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“Russia will no longer publish any demographic data. From now on, it is a state secret‘. It was with this lapidary sentence that Nona Mikhelidze, senior fellow at the Institute of International Affairs, gave voice on X to a piece of news that passed quietly but had deflagrating potential. On 2 July, Rosstat released a […]

Belgrade, Saturday 28 June. Some peaceful demonstrators are chased by the police, others brutally beaten after an afternoon of non-violent protests. What happened on Saturday is not an isolated incident. Since that tragic 1 November, when the collapse of a station shelter in Novi Sad claimed 16 lives, Serbia has been paralysed. Young people are […]

While diplomats search for loopholes, the conflict in Ukraine is increasingly moving towards a phase of strategic stalemate and head-on collision. The air attack on the night of 3 to 4 July, one of the most serious in 2025, hit six of Kyiv’s ten districts, causing at least 26 injuries, damage to health facilities, residential […]

In the contemporary narrative, especially in the media, it has become almost a conditioned reflex to ‘explain’ the decisions of authoritarian or unconventional leaders through the prism of mental pathology. Failure to understand a strategy is tantamount to declaring it senseless, ill, outside rationality. But this is a classic cognitive fallacy: the mind projection fallacy, […]

Donald Trump declared today, 5 July 2025, that Vladimir Putin ‘wants to go through with it, keep killing, it’s no good‘, also hinting that he might finally tighten sanctions against Russia. A belated admission, coming after months of a submissive approach towards the Kremlin, culminating in the US suspension of several crucial military supplies to […]

Well, who would have thought it: Vladimir ‘the Great’ Putin, the puppet of the Chinese, has decided to throw millions of poor Russians into the meat grinder of an externally imposed war. Of course! Why settle for a quick deal that would guarantee Ukraine’s independence, when you can instead send your soldiers to die for […]