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The following is excerpted from a lengthy article at The Saker's blog.

Russia is the second-largest producer and the largest exporter of natural gas in the world. The country’s most important customers are in Europe where the bulk of its exports are consumed. The completion of the Power of Siberia pipeline, however, could be a pivotal moment for Moscow as it reduces its reliance on traditional customers in the West. Besides Russia’s relations with Europe, the completion of the pipeline could also affect the import of LNG into China and potentially the trade deal between Beijing and Washington. Читать дальше...

Contrary to the stereotype popular in the mainstream media, Russia is a multi-ethnic state, and has been so for centuries. Moscovy began as a core of East Slavs in the forests of north-eastern Europe, but as the state expanded, it came to encompass peoples of many ethnicities across many georgraphic zones. 

The crisis in Europe will come from Germany. Germany has entered a period of political crisis that, as yet, has not exploded.

The history of PiS (Law & Justice party) is almost entirely unknown outside of Poland. During the final year of communism the “round table talks” were held at Magdalenka, a small village near Warsaw, in 1989.

A recent article by Philip Weiss on the Mondoweiss website lays out an argument that most liberal Jews, like Weiss, are hesitant to support, namely that Jewish power, and more to the point its money, as exercised through the so-called Israel Lobby in the United States and elsewhere, has been the principal enabling force behind the international pariah that the state of Israel has be

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