By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW, 11 May 2025 (IDN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Burkina Faso counterpart, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, have agreed to step up efforts to combat growing extremism and terrorism, which is widespread across the Sahel region, an elongated landlocked territory located between North Africa (Maghreb) and West Africa. The cooperation […]
Russia’s Victory Day A Profound Symbol of National Resilience
By Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK | 7 May 2025 (IDN) — Russia celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany and holds its annual Victory Day parade on Red Square on May 9. Praising Russia as a nation of winners, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said that “the victory was a profound […]
Russia-Ukraine Peacemaker: BRICS+ or United States
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | 30th April 2025 (IDN) – Global leaders have not yet answered Russia’s significant questions around a proposed Ukraine ceasefire. President Vladimir Putin is still searching for the candidates with the right geopolitical mindset and skills for decoding the reasons for the “special military operation” that the Kremlin, with Federation […]
Russia’s Expanding Geopolitical Influence in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW | 4 April 2025 (IDN) — Growing impatience over the fragile security situation in the Sahel region and collective anxiety to uplift and strengthen their Confederation of Sahel States (AES), three Foreign Ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger embarked on a trip to Moscow. Meetings held on 3 April […]
Ending The Second Cold War Between Russia and The West
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 4 March 2025 (IDN) — George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm”, the satire on how a dictatorship can slowly but steadily evolve in a democratic society, and “1984”, a novel about three dystopian dictatorships always at war with each other, was the first person to use the phrase […]
The Winds of Change: A Rapprochement Between Russia and the US
By Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK | 28 February 2025 (IDN) — Finally, a respite after a decade long acrimonious relations that ruined diplomatic relations between the two nuclear powers — the United States and Russia. It is a widely accepted norm that mutually respectful and beneficial relations between nations is a sine qua non in […]
Trump Needs To Do Most of the Listening in Summit with Putin
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 25 February 2025 (IDN) — The great flaw in ex-president Barack Obama’s record was his policy towards Russia. Going against everything he had said and written about before he became president, one action after another antagonised the Russians — his early proclamation that he wanted Georgia and Ukraine in […]
Message To the US and Russia: Don’t Think About Nuclear War
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 11 February 2025 (IDN) — War over Ukraine? It mustn’t be. Some of us believed that at the end of the Cold War in 1991 American and Soviet nuclear rockets would be left to rust and rot in their silos. Indeed, we actually saw Ukraine, where the Soviets made […]
Russia Delivers Military Hardware to Mali — After the Fall of Assad Regime
By Guy Martin* The premier online African defence and security news publication defenceWeb issued this article. It is being republished with their permission. RHODES, South Africa | 5 February 2025 (IDN) — Russia has delivered over 100 military vehicles to Mali, including tanks, trucks, and infantry fighting vehicles. It is suspected the shipment may have […]
If Trump Plays It Right, He Can Get the Russians Out of Ukraine
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 2 February 2025 (IDN) — The great flaw in ex-president Barack Obama’s record was his policy towards Russia. Going against everything he had said and written about before he became president, one action after another antagonised the Russians—his early proclamation that he wanted Georgia and Ukraine in Nato, his […]