped that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow would tie up Russian troops and destabilise Vladimir…

Alexander Lukashenko is the clearest beneficiary of Wagner’s mutiny

economist.com I over two decades since Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s scheming dictator, has enjoyed such a good press in Russia. Throughout the weekend, Kremlin propagandists lauded his…

Prigozhin’s strange aborted coup is a sign of Russia’s malaise

economist.com O Russia entered 24 hours of mayhem. Consider, for a moment, just how surreal it all was. A violent criminal and former hot-dog seller, nicknamed the “chef”, leads an armed…

How the mutiny in Russia will shape the battlefield in Ukraine

economist.com O ago Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group had just conquered the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut after a nearly year-long battle, crawling forward by a few dozen metres a day. On…

The Wagner Group halts its march on Moscow

economist.com T of armed insurrection against Vladimir Putin abated on June 24th as suddenly and dramatically as it had erupted. In the morning Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner…

The case for a third-party campaign in 2024 is actuarial, not ideological

economist.com N American politics is more quixotic than a third-party presidential campaign. Thus, to political insiders, nothing is also more pathetic or else more cynical: in the best…

Three cargo vessels left Ukrainian ports, four new ones to arrive -MarineTraffic

reuters.com [1/4] Liberia-flagged bulk carriers Eneida and Ying Hao 01 are seen in the sea as they leave the sea ports of Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine,…

Georgia’s reluctance to move against Russian agent tests its allegiance to west

ft.com Former chief prosecutor was put on a US sanctions list for doing Moscow’s bidding in the Caucasus nation

The Russians Knew Exactly Where To Strike Kharkiv’s Air-Defenses. The Locations Were In Soviet Archives

forbes.com The bombardment that began Russia’s wider war on Ukraine in the early morning hours of Feb. 24, 2022 was ineffective. Ukrainian brigades had repositioned from their…

Officials urge Moldova to seize opportunity for EU membership

reuters.com Moldovan President Maia Sandu attends a news conference during a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Chisinau, Moldova, May 31, 2023.…

White House welcomes shutdown resolution

politico.com The bill McCarthy brought to the House floor didn’t just fund the government, it also included $16 billion in disaster relief and, as one White House official noted, avoided…

Putin Says Russian Prisoners Killed in Ukraine War 'Atoned for Their Guilt'

youtube.com Russian President Vladimir Putin met with military officials in Moscow on Friday to honor the memory of soldiers who died during a special military operation. He said that…

Putin ally issues warning on Russia-China ties: "Very dangerous"

newsweek.com Vladimir Solovyov, a prominent Russian propagandist and ally to Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggested recently that Moscow relying on its alliance with China could be…

Putin Signs Decree To Draft 130K Young Men In Fall Conscription

zerohedge.com Putin Signs Decree To Draft 130K Young Men In Fall Conscription In a fall call-up, Russia is drafting 130,000 more young men for compulsory service, based on a decree signed…

Putin marks anniversary of illegal annexation of Ukrainian regions in address

pbs.org Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday insisted that the residents of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed a year ago “made their choice — to be with…

Countries Most Worried About World War III

247wallst.com With the ongoing war in Ukraine and continuing tensions between China, Taiwan and the United States, global tensions may be at their highest point in several decades.…

Putin's pick to lead the Wagner Group is likely considered a 'traitor' by his own men, UK says

businessinsider.com Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov, left, and new Wagner boss Andrei Troshev, right, meet Russian President Vladimir Putin (not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow.…

Video: Russian soldiers warn Ukraine "better armed" after 1,000 troops lost

newsweek.com Russian soldiers warned that Ukrainian troops were "better armed" while fighting for control of a key village retaken by Kyiv this month in a new video that emerged on…

Ukraine shoots down 30 drones over south, centre, officials say

reuters.com A Russian drone is seen during a Russian drone strike, which local authorities consider to be Iranian made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Shahed-136, amid Russia's attack…

Wagner fighters think Putin appointee is a "traitor"

newsweek.com Wagner Group fighters believe that one of its former commanders now tasked with providing troops for Ukraine is a "traitor", according to British defense officials. Russian…

Special Report: How Cubans were recruited to fight for Russia

reuters.com [1/15] Marilin Vinent shows a photo of her son Dannys Castillo dressed in military uniform in an August 22 message from her son which reads in Spanish "I'm already…

2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons

vox.com Niv Bavarsky for Vox The world banned chemical weapons in 1997. Here’s why it took so long for the US to eliminate its arsenal. The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service…

NATO builds up forces in Kosovo as tensions with Serbia rise

politico.eu NATO said on Friday it is increasing its peacekeeping presence in northern Kosovo as a result of escalating tensions with neighboring Serbia, as the U.S. called on Serbia to…

Putin marks anniversary of illegal annexation of Ukrainian regions

nbcnews.com Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday insisted that the residents of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed a year ago “made their choice — to be with…

Russia's gas production collapses to late-stage USSR levels

newsweek.com Russian gas production so far this year has slumped to levels not seen since the 1970s. The country's state energy giant Gazprom said in its latest report that gas…

Russia picked the Black Sea naval fight it's now losing to Ukraine, which doesn't even have a fleet of its own

businessinsider.com In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, July 21, 2023, warships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet sail while taking part in naval drills in…

Russian official calls for Ukrainians' "genocide", creating patriot "camps"

newsweek.com A Russian ultra-nationalist and former political figure has said that Moscow must destroy Ukrainians and put them in re-education camps. Pavel Gubarev made the comments…

In taking Karabakh, Azerbaijan's president avenged his father

investing.com Early on September 19, Azerbaijan's president set in motion a lightning-fast military plan months in the making that would redraw the geopolitical map and avenge an…

Russia hosts Taliban for talks on regional threats and says it will keep funding Afghanistan

nbcnews.com Moscow will keep helping Afghanistan on its own and through the U.N. food agency, Russian officials said Friday as they hosted Taliban representatives for talks on regional…

Moscow Exploits The Geostrategic Minefields It Sowed All Around Its Old Empire From Central Asia To Serbia

forbes.com With the Karabakh conflict hitting the headlines followed by resurging hostilities around Serbia, it's time to look at how Moscow created fault-lines over decades, even…

Inflation drops sharply in Europe. It offers a glimmer of hope, but higher oil prices loom

abcnews.go.com FRANKFURT, Germany -- Inflation that has been plaguing Europeans declined sharply in September, strengthening hopes that consumers will eventually get relief from costlier…

Idaho murder victims' lives detailed in chilling new book

newsweek.com Just days after J. Reuben Appelman heard that four students had been stabbed to death in their home, he headed to Moscow, Idaho. Appelman, an author and private…

Russia to begin drafting soldiers from occupied regions of Ukraine

businessinsider.com Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a video conference meeting on the draft of the 2024 federal budget and the planning period of 2025 and 2026 at the Kremlin in Moscow…

Russian Mystery Plane That Landed In Pyongyang Making Washington Nervous

zerohedge.com Russian Mystery Plane That Landed In Pyongyang Making Washington Nervous A Russian 'mystery plane' spotted in North Korea is making Washington nervous, after Kim Jong Un…

Putin Orders Ex-Wagner Commander to Lead Combat Units in Ukraine

youtube.com Russian President Vladimir Putin put one of the former top commanders of the Wagner mercenary group, whose chief died in a plane crash after leading an aborted mutiny…

In ‘Big Trip,’ an Exiled Russian Director Asks: What Makes Us Human?

nytimes.com The Russian theatermaker Dmitry Krymov’s “Big Trip,” two shows in repertory through mid-October at La MaMa, in Manhattan, is in love with the very essence of theater: how we…

Ukraine latest: Putin signs decree calling up 130,000 in fall draft

asia.nikkei.com The war in Ukraine, which broke out in February 2022 with Russia's invasion of its neighbor, shows no sign of ending as both sides intensify attacks to gain control of…

Oil dips at September close but wins big on month and quarter

investing.com Investing.com - Crude prices fell on the last trading day of September on growing uneasiness over how the world might cope in the coming months with exploding energy costs,…

PHOTOS: Ukrainian civilians are turning busted and salvaged vehicles into mobile rocket launchers with scavenged military hardware

businessinsider.com Ukrainian civilian volunteers work to modify damaged and salvaged vehicles into small mobile MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) units made from recovered Russian and…

Russia hosts the Taliban for talks on regional threats and says it will keep funding Afghanistan

abcnews.go.com ISLAMABAD -- Moscow will keep helping Afghanistan on its own and through the U.N. food agency, Russian officials said Friday as they hosted Taliban representatives for talks…

Putin Crowns New Wagner Chief, Tasked With Sending Fighters Back To Ukraine

zerohedge.com Putin Crowns New Wagner Chief, Tasked With Sending Fighters Back To Ukraine The future fate and leadership of PMC Wagner has become clearer on Friday, following the Aug. 23…

Putin meets with Wagner commander who was once arrested while 'dangerously intoxicated,' says he's now leading combat missions in Ukraine

aol.com None Russian President Vladimir Putin met Friday with the new commander of Wagner, Andrei Troshev. • None At the meeting, Putin referred to Troshev leading "various combat…

Putin makes eyebrow-raising military appointment

newsweek.com Russian President Vladimir Putin has tapped a former commander of the Wagner Group for a prominent military position three months after the mercenary organization launched a…