Russia Will Help Lead The Global Economic Recovery After COVID-19 By Andrew Korybko President Putin’s keynote speech at this year’s SPIEF was remarkable because the in-person event represented the first such large-scale international economic one since the onset of the COVID-19… Read More ›
There Are No Democracies Or Autocracies, Only Governments By Andrew Korybko The division of the world into “democracies” and “autocracies” is an inaccurate reflection of reality. There are just governments, and each has elements of these two categories within them, albeit… Read More ›
Russia’s International Tourism Reforms Show That It Has Nothing To Hide By Andrew Korybko The law that President Putin recently signed allowing tourists to remain in Russia for six months so long as they’ve booked their hotel stay in advance for… Read More ›
Fake News Alert: Russia And Turkey Are Not Sending Peacekeepers To Palestine By Andrew Korybko Turkish President Erdogan’s disclosure that he proposed dispatching a peacekeeping force to Palestine during this week’s talks with his Russian counterpart has been misconstrued by many… Read More ›
Facebook’s Censorship Of RT’s Redfish Is Literally Digital Fascism By Andrew Korybko The word “fascism” has been carelessly thrown around in recent years, but Facebook’s censorship of RT’s Redfish was literally an example of digital fascism since the company’s page was… Read More ›
America Must Stop Punishing Average Russians If It’s To Regain Its Soft Power By Andrew Korybko The US Embassy in Russia’s announcement that it’ll stop issuing non-immigrant visas to the host country’s citizens in response to Moscow prohibiting its employment of… Read More ›
The EU Parliament’s Anti-Russian Resolution Is Dangerous By Andrew Korybko Russia is a major world power, and if the EU can attempt to bully it in such a dangerous way, then there’s nothing stopping the bloc from doing the same to… Read More ›
Iran’s Deep State Power Struggle Just Exploded Into The Open By Andrew Korybko The struggle between the reformist/”moderate” and principalist/”conservative” factions of Iran’s permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) just exploded into the open after recordings of an oral… Read More ›
The Russian-Taliban Bounty Conspiracy Theory: Postmortem By Andrew Korybko The recent revelation that the US Intelligence Community only ever had ‘low to moderate confidence’ in last summer’s sensational claims that Russia was paying bounties to the Taliban for every American soldier… Read More ›
Biden’s Afghan Withdrawal Isn’t A Blow To China By Andrew Korybko It was hyperbole for Ghosh to claim that ‘Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Is A Blow To China’. It might only be so in the worst-case scenario, which is far from certain…. Read More ›
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