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By Rhod Mackenzie
The year of 2025 proved to be a challenging one for the Russian economy. The imposition of even more sanctions by the West, a further decline in oil prices, the widening of the budget deficit, and the continued high cost of borrowing all contributed to the year's challenging ec...
By Rhod Mackenzie
During 2025, the collective Western underwent a significant internal restructuring. The United States, the dominant Western power, began to align more closely with Russia's perspectives compared to those of its European allies or actually vassals.
Washington adopted a much more...
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...
