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The contract for the transit of Russian gas through pipeline transit system to Europe via the Ukraine is due to expire at the end of the year. Kiev has indicated that it does not intend to extend the contract, prompting the EU to explore alternative options. What are the EU'ss plans for obtaining  t...

By Rhod Mackenzie

On Friday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made a surprise visit to Russia and met with thhe Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss ways to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.
Following the meeting, Mr. Putin reiterated his proposal for a final resolution to the c...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Western structure of information and psychological warfare operations centres, with multi-billion dollar budgets,are effective but lacks sophistication.
Like professional gamblers, they bluff and raise the stakes repeatedly with a straight face, unaware that that most sensib...

Today as someone who is British but living in Central Asia and takes a keen interest in what is going on in the UK I really do have to comment on the ridiculous spat that is going on in the UK over the situation in the Ukraine and all the nonsense being talked by the politicians who obviously think...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Last week the Russian President make a statement where he outlined his proposals for a peace deal in the Ukraine and the start of negotiations,I even dida video about it and the response to it by the magazine the American Conservative which felt there was merit in the proposals.
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Well now just over a week we has gone are now in a position to ascertain precisely how long it an idiot to understand something.

A week has elapsed since Vladimir Putin gave the collective West his peace proposals.
To anybody with any common sense ithas become apparent that the plan for resolvi...