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Jonathan Haslam

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Fellow, British Academy; Prof, IAS, Princeton (retired); Life Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Emeritus Prof, Cambridge University.

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A Russian military commentator, Col. Viktor Baranets, writes: "Where did Teheran obtain the most threatening [hypersonic] weapon? Iranian engineers studied in Soviet higher education institutions."

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Commentator Alexei Pil'ko, who is said to have been teaching at Moscow university for two decades but has a blank where the website lists research, claims in Putin's favourite paper that if the Americans go in against Iran, Russia will be free to end the war against Ukraine to

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This afternoon hardline paper Vzglyad appeared with a leader entitled "The USA will be taking serious risks in attacking Iran." Under the name of an obscure Uzbek commentator on the Middle East, Gevorg Mirzayan, it may well in fact reflect the predominant thinking in the

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Russia's economy is in trouble and likely to remain so. Two ministers and the head of the Central Bank have warned that Russia has now depleted the resources that enabled expanded wartime production over the last two years. The irony is that Israel's war against Iran, a "partner"

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In a press conference on 18 June Putin acknowledged: "Yes, perhaps if Trump had been president, this conflict would not have happened." He went on to say: "you know I have hopes resulting from the fact that Mr Trump is not only a politician, not only someone whom the American

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Russia has not rushed to react to the bombing by the United States of the three main underground sites where the Iranians were builing nuclear bombs. "Our countries have friendly relations", the Kremlin spokesman said. "In January, Presidents Putin and Pezeshkian signed the

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Medvedev, always the weakest of the Russian leaders, once fell victim to Obama's arrogant deceit and was humiliated over Western régime change in Libya. He has now delivered a hysterical assertion in reaction to Trump's destruction of Iran's nuclear capability. “What did the

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It is extraordinary to read the Russian press amidst the mess in the Middle East. There one finds the hardest of hardliners in the Kremlin, Patrushev, speaking at length on the importance of ecological priorities. Next to the war in Ukraine, Russia has no other international

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The Russian economy is seriously strained. Over 6% expenditure on defence has seriously imbalanced the gross national product. Inflation is far too high and the official interest rate is over 20%. As reported by Vzglyad: "Earlier Putin described the expenditure on defence in

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While Putin is just name calling, we have nothing to worry about. Today he compared the EU to a monkey riding a bicyle over a cliff. He went on: "By the way, on Friday it was discovered that the grandfather of the new head of British intelligence MI-6 was a volunteer Bandera

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Gref, the head of Sberbank, warns of trouble for the economy in 2026. See Vedomosti: Греф: 2026 год будет непростым для банков и бизнеса

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Jon Sopel, be it on Huw Edwards, Grooming Gangs, President Trump & now Keir Starmer. There's no denying he l has a remarkable ability to be spectacularly wrong.

Jon Sopel, be it on Huw Edwards, Grooming Gangs, President Trump & now Keir Starmer. There's no denying he l has a remarkable ability to be spectacularly wrong.
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On the fake Trump Russia dossier deployed by deep state Democrats to discredit the President just before the beginning of his first term in December 2016 by claiming his dependence on Putin, the latest finding out of CIA is that "The ICA [Intelligence Community Assessment]