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By Rhod Mackenzie

Finland has the highest unemployment rate in the EU which is a direct consequence of Helsinki's decision to join NATO,  impose EU sanctions and completely break its economic and business ties to Moscow. That said there still some are other factors to consider. 
In December, the...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It has been reported that Finland has detained another merchant vessel in the Baltic Sea shrtly after it left a Russian port.
What justifications did the Finnish authorities use this time for the seizure of the ship,cargo and crew? What is the importance of the ships cargo desti...

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

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...

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...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Finland has breaches EU Fiscal Rules. This poses a threat of the implementation of financial sanctions on the country. What are the questions that have been raised as to whether the Finns will be punished or pardoned for political reasons, and as to the source of the funding to...