Putin’s recent speech to the Federal Assembly contained two part: a foreign policy part which was nothing short of historical, and an internal economics part which was very disappointing to say the least. In fact, I would say that it was outright frightening. I won’t post the full text here, but you can consult if for yourself by clicking here. But here is my summary of Putin’s message: We will
(You can download this file directly by following the links at this source.) Transcript of podcast no. 3 Provided by the kind help of a wonderful lady “A” Dear friends, welcome to the third Saker podcast, I am the Saker, and its a real pleasure for me to have you with me again. This time again I got alot of very interesting questions. I hope you will enjoy
Dear friends, The 3rd Saker Podcast is now available for download and/or streaming from Soundcloud, Mediafire, YouTube and the Internet Archive. Since corporate America prevents me from posting even 30 seconds of copyrighted music, I recommend you download/stream the podcast from the Internet Archive.I also remind you that the main purpose of these podcasts is to serve as a reminder that my work depends on your donations, so if you
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The Russian media has provided more details about what exactly happened in Grozny. The picture did not fundamentally change, but there are a few interesting details. It turns out that the group of Wahabis were ethnic Chechens, at least for 4 out of 9, and that they managed to enter Grozny in several cars. This is not much of a feat, since the checkpoints at the entry of the city
Dear friends, The full address of President Putin to the Federal Assembly is now available online and, since this is a very long text, I will no re-post it here. What I propose to do here is to bring to your attention four verbatim excerpts from his speech with some key segments bolded out.Most of the speech was on economic and internal matters, but I think that these four points
Dear friends,I have the delight to inform you of the officially ‘birth’ of the latest member of our Saker Community – the Italian Saker Blog which you can now visit by clicking on the following link:http://www.vineyardsaker.it/I think that Italian speakers will be delighted by this event. The folks working on this blog are truly very interesting and good people, and I am sure that a top-quality community will now coalesce
The full transcript is (sigh, rolleyes) not yet available on the Presidential website (even though they must have had the text available for many hours already), but once it comes out I will post it along with an analysis of this crucial speech.The Saker
Dear friends,There is a lot of speculation about what really happened in Grozny in the past hours and some are even suspecting that the US has somehow re-ignited the Wahabi underground for a new insurrection.This is far from being the case.What really happened is that one of the major Wahabi terrorist groups which was traveling in three cars was blocked at a checkpoint. The Wahabis opened fire and killed all
by Alexander Mercouris The reaction to the cancellation of the Sound Stream project has been a wonder to behold and needs to be explained very carefully. In order to understand what has happened it is first necessary to go back to the way Russian-European relations were developing in the 1990s. Briefly, at that period, the assumption was that Russia would become the great supplier of energy and raw materials to
I want to draw your attention to a recent interview of Dmitry Orlov by by Chris Martenson from Peak Prosperity. I agree with every single word Orlov’s says during this interview, and I think that he did a fantastic job explaining many complex issues. Frankly, I consider that a *must listen*.Enjoy!The Saker
My Bulgarian colleagues have always told me that whatever happens, they would certainly implement South Stream, because this corresponds to their national interests. But here, unfortunately, this did not come to pass. If Bulgaria is deprived of the opportunity to act as a sovereign nation, then they should at least demand money from the European Commission to compensate for their lost profits, because direct revenues to Bulgaria’s budget alone would
Dear friends,I would like to announce that I will be recording the next Saker Podcast #3 the coming week-end and, hopefully, make it available here by Monday morning on the (temporary) Saker Podcasts home page:https://sites.google.com/site/sakerpodcast/homePlease note that thanks to the kind help of a wonderful lady “A” the Saker Podcast #1 transcript is now available for download from Mediafire (one zipped file containing the transcript in ODT, PDF and RTF
The deal between Russia and Turkey signed yesterday is truly a game changer for the EU and it is at least as painful as the Russian retaliatory sanctions against the EU agricultural export. Having achieved such a victory, you would imagine that the Russians would be eager to not only explain it, but also make some good PR from it.Think again.I just went to the English version of the Russian
