Vladimir Putin is confronted with a significant political uprising as Bashkiri nationalists demand independence from Russia, posing a threat to the country’s territorial integrity and potentially inspiring other dissident regions. The Bashkirs, an ethnic minority of Kipchak Turkic descent, inhabit their autonomous republic, Bashkortostan, located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains... 

A former intelligence officer claimed that China is making use of social media to sow racial discord in the United States. This race-baiting strategy, he added, seeks to decrease faith in the American political system and ultimately destroy the country from within. Nicholas Eftimiades, a senior fellow at Washington, D.C.-based think tank Atlantic Council, put forward this claim during a Sept. 30 interview... 

At the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party, China’s president, Xi Jinping, gave a lengthy address during which he hailed the party’s accomplishments in preserving social stability and national security while also promising to pursue the cause of Taiwan’s reunification. Around 2,300 party delegates heard Xi say on Sunday that “the Taiwan subject is a concern for the... 

According to Taiwan Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng, Taipei has cautioned Beijing against conducting any military aircraft into Taiwanese airspace and has vowed to respond to any such intrusions with a “first strike.” Chiu warned legislators that Taipei will respond if any Chinese fighter planes or drones entered Taiwan’s airspace on Wednesday during a hearing of the Legislature’s... 

In a gun and knife assault at a children’s facility in northeast Thailand on Thursday, more than 30 people were slain, the majority of them were children, according to local authorities. The massacre in the Nong Bua Lamphu Province town of Uthai Sawan claimed the lives of 36 persons in total, including 24 children. Police report that the incident harmed at least 12 other people. The person who... 

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has opened dozens of unofficial police stations around the world, including at least three in Toronto, Canada, according to a September report from human rights NGO, Safeguard Defenders. The report claims that China has been engaging in “long-arm policing” around the world in what has been dubbed the “110 overseas police stations,” named after the police emergency... 

As Vladimir Putin intensifies his focus on the controversial annexation of Ukraine, his abandonment of allies becomes starkly evident, leaving Armenia to grapple with escalating tensions with Azerbaijan. The region is witnessing a surge in violence, with over 200 Armenian soldiers and 80 Azerbaijani troops losing their lives in clashes on September 13-14 and later on September 28, marking the most... 

FINALLY! Surrounding smaller countries can begin to breathe more relaxed soon as the Russian evil empire will finally come to an end. Experts are predicting with certainty that Russia will collapse and disintegrate into dozens of smaller states. There will no longer be any large aggressive Russia as you know today, to bully its smaller neighbors. This is great. The sooner, the better! NATO is already... 

Japan on Tuesday demanded Russia apologise for detaining a diplomat over alleged espionage, denying the charge and accusing Moscow of blindfolding and pinning the man down in ‘unbelievable acts’. Motoki Tatsunori, a Japanese diplomat based in the eastern city of Vladivostok, was deemed ‘persona non grata over illegal intelligence activities’, top government spokesman Hirokazu... 

Kazakhstan has risked the wrath of Putin by offering to ‘care for’ Russian men fleeing conscription due to the ‘hopeless situation’ back home. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, president of the ex-Soviet state, also offered muted criticism of Putin’s war – saying that the ‘territorial integrity of states must be preserved’ as the despot moves to carve up Ukraine... 

A former Chinese deputy policing minister has been jailed for life in a huge crackdown on dissent by Chinese despot Xi Jinping. Sun Lijun was handed life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole, but did have his death sentence commuted ahead of a Communist Party conference next month. State press agency Xinhua reported that Sun, 53, was convicted of collecting 646 million yuan ($91 million) in... 

Narendra Modi delivered a scathing rebuke to Vladimir Putin at a televised meeting in Uzbekistan, telling his Russian counterpart that it was not the time for wars now because now we live in a relatively age of peace. Modi went on to scold Putin, telling him that that Russia’s problems with Ukraine must be solved through democracy, diplomacy and dialogue and that this is the way on how to progress... 

He needs a decisive – and crucially, quick – victory. This could come sooner than expected. But it probably won’t be in Ukraine. Instead look south-eastward, to the South Caucasus and another of Russia’s backyards where this week fighting has flared up again between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the deadliest since a fragile ceasefire between those two was brokered by Moscow in 2020. Theirs is a... 

According to trade figures made public this week by the Japanese Finance Ministry, Tokyo’s imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia climbed considerably in August. The data shows that the volume of Russian LNG deliveries to Japan increased by 211.2% from August 2021. Russian LNG imports increased by more than 380% in value. In contrast, the number and value of imports of Russian oil... 

The aggressive Turks in Azerbaijan are in big trouble as more and more Western countries begin to side with Armenia and threaten Azerbaijan with sanctions and severe repercussions for their aggressive war against Armenia. Armenians are desperately calling on social media for the West to step up its game and start supporting Armenia like they are doing with Ukraine. However there is a problem with...