Ukraine and its allies say Russia launched an unprovoked war. Russia withdrew from peace treaty talks with Japan and froze joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril Islands because of Japanese sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. MORE: Places the U.S. Government ...
The Allies urged the new government to attack the Germans, to take pressure off the Western Front. The result was an offensive for which the Russians were not prepared, which the Germans destroyed, and which then led to a successful German counter-offensive. More durably effective would have ...
/ Photo courtesy Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, Wikimedia Commons Meanwhile, France, looking for allies against Germany after 1871, formed a military alliance in 1894, with large-scale loans to Russia, sales of arms, and warships, as well as diplomatic supp...
Conventional wisdom has suggested that the two powers are natural allies in the Arctic, due to their mutual distrust of Western motives in the region, and Beijing’s reluctance to condemn the invasion of Ukraine. The joint Sino-Russian Declaration, which included the now notorious vow of a ‘n...
In even broader terms, it was seen as a victory for conservative, isolationist forces supported by Russia against a liberal, Western-dominated global order that the Kremlin (and its allies) have been seeking to undermine. In his first remarks since the election, President Vladimir Putin said Thu...
Lev Markovich already has a catastrophically dwindling number of allies, given his inappropriate Leopold the Cat-like appeals and dubious patriotic outbursts. After his latest musings, this number has precipitously plunged. “Alas, they didn’t understand me,” the annoyed Schlosberg must say, ...
The Ukrainian president has repeatedly asked NATO to establish a no-fly zone over his country, but the U.S. and its allies have so far rejected that request. Setting up a no-fly zone would mean the alliance would have to shoot down Russian aircraft over Ukraine. ...
“Geographical pathology”. This field of study was perhaps first taken to be of minimal. These studies were developed due to the massive size of the Nation and its allies and the range of meteorological, climatic, topographic and vegetation zones that defined the countryside. Russia also some ...
The countries invoked as champions of ‘conservative freedom’ and safety against ‘gender ideology’ in Norway were generally Western allies, namely Hungary and Poland. That said, two key Norwegian authors of antigenderist discourse in our corpus did mention Russia in positive terms. Given the ...
and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia's central bank and finance ministry, blocking around $300 billion of sovereign Russian assets in the West. U.S. and British officials have worked in recent months to jumpstart efforts to confiscate Russian assets immob...