Geography Archives: Russia

Chris Bambery explores the life and work of Latvian Bolshevik, Asja Lācis.

The thirtieth anniversary of the 1996 election is therefore not merely a historical commemoration.

These military attacks deep inside Russia are in reality also aimed by the United States against China and against the Global South.

Lord Ismay, NATO’s first secretary-general, once said the alliance existed to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.

As this journalist has previously revealed, in August 1957 the CIA secretly drew up elaborate plans for a U.S. special forces invasion of Ukraine.

Europe’s rulers are arming for a fight over their place in a world Washington can no longer hold together. They wave the banner of “Russian aggression,” but what they are after is control of Eurasia’s resources, pipelines, ports and trade routes.

Despite the end of the Soviet era, May 9th remains a cornerstone of global antifascist history.

The proposed amendments included softening language criticising Israel for its bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon, and dropping a reference to “East Jerusalem” to be established as the capital of the Palestinian state as a part of the two-state solution.

The Russian tanker Universal, the second shipment of fuel from Moscow to support Cuba in the face of the energy crisis aggravated by the U.S. blockade.

A Russian oil tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of crude oil docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas this week, delivering the largest fuel shipment to reach the island in months.

Just when you think cynicism has its limits, reality takes us by surprise.

The ship is carrying approximately 100,000 tons of oil classified as humanitarian aid, in a context marked by a severe energy crisis affecting the Caribbean island.

Trump boasted this week that he could ‘take’ Cuba and do ‘whatever he wants’ with the island nation, coinciding with major power outages resulting from the blockade.

Since the beneficiaries of the oil price rise will be immediately holding their windfall profits quite substantially as bank deposits that create no direct demand for goods and services, while the losers from inflation will have to curtail their total demand for goods and services in real terms, such an inflation will have a depressing effect on the level of world aggregate demand, and hence will cause a recession in the world economy.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote on social media that this was a “deliberately short-term measure” and would not be of “significant financial benefit” to Russia.

To make sense of present developments it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.

Imperial violence was not invented by Trump. It has been an integral part of this nation’s relationships with the rest of the world from its beginning. However, Trump is more direct in saying out loud what former presidents hesitated to acknowledge, instead either keeping it hidden from public view, justifying it as self-defense, or employing subtler means of intimidation.

The Sea Horse ship carrying Russian fuel is heading to Cuba amid the island’s energy situation and defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s sanctions to impose tariffs, Bloomberg reported.

It is not the first time Putin has said there is nothing but historical memory to share between Russia and Cuba; and that he would trade Russia’s military positions in Cuba for its interest in business with the U.S.

President Vladimir Putin has given instructions to accept the Trump Administration’s demand that in exchange for lifting sanctions against Russia, U.S. capital must return to Russia on preferential terms as soon as possible.