[ What follows is the entire text of Vladimir Putin’s speech at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi. ] Participants in the plenary session, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to welcome you all in Sochi at the anniversary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The moderator has already mentioned that this is…
Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of SCORPION KING: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump, and his most current book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union. He served in the Soviet Union as…
[ This is an absolutely brilliant analysis by Patrick Lawrence of the short-lived and melodramatic farce, dubbed by the always lying Western press as an attempted “coup d’etat“, that occurred in Russia last week, reprinted courtesy of ScheerPost. ] After a few hours of high drama in southwestern Russia last…