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Trump wants to preserve the “mighty US dollar” whereas Putin’s secret agenda is to destroy the “mighty US dollar” by replacing it with...

They say that death, divorce and moving house are the three most stressful experiences in one’s life.  I can confirm they are, especially...

This mural was painted by a Lithuanian street artist across the back of a BBQ restaurant in the Baltic capital of Vilnius in 2017 but is...

In yesterday’s phone call with Comrade Trump, Comrade Putin agreed to a partial ceasefire “orchestrated” by Trump.  Putin agreed to the...

О Дональде Трампе и Владимире Путине. Posted in FACEBOOK by Alnur Mussayev on 18 July 2018 (translated from Russian) After reading the...

After Trump cut-off all military aide to Ukraine and the sharing of crucial intelligence last week, Zelensky finally agreed to a 30-day...

It may have been emotionally satisfying to be rude to Trump but it achieved nothing useful.  That’s why, knowing a decision on Australian...

At this very moment, Australia’s tariff exemption for steel and aluminium exports to USA hangs in the balance and this is precisely the...

I never imagined that I would end up in a Russian prison, but I did.  I was prohibited from contacting the Australian Embassy and...

On August 23, 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson, an infamous bank robber walked into a Stockholm bank with a submachine gun, a knife, a transistor...

In 2000, just after the eradication of the Soviet Union and at the beginning of China’s economic reform, the U.S. was the top trading...

Russian artists have added Donald Trump to their collections of matryoshka dolls, but rarely do they put the two leaders - Russian...

Cold peace with Russian means terminating NATO expansion along Russian borders, accepting a Russian “sphere of influence” in the former...

Palekh, Russian miniature lacquer art, is still alive today. Palekh miniature artists are trained at the Palekh Art College, formerly the...

If you had walked into a Russian gift shop “Skazka” on the touristic Arbat Street in downtown Moscow on February 13, 2025, you would have...

I bought these Russian matryoshki (nestling dolls) at the Central Markets in Moscow after Putin’s rise to power in late 1990s.  The dolls...

My mother, Nataly, is a published journalist, poet and author and has also just released her memoir about her travels in Russia in 1990 &...