Russia said on Thursday it was expelling two U.S. diplomats it accused of working with a Russian national accused of collaborating with a foreign state. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had summoned U.S. envoy Lynne Tracy and told her that embassy first secretary Jeffrey Sillin and second secretary David Bernstein…
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A North Korea-Russia alliance is about more than weapons
Earlier this week, the world woke up to an unsettling piece of news: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is reportedly planning a trip outside of his nation’s airtight borders to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will discuss with him a munitions deal that might replenish Moscow’s stockpile of weapons for the war…
Nobody seems surprised Wagner’s Prigozhin died under suspicious circumstances
The evident death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in a fiery plane crash Wednesday, exactly two months after his Wagner mercenary army captured a Russian military garrison and marched on Moscow, did not come as a surprise to Russia experts or even casual observers of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “You may recall, when I was asked about this…
Is Xi’s G20 snub worse for China or India?
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has decided not to attend the two-day Group of 20 summit starting Sept. 9 in India. Xi attended the 2020 and 2021 meetings virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic, but this will be the first time a Chinese leader has skipped one of the gatherings outright since the first summit in…