National Security

In the early evening of April 21, I boarded a train from Simferopol to Moscow. Simferopol is the capital of Crimea. It is over 2,000 km away from Moscow by train. The entire journey takes about [...]

Recently, after I had spent several weeks in Russia, I received an interview request from Worlds Apart a geopolitical analysis program airing weekly on RT. The host of Worlds Apart, Oksana Boyko, [...]

[Note: The photographs and videos in this article were taken by me during my visit to Sevastopol.] During the past decade of conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the Crimean port of Sevastopol [...]

Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, is the day U.S. and Soviet troops met at the Elbe River in Germany, marking an historic step toward the end of WWII in Europe. On April 25, I participated in an online [...]

On April 17, while I was travelling in Crimea (where I remain), I received an email from National Post weekly columnist Adam Zivo. In his email, Adam requested an interview, stating [...]

Those of us living in the West are shown the Ukraine war almost entirely from the Ukrainian perspective. Moreover, what we see is heavily filtered by media personalities whose bias is [...]

On April 1, 2023, for the first time in my life, I arrived in Moscow. Ten days later, I boarded a train for Crimea. While taking the 28-hour train ride to Simferopol, which is about 2,000 km from [...]

On April 5, the Valdai Club in Moscow hosted an expert discussion, titled “The New Economic Order: Is it Really Possible to End the Dollar Monopoly?” I participated in that discussion, along with [...]

On April 6, 2023, I delivered a presentation at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia’s leading university for the study of international affairs. The subject of [...]

On April 3, 2023, while in Moscow, I joined Yves Engler on Canadian Foreign Policy Hour to discuss the latest pro-NATO propaganda published by a Canadian University. With the obvious goal of [...]