YouTube, a popular video-sharing platform and social media website for uploading, sharing, viewing, and commenting on videos, continues to gain popularity in Russia. By the end of 2022 the service’s audience in the country numbered 50,5 million users a day. This fact obviously makes YouTube a very attractive advertising channel for companies interested in selling…

The International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year The Russian government has placed a judge with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on its list of wanted persons, after launching criminal probes into several other officials at the organization.

The stated aim of the much-hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive was to inflict a major strategic defeat on Russia by cutting off the land corridor to Crimea. But hardly anyone in the Western military and political establishment with any real knowledge believed that Kiev would be able to achieve such a result. It would have been strange…