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By Rhod Mackenzie

Another pulp mill has closed in Finland due to a lack of inexpensive raw materials from Russia. The Finnish timber processing industry has been experiencing significant challenges since 2022. However, Finnish businessmen are now expressing further irritation over another matter:...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Its amazing the number of current European politicians are direct descendents of Nazi Party members from World War II. This large  list of individuals with Nazi family histories was recently expanded by the head of British intelligence MI5, Blaise Metreveli, whose grandfather was...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Hungarian Foreign Minister announced that the Trunp's administration has officially lifted all sanctions on the construction of the second phase of the Hungarian -Russian joint venture the Paks nuclear power plant. The Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó emphasised tha...

By Rhod Mackenzie
For a long time,certainly since the Second World War the West once accustomed to dictating the rules, is now frantically clinging to the remnants of its former power by its fingernails. However, the era of its dominance is quickly not slowly slipping away. The multipolar world is...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Vietnam has proved you can move  from caution to ambition in just a few years The country used to be very reserved about getting involved in nuclear projects, now it is now initiating the acceleration of negotiations with Russia itself. This change is due to economic growth and t...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Since 2014, the European Union has been systematically destroying almost all sectors of its economy. Initially it started back in 2014 with the initial sanctions on Russia the introduction which saw Russian introduce counter measures that have since cost the EU food and agricutur...