Category: Security
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Italy To Lead Construction of New NATO Base in Bulgaria
Internet news site, bourgas.ru, situated in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast city of Burgas, and catering to speakers of Russian as their native language, on August 13, 2025, reported that in the near future Bulgaria and Italy would begin construction of a new NATO military base in Bulgaria’s Yambol Province. Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense, in…
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What Many Westerners Don’t Get About The Gaza War
The Blogs Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem Academic Center. This is a re-posting of a post written for the The Blogs of the internet news site, The Times of Israel, by…
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Greece – A Southern Europe Energy Hub
This post contains an abbreviated chronology of the development of the ‘Vertical Corridor,’ a means of supplying natural gas to the countries of Central and East Europe that have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This energy delivery route is being made possible in large part thanks to the efforts made by Greece to…
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Israel-Hamas Conflict: Germany Warned to Expect Consequences of Supporting Israel; Undercurrent of Radical Islam Simmers, early December 2023
Senior reporter for the German-language newspaper, Welt am Sonntag (The World on Sunday), Per Hinrichs, on December 1, 2023, wrote an opinion piece, “Risk of Attack: Islamism has finally come to our everyday lives.” Hinrich’s article was spurred by news that local police had foiled an attack planned by two ‘Islamists’ targeting a Christmas market;…
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Organization of Turkic States Looks To Strengthen Mutual Security; Azerbaijan Discusses Military Cooperation with Pakistan, early/mid-November 2023
The internet site of the Azerbaijan newspaper, Yeni (New) Azərbaycan, in its November 3, 2023, Azerbaijani language edition, reported that at the 10th Organization of Turkic States (TDT) summit of heads-of-state recently held in Astana, Kazakhstan, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasım-Jomart Tokayev, called for member states [Translator note: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan] to…
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Putin Uses Victory Day Speech To Laud “Participants” in the Ukraine SMO, 9 May 2023
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2023, spoke at the military parade in Moscow on Red Square to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany on that day in 1945. Using the May 9 celebration as a springboard, Putin in his 10-minute speech brought to the fore the “Special…
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The Arrest of WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia and Reaction to It. Chronology
Voice of America’s Russian language service correspondent Masha Morton has filed a detailed report documenting the chronology of the arrest of The Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, Evan Gershkovich. Morton’s April 3 account will probably be the most factually-based version of the incident that Russian-only speakers will receive, given the anti-free speech climate in…
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Following Zaho Attack, Baghdad Demands Turkiye Withdraw Troops from Iraq, Ankara Maintains Right to Defend Against Terrorism, late July 2022
The Turkish page of the German news provider, Deutsche Welle (DW), published an internet article on July 27, 2022, after the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting to address the July 20 artillery attack by as yet unknown perpetrators on the village of Perex, a northern Iraq tourist destination.[1] According to the DW report,…
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Turkish Gambit and Kurdish Pawns; Turkiye’s Sudden Acquiescence of its “Unbending” Positions to Add Instability to Several Regions
Moscow, July 8, 2022, Institute RUSSTRAT Turkiye has opened a Pandora’s Box of issues by reneging on its declared intent to block the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO until those two countries extradited the Kurdish terrorists who had allegedly sought asylum there. This was the opinion of the Russtrat Institute, a conservative think…
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NATO, Finland, Sweden happy; Kurds, worried
This report was written by Brussels-based journalist Maria Psara for the internet news service, Euronews, and published on the site’s Greek language page on June 30, 2022, following the June 28 trilateral security agreement that was agreed to by Finland, Sweden, and Turkiye (as Turkey is now called). With security assurances in place regarding the…
The Dragon is Slain 