The last time Russia was in a Triple Entente did not end well.
Britain and France – ostensibly Russia’s Triple Entente partners – were more than willing to fight the First World War to the last drop of Russian blood.
Russian sacrifices and privations were so severe they pushed a tottering Tsarist Russia over the brink of revolution.
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After the Russian Council published ideas about a German-Chinese axis which should be transformed in a Eurasian triangle with Russia, Andrej Kortunow, director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) gave an interview outlining the potentials for an cooperation and coordination between the EU and Russia. The interview is available here.
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As I mentioned in the previous article the cancellation of the referendum will signal the violation of democracy in the United Kingdom. What is more, it will ultimately lead to throwing away all the time that London and Brussels used to negotiate all the conditions of Brexit. So, it makes sense for both parties to proceed, if it is possible to proceed…

Moving about one year ago to London from Moscow has proven to be an interesting experience for me. Understandably, that every state is interested in the affairs that impact or can potentially impact the state. So, in autumn 2018 everyone was on discussing Brexit. In introduction courses in the University, professors have mentioned not once and not…

Georgia is a country of 69,700 km2 for 3,723,500 inhabitants located in the South Caucasus on the shore of the Black Sea. The Georgian land is undeniably prosperous due to the favorable location to produce wine, black tea, and other various agricultural products. The temperatures going from a cold minus in Tbilisi to a canicular temperature in Batumi…

Marshal Bulganin and Premier Khrushchev visited Bangalore, India in the 1950s and planted two tall trees there with great pomp and ceremony, to signify the growing solidarity between India and the USSR.
It is said the Bulganin tree started growing at a slant right away and toppled over a few years later (to be replanted discreetly in a less prominent…

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, EVOLVING NUCLEAR POSTURES, AND DETERIORATING NORMS: IS THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR ORDER ERODING?
January 8-15, 2020, Andalo (Trento), Italy
The global nuclear order is undergoing major transformations. Policy makers around the world are facing complex decisions and – more importantly - costly trade-offs if strategic stability is to…

Russia’s greatness is in the resilience, endurance and inner strength of her people. They have recovered from many devastating tragedies that have befallen the country, from the Mongol scourge to civil war, and from the fascist invasion of the mid-20th century to the tragic decade that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Because of that…

Is the new Containment and its Cold War on our doorstep? Who does it need now and why? To answer that question is to grasp how the previous one ceased.
The end of the Cold War came abruptly, overnight. Many in the West dreamt about it, but nobody really saw it coming. The Warsaw Pact, Red Army in DDR, Berlin Wall, DDR itself, Soviet Union – one…

American Herald Tribune, 10 September 2019
When I think of Russia, I think of three core facts about Russia: eleven time zones’ worth of real estate loaded with valuable minerals and dominant over the emerging Arctic economic zone; 80% Asian like it or not; and resilient. I feel particularly guilty, as an American, about the “Gold War” against…

NASA has lauded Chandrayaan-2, saying India's moon mission has "inspired" the US space agency which is keen to jointly explore the solar system with ISRO, a day after the lunar expedition suffered a snag while attempting a historic landing on the uncharted South Pole of the Moon.
The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) plan to soft-land the…

In preparation for a new lecture and article I have taken the trouble to sort all my reviews and noted books (guest reviews and worth a looks) into a table that is provided below in three forms: sorted by star, by topic, and by author.
This allowed me to identify 25 life-changing transformative books out of the totality of roughly 2,000+ books. Below…