Better Off Without You: Is Trump Giving Up on Poland by Slashing Aid by 100%? Poland is the only EU member state which is facing a suggested 100 percent cut in US financial assistance for 2018, joining other Central and Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine. 26.04.2017
How powerful will Russia’s only aircraft carrier be after modernization? Forty billion rubles ($708 million) will be spent to modernize Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, after which it will not just be an aircraft carrier but will also be able to strike at the enemy using Kalibr-NK cruise missiles. 25.04.2017
Macron, Le Pen Advance to 2nd Round of French Presidential Vote Emmanuel Macron of the centrist En Marche! movement and right-wing National Front leader Marine Le Pen won the first round of French presidential election, thus triggering a run-off on May 7. 24.04.2017
Why Russia's Ground Forces Are One of the World's Best The German weekly newsmagazine Focus has named Russia among the world’s top three most powerful nations. 23.04.2017
Russia Ready to Prioritize Air Defense Systems Deliveries to Syria Russia is ready to provide Syria with the air defense systems it needs if such an agreement is reached, Russian Senator Viktor Ozerov told Sputnik Saturday. 22.04.2017
Snap UK General Election Is a Desperate Attempt to Derail Scottish Independence British Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to call a snap general election bears all the hallmarks of a government in the throes of a continuing political crisis in the wake of last year's referendum result to rip the UK out of the EU, commonly referred to as Brexit. 21.04.2017
Deja Vu? UK May Repeat US Election Turmoil in June British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a snap general election to be held on June 8, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn welcoming the move. 20.04.2017
Tougher Times Ahead? How Turkey's Foreign Policy Could Change After Referendum Speaking to Sputnik Turkey, a number of Turkish experts commented on how their country's foreign policy will develop following last week's constitutional referendum in Turkey, in which President Erdogan claims to have received a majority "yes" vote to expand his presidential authority. 19.04.2017
Does Anyone Still Believe That Trump Will Fulfill His Election Promises? US President Donald Trump's image as a strong and decisive leader that fulfills his promises has started to fade after two months of his presidency. 18.04.2017
Russian MP Balks at Boris Johnson's Invite to Fight Terror in Syria Together British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged Russia to join the international coalition's efforts to fight Daesh, indicating that he's lost touch with reality, according to Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Russian Upper House's Foreign Affairs Committee. 17.04.2017
Turkish Opposition CHP Party Plans to Challenge Referendum Results The Republican People's Party (CHP), one of the main Turkish opposition parties, announced an intention to challenge the results of Sunday's referendum on constitutional changes, Erdal Aksunger, the party's deputy chairman, said. 16.04.2017
North Korea's Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles Displayed at Military Parade The North Korean authorities reportedly displayed on Saturday submarine-launched ballistic missiles at the military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of founder and former leader Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang. 15.04.2017
Russian, German Cosmonauts Reveal Future Prospects of 'the Conquest of Space' Earth, and nature, must be preserved - this is an urgent task that can only be tackled by all countries together, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Yeliseyev said on Cosmonautics Day, on April 12, in Berlin. 14.04.2017
Trump Refuses to Confirm He Authorized Use of Giant Bomb in Afghanistan On Thursday, US President Donald Trump declined to take responsibility for the use of the Pentagon's "mother of all bombs" that is said to be its most powerful non-nuclear weapon. 13.04.2017
Sweden Warming Up to Israeli Methods Against Terrorism The deadly recent truck attack in Stockholm has left Sweden in shock and prompted politicians and pundits to ponder ways of possibly putting an end to such attacks altogether. 12.04.2017
US Missile Strike 'Pushes Syria to the Brink of Afghanistan-Like Havoc' In response to the US missile attack on the Syrian military airfield in Ash Sha'irat near Homs, a number of high-ranking Afghan politicians and experts interviewed by Sputnik have said that it resembles the scenario of the "punitive" US operation in Afghanistan back in 2001, which instigated havoc in the country and left the US bogged down there. 11.04.2017
Why We Shouldn't Worry About Fake News Distinguished research psychologist Robert Epstein says that efforts by Google, Facebook and others to try to suppress fake news are potentially more harmful than fake news itself. 10.04.2017
'Dirty Geopolitical Game': West-Backed Jihadis Carried Out Syria Chemical Attack Tuesday's chemical weapons attack in Idlib province, which rebel groups claim was committed by the Syrian army, bears similarities to the "false flag" attack carried out by jihadists in Ghouta in 2013, Middle Eastern expert Michael Lueders told Germany's ZDF television. 09.04.2017
What stops Moscow and Beijing from forming a military bloc? Given the level of contacts at the military level between Russia and China, the countries already have a de facto military bloc, but there is little chance of such an alliance becoming formal, writes Vasily Kashin. 08.04.2017
Why US Attack in Syria Seems to Be 'Pre-Planned' The US missile attack on Syria was de facto in the interests of terrorists, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. 07.04.2017
