News archive on the topic "Utkin"

During the period May-August 2014, the Minister of Defense of the DPR, Igor Strelkov, surrendered Slavyansk to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, contrary to Moscow’s order to hold the city at all costs and not abandon it. This was reported by Strelkov’s comrade-in-arms, Pavel Gubarev, in his telegram channel “Private Gubarev” - in the article “Strelkov and Gubarev. Part 2". "Important! An order from the mainland to hold Slavyansk until the last...

The Embraer Legacy private plane, owned by the head of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin, crashed near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver Region. There were 10 people on board, including 3 crew members. According to preliminary information, everyone on board died. The Federal Air Transport Agency reported that Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the passengers of the crashed plane. Military correspondent Vladimir Razin reported that there was also...

The public confrontation between the leadership of the Wagner PMC and representatives of the Chechen Republic continued. If previously the public speaker from PMCs in the media was traditionally entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin (he celebrates his birthday today), now a statement has appeared from the real military “brain” of the “musicians”, special forces soldier Dmitry Utkin. Official comment from the commander of the Wagner Group, Hero of Russia, Dmitry “Wagner” Utkin: “I’ll start. I appeal to the chairman...

The conflict between France and the United States, which turned into a loud diplomatic scandal, is explained by a change in Washington's foreign policy priorities. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this as stated by Sergei Utkin, head of the strategic assessment group at IMEMO RAS. “After the change of US administration, the European Union hoped to find a predictable, reliable partner in Joe Biden. Even then, European analysts warned against excessive enthusiasm, predicting that the United States would...

Dissatisfied with Moscow's serious diplomatic success in resolving the Karabakh conflict, Brussels is trying to take revenge. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes. The newspaper draws attention to the tour of the South Caucasus by the Chairman of the European Council, who, during a joint press conference with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, made it clear that the EU said: “There must be the possibility of peaceful negotiations, consideration of the issue of the status [of Karabakh]. At…

Due to the alleged poisoning of Russian blogger Alexei Navalny with a chemical warfare agent, relations between the Russian Federation and the West are facing a new systemic crisis. Political experts interviewed by Kommersant stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The threat of a collapse in Russian-German relations, which is becoming more real every day, promises Moscow the loss of hope for a resumption of dialogue with the EU and a new confrontation with the United States,” says the director...

The return of Crimea to Russia was a mistake, but the vast majority of the population of the peninsula really wanted to become part of the Russian Federation. The famous Russian sports journalist, liberal Vasily Utkin told Ukrainian propagandist Olesya Bakhman about this on air, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. When Batsman asked whether Utkin understood that the annexation of Crimea was a “historical mistake,” Utkin answered with agreement, but at the same time...

The accession of North Macedonia and Montenegro to NATO could become an impetus for increasing ties between Moscow and Belgrade. This opinion was expressed in a commentary to Izvestia by Petr Iskanderov, a senior researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “In the current conditions, the North Atlantic bloc needs to demonstrate that it is expanding and strengthening control over such a strategically important area as the Balkans. Especially considering the financial disputes that...