A scene from an American film. The victim gets into the car, turns the key, and from a few metres away someone presses a button, and everything turns into a cloud of fire. In this way, on the night of 21 August, Russian journalist Darya Dugina dies.
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Two years ago, millions of Belarusians, tired of the authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenko, voted for change. On 9 August 2020, millions of Belarusians went to the polls hoping for change. In many polling stations, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya received the majority of votes, but the dictator brutally suppressed
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In three months, four top managers closely associated with Russia’s largest gas company, Gazprom, have died. They died atrociously, often together with their families. This ‘curse’ also affects businessmen from non-oil circles. Is it an unbelievable coincidence of fatal accidents or is there a plan to eliminate
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They are mercenaries known for their ferocity and determination. They appear in a conflict, like ghosts, and carry out massacres – only to disappear again. During the invasion of Ukraine, when Putin realised that conscripts were being slaughtered by the Kiev army, he sent them to defend
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There is a fragment of Asia that absolutely wants to enter the European Union. It is Georgia, one of the most culturally important countries in the history and prehistory of the world, one of the countries crushed for decades under the heel of the Soviet Union. It
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We live in times of unprecedented violence. Cradled in the wadding of our Western democracy (whose flaws and distortions we do not hide) we cannot even imagine what is happening all around us, starting with the martyrdom of the Ukrainian people, barbarously attacked by assassins sent by
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For ten days in early January 2022, Kazakhstan was on the brink of civil war. Spontaneous demonstrations over rising fuel costs escalated into urban guerrilla warfare and a military invasion by the armies of neighbouring countries allied to Russia. When they left, after 30 years of absolute
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There are famous oligarchs, protagonists of clashes with the Kremlin, with criminal convictions behind them, and forced to leave Russia to save life and property, such as Roman Abramovic, Oleg Deripaska, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others[1] – men famous for the luxury in which they live
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“If you want to build high, you must dig deep”, a Mongolian proverb says[1]. Digging deep is how Mongolia makes a living. Copper, coal, gold, Iron and zinc are the country’s leading exports[2], while deposits of molybdenum, fluorspar, uranium, and tungsten put Mongolia on the map of
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The red and white flag no longer flies. The cities of Belarus are full of new red-green flags – the symbol of a ‘new’ old government. The protests have calmed down with the arrival of winter, but it only takes a little something to set them off
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