Does Russia Need A Pipeline Through Belarus?

The great Belarus energy shut down is over and . . . guess what. The lights did not ‘go out all over Europe’ and ‘thousands of Germans’ did not ‘freeze in their homes’. The chance of that happening was, and is, zero.

While the scaremongering, Russophobic reporting was expected, bad-mouthing [...]

2006 really put the skids under Anglo-Russian relations.
To be honest, the year didn’t start well. Last January saw the outing of the British spies in Moscow and the fabled transmitter under the rock incident. Crawling out from under the same rock was some British Embassy funding for NG0s which were not entirely apolitical.
At least the [...]

Martin Kelly notes that Russophobia is back, big time. (Scroll down to article, ‘Let’s All Start A War With Russia‘. ) Have the Telegraph people been reading too many comics?

Junior reporters at the Telegraph (count about a reading age of 9) could be forgiven since the GRU logo is indeed Batman inspired.
Interesting note from [...]

Whatever the outcome of the Litvinenko affair, the damage to East-West relations has been done. Or perhaps, it has simply exposed the latent Russophobia that still resides in the West.
Day by day, the story of a grisly tyrant taking out a good ole boy scout has fallen apart. But the propaganda machine is still [...]

From Erinys website. Kalashnikovs for sale or rent.

The crescendo of Russophobia has climaxed with the international press declaring a new Cold War.
Are we at war with Russia? Well, with Putin, certainly, in case anyone hadn’t noticed. Ever since he started throwing his oil weight around.
It’s a war which puts some very strange bedfellows on the [...]

Since every British tabloid has linked the dissident Litvinenko with Politkovskaya, let’s link on.
As it happens, both Litvinenko and Politkovskaya were virtually unknown in Russia. You won’t find a copy of their ’sensational’ books anywhere here - nor in the Russian language, that anyone can read.
Their combined threat to the Kremlin didn’t [...]

It was in 1936 that Trotsky founded the Fourth International.
The International Bolsheviks met secretly at a summit in Geneva. The secret was, it turned out later, that they actually met in Paris, since by this time the long arm of Stalin’s terror could reach anywhere.
One of the Fourth International’s aims was to defend workers against [...]

Fresh from a game of blockade with Poland, Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave is taking on Lithuania. It’s another game of siege that’s going to end in tears.
The story so far.
Mazeikiu, the Baltics’ only refinery, is situated in Lithuania. Until recently it was owned by Yukos and Russian receivers expected to acquire the title as a [...]

As fast the Berlin Wall came down, the EU has been building it back up. You can’t paint nice murals on the Fortress Schengen wall, but it’s just as effective at keeping people in.
Russians always complain to me, ‘We can’t go anywhere on holidays. What have we done?’ I try to offer consolation by saying [...]