VIGIL Journal — Russia in the New World: News, World Politics and Geopolitics

While Russia Marches Toward Import Substitution, the Pentagon Prays to Chinese Magnets

Пока импортозамещение шагает по России, Пентагон молится на китайские магниты

Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov - threats against the real military math: can Russia actually answer Europe

Kurils: Iturup, the Island That Has Seen These Protests Before

State Duma Elections 2026: A Vote Without a Choice?

London Fears the Silence on the Line and Asks Moscow to Pick Up the Phone Again

Green Energy vs. Oil and Gas: Who Wins Over the Next 20 Years

How a Small Pocket of Resistance Brought Down a Great Empire

Old Man Prokopiou Doesn't Read State Department Briefings - He Reads Freight Rates

Is GDP a Fiction? Why the Economy's Main Metric No Longer Works

The Mecca Pact Just Delivered a Eulogy for the Unipolar Era

Geopolitical Digest

Geopolitical Digest by Mikhail Azhgirevich, August 13, 2026

Russia–Japan: Putin makes first visit to Iturup, Japan summons Russian ambassador

Russia grain: KSK grain terminal in Novorossiysk halts operations

Ukraine–Russia: Ukraine proposes mutual halt to strikes on civilian targets in the Black Sea

US Navy: United States replaces USS Abraham Lincoln with USS George Washington in the Middle East

Russia–Ukraine: Russia and Ukraine exchange bodies of fallen soldiers

Market Review by Mikhail Azhgirevich: August 11–13, Oil Is Screaming About War While AI Pretends Not to Hear

United States: The Market Buys Back Inflation, Ignoring the Oil Shock

Oil: The "Geopolitical Premium" Is a Euphemism for Fear of a New War

Defense Industry: Europe Is Charging Up for Years, America Is Burning Through Strategic Missile Stockpiles

The Ruble Weakens Despite Expensive Oil

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