Ilya Tsukanov is a Moscow-based correspondent specializing in Eastern European, US and Middle Eastern politics, Cold War history, energy security and military affairs. Member of the Sputnik team since the site's inception in 2014.
The past two months have witnessed dramatic changes in the Middle East’s security architecture, with February’s devastating earthquakes sparking an outpouring of diplomatic and...
The general's remarks come amid Russia's ongoing military operation in Ukraine, which began eight years after a US-backed coup in Kiev overthrew the country's...
Today’s elections are Angola’s fourth since the end of a brutal, decades-long foreign-backed civil war in 2002, with the main opposition group which once...
Monday marks the one year anniversary of the fall of Kabul and the collapse of the US and NATO-backed Afghan government.
Afghanistan’s capital fell to...