Vladimir Danilov

The current developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and Libya have prompted nations in the region to reshape ties with each other and establish or expand coalitions in order to counteract external threats. Based on statements made by a number of politicians from this part of the world, Turkey and Iran are the countries most often labelled as troublemakers, whose actions...

"Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to a full-fledged diplomatic relationship," US President Donald Trump wrote with evident satisfaction on Twitter on December 10th, emphasizing in particular that the North African kingdom was the fourth Arab country over the past four months to announce that relations with Israel would be normalized...

The finishing curve in the US presidential race, where no official announcement concerning its winner has been made for more than a month, has heated up the atmosphere in the United States and abroad to a breaking point. Many American TV channels, even one day before the elections, stopped putting up even a semblance of objectivity, and broadcast...

As the American editorial The Hill recently noted, China’s success in research and exploration of a natural satellite of the Earth is both amazing and frightening. In the spirit of the general aggressiveness of Western propaganda, the publication claims that “the transformation of totalitarian China into a dominant space power will be a historical tragedy” for the countries...

After attempts made by the terrorist group DAESH (banned in the Russian Federation - Ed. to gain a foothold in the Middle East failed, that group began to establish branches throughout the world, including on the African continent. Consequently, in a very short time frame DAESH, taking advantage of the social ills experienced by the planet’s poorest...

During his presidency, the current boss of the White House has repeatedly, actively tried to play the “war card” to gain support for his policies - and not only from the American military, but also from the nation’s general public subjected to stepped up propaganda from the government and Hollywood about the alleged existence of “super fighters” and “super weapons...

At the end of October, the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement (banned in Russia - Ed. was excluded from the list of terrorist organizations by the US State Department. It bears reminding that the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM, a Sufi Uyghur illegal armed group created in 1993, seeks to create an independent Sharia-based state...

In the beginning of October, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order about imposing sanctions on countries that, in Washington’s opinion, “do not put forth sufficient efforts to combat human trafficking”. The list of countries put together by Washington specifically includes Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, and the DPRK. In addition, US representatives...

In September, in South Africa, in a clear repeat of events which took place last year, there was a new wave of demonstrations directed primarily against the massive numbers of Nigerians, political refugees, economic migrants, and expatriates from Lesotho, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe immigrating into the country. The local population believes that they...

US government propaganda has always done its best to convey to Americans and residents of other countries the idea that it is the richest country in the world with an advanced industry, economy and significant, well-equipped armed forces. However, with each new day, more and more residents of the United States and many other...

In 2015, during his speech at the Brookings Institution (a US research group that conducts studies and education on economics and politics, the former Chair of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke talked about whether a victorious war and an active preparation to one could become the best means for bringing the US economy from the looming crisis...

In recent years, reports on political and economic landscape in African countries have increasingly more often mentioned Turkey. In fact, this is true not only for Libya and other African nations located on the Mediterranean coastline but also for countries in the center of this continent and south of the equator. Focusing on Africa has become a key foreign policy...