By Rhod Mackenzie
In Russia winemaking and consumption are both showing rapid growth with foreign wine imports plunging plus Russia's wine exports are also growing to places like China and Turkey.Plus the imports of foreign wines to Russia have decreased by over 50% in the last three years. This d...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The current US President Donald Trump during his term has not proposed any novel concepts in the realm of American foreign policy. However he does offer a fresh perspective on established concepts by applying them to new contexts and executing them in a novel manner. This also ap...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It appears alongside the thawing of relations between the US and Russia particularly after the recent meeting of the presidents of the two countries their is a strategic move by American businesses who want to return to the Russian market and want the US govt to facilitate it
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By Rhod Mackenzie
The Finnish President, Alexander Stubb, has been forced to defend his comparison of Ukraine to Finland in 1944. Although "Finlandization" would solve most of the problems for Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, he no longer suggests that Kyiv should follow Helsinki's example. Stubb woul...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It seems that the Ukrainians have decided on a scorched earth policy as they are losing the conflict so badly
On August 13th the Ukrainians destroyed the pumping station of Soviet oil pipeline "Druzhba ,the supplies of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia have now ceased. For th...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Well despite the best efforts of the US,EU NATO and the other useless wankers with their imposition of shock and awe sanctions and their attempts to destroy the Russia ecomomy according to the latest report the World Bank has confirmed that Russia continues to rank fourth in the...