Russia/USSR

BRICS: not against anything, but for development, fairness and Global South

Left Review Online July 10, 2025

BRICS: not against anything, but for development, fairness and Global South

Editor's Note: The 17th BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Sunday to Monday, resulting in a joint declaration signed by member countries. Entitled "Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance," the document seals the group's commitment to strengthening multilateralism, defending international...more

BRICS Summit, joint declaration seal group’s commitment to multilateralism

Fan Anqi July 9, 2025

BRICS Summit, joint declaration seal group’s commitment to multilateralism

The growing BRICS group gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 17th BRICS Summit on Sunday, and signed a joint declaration encompassing 126 commitments covering global governance, finance, health, artificial intelligence, climate change, and other strategic areas. The document sealed the group's commitment to strengthening multilateralism, defending...more

Socialism is the only worthy future for mankind

Irina Malenko June 16, 2024

Socialism is the only worthy future for mankind

More than ten years ago I wrote a book. It was a book about daily life of an ordinary family in a socialist society. I was born and grew up in the USSR and emigrated at the time of the destruction of our socialist country. Having lived for...more

Fighting for the Russian World

Gennady Zyuganov July 15, 2023

Fighting for the Russian World

The crisis of the liberal model of running the world was inevitable. I warned of its results and alarming challenges that would fill the new century twenty years ago. My book “Globalization and the Destiny of Humankind” which was published at the time has been translated into many...more

Safeguard Humankind Against Fascism

Left Review Online April 30, 2023

Safeguard Humankind Against Fascism

SAFEGUARD HUMANKIND AGAINST FASCISM The document adopted at the International Anti-Fascist Forum in Minsk April 22, 2023 Minsk, Republic of Belarus, Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War We, the participants in the International Anti-Fascist Forum from the countries of Asia, America and Europe, have gathered...more

Nazism: UKraine’s Deadly Disease

Vyacheslav Tetekin, Dr.Sc. (History) April 15, 2022

Nazism: UKraine’s Deadly Disease

Today, as the military operation in Ukraine goes on, it is becoming increasingly evident that the ideological basis of the present Ukrainian government is extreme nationalism, or rather, overt Neo-Nazism. It is the continuation of the pro-Fascist Bandera movement which took the side of Hitler’s Germany during its...more

‘They were waiting for the moment to shut down RT America’ – Chris Hedges

Wang Wenwen April 13, 2022

‘They were waiting for the moment to shut down RT America’ – Chris Hedges

As the Ukraine conflict goes on, the US has escalated its censorship of speech. Among those censored is Chris Hedges (Hedges), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a former host for RT America. Coincidentally, he left the New York Times 17 years ago due to his vocal opposition to...more

What is happening in and around Ukraine

Dr. Vyacheslav Tetekin March 24, 2022

What is happening in and around Ukraine

There is a war in Ukraine. Outwardly, it looks like an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. All political forces, including Left, have spoken out about these events. The range of assessments: from humanistic-emotional (“people are dying, stop the war”) to purely class (“The West is pushing two...more

Russia can withstand Western sanctions after years of preparation: Chinese analysts

Left Review Online February 25, 2022

Russia can withstand Western sanctions after years of preparation: Chinese analysts

Russia has strong capacity and resilience to withstand US and EU sanctions, as its economy - which has been buffering the impact of sanctions for years - is not outward-looking, and it has been diversifying its energy exports from Europe, a process that won't encounter difficulties amid global...more

China handles complex Ukraine crisis with caution, principle

Yang Sheng, Chen Qingqing and Fan Anqi February 24, 2022

China handles complex Ukraine crisis with caution, principle

The Ukraine crisis sees new change as Russia has decided to recognize two regions in eastern Ukraine as "independent and sovereign states," and the UN Security Council has met on the issue, with China calling on all parties to continue dialogue and consultations and seek reasonable solutions. The...more

All sides should give Russia, Ukraine some space to resolve issue

Left Review Online February 24, 2022

All sides should give Russia, Ukraine some space to resolve issue

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed two decrees recognizing "the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR)" and "the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)" as independent and sovereign states. Ukraine decided to recall its charge d'affairs in Russia and will reconsider its diplomatic relations with Russia. The sudden change in the...more

China, Russia in close contact on Putin’s Beijing Winter Olympics visit, ‘shows mutual support’ amid Western threat of Olympic boycott

Fan Anqi November 25, 2021

China, Russia in close contact on Putin’s Beijing Winter Olympics visit, ‘shows mutual support’ amid Western threat of Olympic boycott

Russian President Vladimir Putin has "gladly accepted the invitation" to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and the two countries are in close communication on Putin's trip, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Tuesday. Putin's acceptance of the invitation will further...more

Russia denounces Washington for violating Cuba’s human rights

Left Review Online July 10, 2021

Russia denounces Washington for violating Cuba’s human rights

Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry has denounced the US blockade against Cuba as an example of human rights violations committed by Washington, the website of this ministry posted on Saturday. According to its report, the US keeps on seriously violating human rights both in the country and abroad,...more

Russia, China acting together can change balance of power in their favor: Vladimir Kolotov

Xia Wenxin May 28, 2021

Russia, China acting together can change balance of power in their favor: Vladimir Kolotov

Editor's Note: Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, is paying a visit to Russia from Monday to Thursday to hold the 16th round...more

Steering Russia-US relations away from diplomatic expulsion rocks

Andrey Kortunov April 29, 2021

Steering Russia-US relations away from diplomatic expulsion rocks

As the recent expulsions of Russian diplomats from the US, Poland, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic demonstrate, this measure is becoming a standard international practice of the West. For the Biden administration, a new manifestation of the "Russia's threat" is an additional tool to discipline its European allies...more