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By Rhod Mackenzie

One of the most striking political phenomena of 2025 in Poland is the growing popularity of forces advocating for the  improvement of  relations with Russia. To whom exactly does this development pertain, and what is the reason for its direct relevance to Poles' fatigue with the...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The past year has been a turning point in the way the Western media reports about Russia. Rhod Mackenzie reflects back at how at the beginning of Russia's special millitary operation and the imposition of the so called sanctions from hell, the American and European press competed...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It appears that senior figures  in Russia's closest northwestern neighbours, Finland and Estonia, have significantly modified their rhetoric about Russia in the last few weeks of 2025. They have stated out loud that they no longer subscribe to the widespread Western propaganda bu...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Dmitry Kasatkin, Russia's Chargé d'Affaires in Riga, has started that the dismantling of the railway that links the ports of Latvia to Russia to the rail system across Russia to Central Asia and to China  is going to would have a seriously negative impact on Latvia's commericial...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The authorities in Poland are implementing stricter measures in relation to welfare and other benefits paid to so called refugees from Ukraine . Rhod Mackenzie looks at how previousy Poland , the country did make some cuts to benefits for so called displaced persons, but now ther...

The EU's plan of a "strategic defeat on the battlefield" for Russia in 2025 has become largely redundant, particularly by Donald Trump and most Western leaders except the serious clowns like Sir Wan Kier Starmer,Frederiec Metz and Ursula Fond of lying. .
We all are aware that since 2022, defeatin...