20 June 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation St. Petersburg Economic Forum and EU Bitter Predicament (I) 20.06.2015 | 09:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) has kicked off on June 18 against the background of economic woes faced by Europe. While being focused on anti-Russia punitive measures, the EU is losing control over Continue reading

13 June 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Printing Press: Kiev’s Last Hope 13.06.2015 | 08:00 | Valentin KATASONOV Yury Lutsenko, an MP and the leader of Bloc of Petro Poroshenko party, reported that the Ukraine’s National Bank started the printing press. Allegedly it went ahead after Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk gave his approval. Few people paid attention Continue reading

6 June 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Afghanistan: Militants Posing Imminent Threat to Central Asia (I) 06.06.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV The civil war in Yemen, the following intervention by Saudi Arabia to aggravate the stand-off with Iran, the capture of Iraqi Ramadi and Syrian Palmira by Islamic State (IS) – all these events hit radar Continue reading

30 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Will Moscow and Riyadh Get Closer? 30.05.2015 | 10:50 | Nikolai BOBKIN …With King Salman becoming the head of state Saudi Arabia has entered a period of transformation. There is ground to believe the Kingdom will review its foreign policy priorities, including the relations with Russia. Until recently the bilateral Continue reading

23 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation America is on a Banking Delayed-action Mine 23.05.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV Since 2009, it has been compulsory for all major US banks to pass an exam called a stress test. The test checks the banks’ ability to withstand sudden changes in economic and financial conditions. Put simply, it Continue reading

16 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Saudi Option of Yemen War to Blow Iran P5+1 Deal 16.05.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM The Obama White House pulled out all the stops this week to indulge the «insecure» Persian Gulf Arab oil sheikhdoms. The assurances lavished by President Obama on his guests – with meetings in the Continue reading

9 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Great Victory. Height to Be Kept at Any Price! 09.05.2015 | 00:00 | Yuriy RUBTSOV …Karlshorst is a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. The ceremony was taking place on May 9, 1945, 0.43 Moscow time, in the former dining room of a ‘Pionier-Schule’ (military academy of the Continue reading

2 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Berlin Fell! 02.05.2015 | 00:01 | Yuriy RUBTSOV The seizure of Reichstag started by the early morning of the 30th, 1945. The 150th and 171st rifle divisions of the 3d Army led by Army General V. Kuznetsov were advancing to the building of German parliament – Reichstag. A fierce battle Continue reading

25 April 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Ground Phase of Operation to Establish Control over Yemen Starts on Saudi Soil 25.04.2015 | 11:18 | Nikolai BOBKIN …Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on April 21 ordered the Saudi Arabian National Guard, widely regarded as the kingdom’s best equipped military ground force, to take part in Riyadh’s campaign against Iran-allied Continue reading

18 April 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Political Successors of Banderite Killers Slap Poland in the Face 18.04.2015 | 00:03 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI The Polish social democratic political party Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) considers the Ukrainian parliament’s recent recognition of the UPA as fighters for independence to be an insult to Poland and its President, Bronislaw Komorowski, Continue reading

11 April 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Why Alexis Tsipras is not Popular in EU 11.04.2015 | 00:00 | Arkady DZIUBA No matter how hard the European political beau monde tried to prevent it, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did visit Moscow. Neither Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, nor Hungarian leader Victor Urban, who have also recently met Continue reading

4 April 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Yemeni Crisis: Broader Geographical Implications 04.04.2015 | 12:27 | Boris DOLGOV The intervention of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia in March 2015 escalated the drawn-out internal conflict in Yemen. It may threaten stability far beyond the borders of Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. Ansar Allah («Supporters of God»), Continue reading

28 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Ankara – Riyadh: A Geopolitical Fault Line (I) 28.03.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV …In some regional conflicts (primarily in Syria), Ankara and Riyadh are tactical allies, but since both countries aspire to regional leadership, the natural result is an intensification of their rivalry and discord. This process Continue reading

21 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Contest of Absurdity and Victory Day 21.03.2015 | 09:26 | Yuriy RUBTSOV All the proposals to mark the Victory Day in any other place but the capital of the Soviet Union/Russia – the leading victorious power in the main war of the 20th century – look like an absurdity contest… Continue reading

14 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Merkel Is Erasing May 9, 1945 from the National Memory 14.03.2015 | 12:06 | Dmitriy SEDOV …For the Russian people, the German chancellor’s refusal to attend the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow is a very serious sign that soon Germans might refuse to acknowledge the victory over Nazism. Germany’s political Continue reading

7 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Ukraine – Country Ruled By Most Corrupt Regime in the World 07.03.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ If somebody asked those who joined the Maidan protests a year ago what were the reasons for doing so, they would probably say that the rampant corruption was the last straw. The protests Continue reading

28 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Tony Blair and the Hidden Agenda of Serbian Policy 28.02.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV The appointment of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as advisor to the head of the Serbian government, Aleksandar Vu?i?, has rocked the media. The Russian television channel RT referred to the decision as an Continue reading

21 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Egypt – Confrontation with Radical Islamism 21.02.2015 | 00:00 | Boris DOLGOV …It can be assumed that terrorist attacks against Egypt by the Islamic State (IS) have been prompted by the Egyptian leadership’s policy on rapprochement with Russia, including military-technical cooperation, which was strengthened after President Putin’s recent visit to Continue reading

14 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Washington Wastes No Time to Sabotage Minsk 14.02.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM With their noses out of joint and egos bruised, the United States and its European lieutenants immediately got to work to undermine the Minsk ceasefire deal by twisting the terms of the accord and seeking to frame Continue reading

7 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Economics Wars and Economic Sanctions (II)07.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV Economic sanctions are a set of measures that put pressure on a government to achieve predominantly political objectives. However, although sanctions lead to negative consequences in the economy of the sanctioned country, the ultimate political objectives are by no Continue reading