It is the morning of May 12, 1892, and the Lithuanian-born landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan has just left his home and studio on Moscow’s leafy Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane to spend the summer… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…
In my most recent article for American Spectator I wrote of the developing Russian threat to the Baltic states, signified by the Putin regime’s placement of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a wa… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support…
“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.” So declared Joseph Stalin, the murderous tyrant whose own death arrived on March 5, 1953, five months after the birth of Vladimir Putin. Stalin’s death… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…
Russia recently placed Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a “wanted” list, accusing her of “crimes” that include the destruction of Soviet-era monuments in memory of Soviet soldiers in Estonia — a… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism…
In a breaking story that will have serious international implications, we’re just learning from the Russians that dissident and opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in Vladimir Putin’s gulag. Spe… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get…
WASHINGTON — During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he has no interest in expanding the war in Ukraine to Poland and Latvia. [perfectpullquote align=”ri… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get…
Tucker Carlson’s recent, two-hour interview of Vladimir Putin generated massive attention around the world. Carlson deserves credit for the exclusive, although he left the former KGB apparatchik off t… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get unlimited…
Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to revive the Soviet empire go beyond his war in Ukraine, involving lower-intensity geostrategic moves in various parts of the world producing disturbing results in Africa, … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get…
Fifteen days into Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministers of the two warring countries met in the Turkish resort town of Antalya, where they would discuss potential resolutions to … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism…
According to British academic Matthew Hedges, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has deepened its friendship with the Russian Federation since Russia invaded Ukraine. A fact that taken together with the U… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get…