Wars for the Waterways: Historical Struggle for World’s Strategic Straits and Canals
[Sputnik] - 01/1/2025
Donald Trump’s threat to seize the Panama Canal and the Houthis’ disruption of commercial shipping via the Suez to the tune of $7 billion in 2024 reminded the world of the significance of these and other strategic maritime choke points to global trade. What have the competing claims to key trade (…)
In Russian newspapers
How a Turbulent 2024 Tested Putin’s Regime
The war in Ukraine is depleting the Kremlin’s resources at an accelerating pace.
[The Moscow Times] - 31/12/2024
Ukraine loses up to 1,050 troops in all areas of special military operation in past day
Russian air defenses downed seven HIMARS and Uragan rockets and 66 Ukrainian drones in the past day, according to (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 1/01/2025
Russian forces targeted several key facilities in Ukraine over the past 24 hours, including an energy infrastructure (…)
[Sputnik] - 1/01/2025
Houthis claim to have downed US drone over Yemen
According to the movement’s military spokesman Yahya Saria, this is the second MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 1/01/2025
No major incidents during New Year celebrations in Russia
A total of 41,300 law enforcement officers were involved in ensuring law and order, along with members of the (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 1/01/2025
Supplies of Russian gas via Ukraine ended at 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (05:00 GMT) on January 1, according to a (…)
[Sputnik] - 1/01/2025
Over 1 mln members of Ukrainian armed forces killed or wounded since start of special op
Data obtained from the Russian defense ministry’s daily bulletins and other open-access information from its (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 1/01/2025
Elon Musk has reportedly been living in a cottage at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence since the US presidential (…)
[RT] - 1/01/2025
Russia bans mining in ten regions from January 1
The ban was introduced in Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Circassia, North Ossetia, Chechnya, (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 1/01/2025
At least ten dead as vehicle plows into crowd in New Orleans
30 people suffered injuries, the local authorities said
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 1/01/2025
Nearly 500,000 Join Pro-Palestinian Rally in Istanbul – Organizers
ISTANBUL (Sputnik) - Some 450,000 politicians and activists are taking part in a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul (…)
[Sputnik] - 1/01/2025
