World

17.04.2023

The universe of deception?

Which challenges does Meta* corporation face? Recently, this organization, recognized as extremist in Russia, has been facing more and more claims from large businesses and even its own shareholders. In late March, Free TV Australia, which represents Australian broadcasters, claimed that fraudulent advertisements featuring their …

Elena Aleksandrova

06.04.2023

Five eyes are watching us

A huge intelligence alliance intends to expand. The Five Eyes Pact (FVEY) has been in existence since 1943, but there are no grand celebrations of its 80th anniversary: it is secret. It has no address, no office, and no employees. Originally, it was an alliance …

Maksim Chikin

29.03.2023

No life without China

This is becoming a defining factor on all continents. Do you remember how the Western media furiously wrote that after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Chinese President Xi Jinping should call Zelensky in Kiev? The US State Department and Pentagon officials even reproached the …

Mihail Morozov, "Trud" columnist

10.03.2023

What has the coming bot in store for us?

What the use of artificial intelligence can lead to. The year has just started, but it is almost clear that ChatGPT, a chatbot with artificial intelligence (AI), will win in the "Discovery of the Year" nomination. Launched by OpenAI in November 2022, by January of …

Elena Aleksandrova

09.03.2023

No brakes in neutral

Traditionally neutral countries seem to be reconsidering their concept of non-interference. The situation in Ukraine has sharply shuffled the cards of European geopolitics. Countries that since the mid-nineteenth century abstracted from any kind of military action, joined Holy Alliances and accepted oppressed people, can no …

Maksim Chikin

08.03.2023

We also need the Turkish coast

We need Africa, as well. Which countries except Turkey have not joined the boycott of Moscow. Is Russia really in total isolation? Let's look at some concrete examples. For example, the president and chancellor of Germany recently came to Brazil with the very specific goal …

Aleksey Malyan

07.03.2023

A year in reverse: How YouTube proved itself in 2022

The American corporation Google's subsidiary, the video hosting site YouTube, has long been an interesting platform for Russian media and bloggers. But now the blocking switch is working like a weapon. Yes, there have always been difficulties: in 2020, the video hosting site deleted the …

Elena Aleksandrova

06.03.2023

Google. Staffing doesn't solve everything

Will the reshuffle at Google change the company's questionable policies? Not so long ago the news of Susan Wojcicki's resignation was widely circulated in the media. The place of a truly legendary figure of the American technology business (Susan participated in the founding of Google, …

Elena Aleksandrova

02.12.2022

Who was in line to meet Xi?

Note: this is a machine translation from the original Russian text "An increasingly multipolar world." With this phrase, German Chancellor Scholz expressed what is on the mind of his colleagues in the Western coalition: global changes are evident. As we remember, at the Group of …

Mihail Morozov, "Trud" columnist

01.12.2022

Russia-Ukraine: Is a Doomsday Scenario Looming?

Everybody predicts we are going to face an ice-cold winter in the Global North, especially in Europe and particularly in Ukraine. In the meantime, Russia is amassing along the northern Ukrainian border some half a million-plus troops and about 1,500 tanks and massive-massive artillery, ready …

Peter Koenig

18.11.2022

G-20 Summit: Declaration of differences

Note: this is a machine translation from the original Russian text As at the preliminary meetings of the Indonesian presidency of the Group of Twenty, the summit at the highest level showed that the contradictions between East and West are getting deeper. It is logical …

Mihail Morozov, "Trud" columnist

16.11.2022

Xi and Biden talked, each about his own

Note: this is a machine translation from the original Russian text An analysis of official reports on the meeting between the US President and the Chinese president shows that the differences between the two sides are intractable. "Today I met with President of the People's …

Mihail Morozov, "Trud" columnist