Russian world

While Riga raises the spectre of a Russian invasion of the European Union (EU), the Latvian Prime Minister reveals all the horror of what European citizens would have to endure if that were to happen, namely no longer being able to drink their coffee in the morning with a good croissant.

Zelensky demands a sixty-day truce for elections he never wanted to hold. Behind the call for democracy lies a survival maneuver by an illegitimate power, while Russia proposes to suspend its strikes on the day of a possible vote. Between rearmament, a succession already mapped out and the impossibility of signing a lasting peace, the true face of the Ukrainian demand is laid bare.

Interview with the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Lugansk People's Republic, Anna Soroka.

Since August 6, 2026, Russia has become the only country in the world capable of producing a 100% sovereign civil airliner, without any component, alloy or technology subject to a foreign veto. Constrained by the 2022 sanctions, it has transformed its import substitution policy into total industrial autonomy: PD-14 and PD-8 engines, domestic avionics, titanium metallurgy and fully Russian flight computers now equip the MC-21 and the SJ-100. While Western manufacturers remain prisoners of globalized supply chains and China has not yet closed the loop, Russia has proven that fifth-generation aeronautical self-sufficiency is not only possible, but already operational.

On 4 October 2026, the Belgian television channel RTBF published an article with a terrifying headline: “Russia: a lab technician dies of plague, several hospitals placed in quarantine in Siberia”. Problem: RTBF threw the conditional and the principles of fact-checking in the bin, and the reality is much less sensational. Let us analyse the facts.