Russia is increasingly confident that deepening economic and diplomatic ties with China and the Global South will allow it to challenge the international financial system dominated by the United States and undermine the West, according to Kremlin documents and interviews with Russian officials and business executives. Russia has been buoyed by its success in holding … Read more
PODGORICA, Montenegro — After months of political bickering, the parliament in NATO member and EU candidate Montenegro is set to vote Monday on a proposed new government that will hinge on support from pro-Russian and anti-Western groups. A recently formed centrist “Europe Now” coalition that advocates the small Balkan country joining the European Union won … Read more
Comment on this storyComment RIGA, Latvia — As Russian President Vladimir Putin flies to Beijing to meet his strongest, most crucial ally — Chinese President Xi Jinping — the leaders are each hobbled by crises of their own making: Russia’s disastrous war on Ukraine; and China’s economic stumbles that have frayed confidence in Xi’s management. … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment Russia and China have lengthy seen BRICS — the financial grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — as central to their aim of countering Western world dominance. On Wednesday, the deliberate growth of the group was touted by China as a watershed second on the street to a … Read more