Russian Prime Minister Mikhail (R) and Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber shake hands during their meeting in Moscow on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has called for the Caspian littoral states to create an oil and gas cooperation committee. Mokhber broached the idea during theContinue Reading

The World Bank’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The World Bank predicts that the Ukrainian economy is going to contract eight times more than that of Russia amid Moscow’s ongoing military operation in the ex-Soviet republic. The Washington-based institution said Tuesday the Ukrainian economy would shrink by 35% this year, comparedContinue Reading

There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties. The underlying honesty and clarity mirror his speech at theContinue Reading