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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

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...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The US's attempt to  drive a wedge between the BRICS countries has failed It is noteworthy that India, Brazil, China and Russia have all increased the pace of their diplomatic discussions in the last week. This occurred subsequent to Washington's robust pressure. Despite the meet...