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Russia returning to superpower status
Russia returning to superpower status
The leader of Russia has said that the worst disaster of the 20th century was the fall of the Soviet Union. He is now rebuilding his nation’s former empire. The leader is new. The ideology is different. But the ultimate goal is the same: raw power. The only question is, will the prince of Russia succeed?
Why are we watching this trend?
Russia returning to superpower status
The leader of Russia has said that the worst disaster of the 20th century was the fall of the Soviet Union. He is now rebuilding his nation’s former empire. The leader is new. The ideology is different. But the ultimate goal is the same: raw power. The only question is, will the prince of Russia succeed?
Why are we watching this trend?
Events
Trumpet Coverage & Events
2023
MAR
  • Russia Plans to Recruit 400,000 Contract Soldiers
  • Massive Anti-Russia Protests Erupt in Georgia
  • Russian Missile Attack on Ukraine Threatens Nuclear Power Plant
  • Russia Continues Military Shipments Through Black Sea
FEB
  • India Abstains From UN Vote on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
  • Putin Suspends Nuclear Arms Treaty With the U.S.
  • Russia Is ‘Reeducating’ Thousands of Ukrainian Children
  • Russia’s Northern Fleet Armed With Nuclear Weapons for First Time in 30 Years
  • Bakhmut Under Heavy Russian Shelling
  • Ukrainian Children Being Taken to Russia by the Thousands
  • India Fueling the West With Russian Oil
  • Despite War, India Continues Joint Weapons Manufacturing With Russia
  • U.S. to Send Ukraine Additional $2 Billion of Military Aid
  • A World United Against U.S. Sanctions
JAN
  • Russia and China Train Navy in South Africa
  • India Is Buying 33 Times More Russian Oil
  • Russia Warns NATO of Nuclear War
  • NATO Nations to Send Tanks to Ukraine
  • Russia’s Nuclear-Capable Torpedoes
  • Russia Uses Stealth Jets to Attack Ukraine
  • NATO Nations to Send Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine
  • Russian Oil Goes to India and China Because of Western Sanctions
  • Russia’s Ukrainian Militias
  • Belarus Calls Men to Enlistment Offices
  • Russia Fires Massive Missile Barrage Across Ukraine
  • North Korea Says Nuclear Arsenal Will Grow Much Larger
  • Russia Deploys Warship to Atlantic Armed With Hypersonic Zircon Missiles
  • Russian Military Base in Makiivka Destroyed
  • Russia Plots Extended Drone Campaign to ‘Exhaust’ Ukraine
  • Iran to Acquire Russian Fighter Jets
  • Russia Has Caused Nearly 18,000 Confirmed Civilian Casualties in Ukraine: Report
2022
DEC
  • Putin Shores Up Ties With Cuba
  • Could War Erupt in Kosovo?
  • North Korea Flies Drones Into South Korea
  • Russia and Belarus Forces Work Together
  • Russia Is Committing Genocide in Ukraine
  • Russia and China to Perform Naval Drills
  • Has Putin Found His General Sherman?
  • Vladimir Putin: Threat of Nuclear War Rising
  • Putin Drives Across Crimea Bridge, Showing Commitment to Ukraine Conquest
NOV
  • Missile Strike on Europe Changes War
  • Russia Strikes Ukraine With Heaviest Missile Attack Since War’s Start
  • North Korea Launches More Missiles
  • What’s Going On in Kherson?
  • What the Nobel Peace Prize Means for Russia
OCT
  • Iran: The Number One State Sponsor of … Russia?
  • Real Hope for Belarus
  • Vladimir Putin—‘Evil on the Level of Joseph Stalin’
  • North Korea Is Officially a Nuclear State
SEPT
  • Russia Stages Referendums to Absorb Portions of Ukraine
  • Russia Sends Hundreds of Teachers to Occupied Ukraine to Wage Indoctrination Campaign
  • Putin Orders Partial Mobilization, Threatens Nuclear Strikes
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plans Closer Coordination
AUG
  • Russia Announces ‘Adoption’ of Ukrainian Children
  • Russia to Host Large-scale War Games With China and India
JULY
  • Russia Has Made Ukraine Region an ‘Abyss of Fear and Wild Lawlessness’
JUNE
  • A Nuclear Belarus—With Its Sights on Germany?
  • Nicaragua Invites Russian Military In
  • Will Belarus Invade Ukraine?
  • Russia’s War Causing Largest Movement of People in Such a Time Frame in History
MAY
  • Putin’s Useful Idiots
  • The End of ‘the End of History’
APR
  • Georgian Region to Officially Become Part of Russia?
MAR
  • Vladimir Putin’s War—on Russia
  • Ukraine War Drives Up Food Prices
  • Europe’s Dependence on Russian Gas
  • Flashback: Obama Disarms Ukraine
  • Gas Prices Push U.S. Toward Recession
  • Putin Can’t Afford to Lose in Ukraine
  • Ukraine Reveals America’s Broken Pride
FEB
  • Munich Security Conference Reveals No Hope in Man
  • Putin Sends Forces Into Ukraine After Recognizing Breakaway Regions
  • While the World Is Focused on Ukraine, Did Putin Take Belarus?
JAN
  • Russia Threatens the Caribbean
  • Taiwan Is China’s Ukraine
  • Who Is Behind Germany’s Betrayal of NATO?
  • Moscow Abolishes Russia’s Oldest Human Rights Organization
  • Building a Moscow-Berlin Axis
  • With Kazakhstan in Flames, Russia’s Moving In
2021
DEC
  • What Are Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin Up To?
  • Will Russia Ever Invade Ukraine?
NOV
  • Is Russia Orchestrating War in the Balkans?
SEPT
  • Soviet Reunion: Russia and Belarus Clear Path for Common State
AUG
  • Russia to Test ‘Flying Chernobyl’ Missile
  • Belarus Wages Migrant Warfare Against the EU
JULY
  • U.S. Drops Opposition to Nord Stream 2
  • Putin Shows That Russia Still Leads the Hypersonic Arms Race
JUNE
  • Russia Launches Giant New Submarine
  • Putin’s Russia Fires on British Warship?
  • Russia Defies UN, Supports Myanmar
  • Was the Biden-Putin Summit a Success?
  • Warning! You’ve Been Hacked!
  • Nord Stream 2 Is Ready to Pump Gas to Germany
MAY
  • Belarus Hijacks Plane, Kidnaps Journalist
  • EU Concerned by Russia’s ‘Integration’ of Ukraine
  • Russia Completes ‘Peacekeeping’ Bases in Former Soviet Union Territory
  • India Edges Nearer to Russia
APR
  • Putin Courts New Cuban Regime
  • How Putin and Xi Could Create a ‘Nightmare Scenario’ for the U.S. Military
  • Russia Threatens U.S. With ‘Doomsday’ Weapon
  • Russia Throws Its Weight Behind Myanmar Coup
  • Putin’s New Law Could Make Him Longest-Reigning Russian Ruler Since Peter the Great
  • Is Russia Going After More of Ukraine?
  • Russia Pulls Venezuela and Cuba Deeper Into Its Orbit
  • Russia Infiltrates Two European Defense Ministries
MAR
  • Russia Cyberattack on German Parliament Revealed
  • Russia Expands Military Power in Armenia
FEB
  • Russia Is Back in Tajikistan
JAN
  • Will Russian Protests Drive Putin From Power?
  • Russia’s Air Force Is Soaring Into the Future
  • Russia’s Avangard Missiles Ready for Launch in 2021
2020
DEC
  • Four Big Asia Stories of 2020
  • Russia Tests Third Antisatellite Missile This Year
  • SolarWinds Hack Underscores America’s Achilles’ Heel
  • The Union of Soviet Putinist Republics
  • Russia Continues Baltic Buildup
  • Russia’s Militarization of the Arctic Accelerates
  • Putin Accelerates Buildup of Russian Military Power
NOV
  • Russia’s Military ‘Dazzles’ With New Weapons
  • Nagorno-Karabakh Is Back in the USSR
  • Who Won the U.S. Election? Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
OCT
  • The World Lives in the ‘Shadow of Nuclear Catastrophe’
  • Has Putin’s Hour Come?
SEPT
  • In Multiple Theaters, Russia Unites West-Weary Powers to Practice War
AUG
  • The Poisoning of ‘the Man Vladimir Putin Fears Most’
JULY
  • Russia Carries Out Space-Based Antisatellite Weapons Test
  • Russian Control of U.S. Uranium Is a National Security Threat
  • Russia’s Security and Military Spending Soar, Despite Economic Woes
  • Will Russia and China Rule Space?
  • Putin Clinches 16 More Years at Russia’s Helm—Now What?
  • Vladimir Putin Showcases Military Might Ahead of Vote on Extending His Rule
JUNE
  • Vladimir Putin Affirms Russia’s Nuclear First-strike Policy
MAY
  • Russian Navy Bolsters Baltic Fleet With Cutting-edge Warships
MAR
  • It’s Time to Stop Calling Vladimir Putin ‘President’
FEB
  • Russia Tightens Grip on Arctic
  • Russia to Construct 10th Nuclear-Powered Boomer
  • Russia Threatens America’s East Coast
  • Russia Is Upgrading Its Nuclear Weapons
2019
DEC
  • Russia, China Open Tap on ‘Power of Siberia’ Pipeline
  • Soviet Reunion: Russia and Belarus Push Toward Common State
NOV
  • America’s Security Alliance With South Korea Is Crumbling
  • The ‘Disappearing’ Russian Submarine Threat
OCT
  • Sweden Returns Navy to Underground Cold War-Era Base
SEPT
  • Russia, China Cyberattack the U.S. and Australia
  • The Secret Motivation Behind North Korea’s Missile Tests
AUG
  • Russia’s ‘Creeping Occupation’ of Georgia Claims Another Village
  • Russia, Asian Partners to Hold Mass Military Drills
JULY
  • Vladimir Putin Has Crimea ‘Bristling With Missiles Like a Hedgehog’
  • Russians in the Caribbean
JUNE
  • Russia’s Crimea Now ‘Bristling With Missiles Like a Hedgehog’
  • Russia’s ‘Unstoppable’ Hypersonic Missiles
  • The Russia-India-China Trilateral
MAY
  • North Korea Launches Russian-Style Missiles
  • Putin Offers Eastern Ukrainians Russian Passports
APR
  • Russia Warns Ukraine and NATO of ‘Military Conflict’
  • Russian Icebreakers and the War for the Arctic
  • President Putin’s Electronic Shield
  • China and North Korea Open New Cross-Border Bridge
  • The Dangers of the Nord Stream Pipelines
MAR
  • Russia Deploys Nuclear-Capable Bombers to Crimea
  • Russia Sends Troops to Venezuela in Upset to Possible Intervention
  • New Russian Military Doctrine: Prepare for Large-scale War
  • How Russia Conquered Crimea: A Five-Year Retrospective
  • India Signs $3 Billion Nuclear Submarine Deal With Russia
  • Kim Jong-un to Visit Vladimir Putin in Russia
FEB
  • Russia Cyberattacks Norway
  • Russia to Absorb Belarus? ‘We’re Ready to Unite,’ Lukashenko Says
  • Russian Pressure on Georgia Intensifies
  • U.S. Intelligence Chief: Russia and China Are Biggest Threat
JAN
  • Upgraded Russian Bomber Takes First Flight
  • From President Putin, a Gift for Russians
2018
DEC
  • Poll: Two Thirds of Russians Miss the Soviet Union
  • Russia and China Threaten America With New Missiles
  • Russia Flies Nuclear-Capable Bombers Over Caribbean Sea
  • Russia Deploys More S-400 Missiles in Crimea
NOV
  • Russia and Vietnam Aim to Triple Trade by 2020
  • Russia Captures Ukrainian Naval Vessels in Major Escalation of Tensions
  • Russia Cyberattacks Finland During NATO War Games
  • Is Russia Reopening a Soviet Military Base in Cuba?
  • China and Russia: ‘We Are Preparing for War’
OCT
  • Putin’s Strategy to ‘Divide Europe Is Backfiring’
SEPT
  • India and Pakistan Participate in First SCO Military Drill
AUG
  • Russian Satellite May Have Potential to ‘Bring the World’s Economy to Its Knees’
  • Russia Shows Off Military Might Near Alaska
  • Ten Years After Russia Invaded Georgia, It Keeps Taking More Territory
  • Putin Creates Political Wing for Russian Army, in Chilling Echo of Soviet Era
JULY
  • Putin: Russian Army’s Modern Weapons Rate Nears 60 Percent
JUNE
  • Putin’s Invincible Nuke
  • Vladimir Putin: World War III Would Mark the ‘End of Civilization’
MAY
  • Crimean Bridge: A Metaphor for Vladimir Putin’s Reign
APR
  • Beware the Russian in Your Router
  • Russia Tests Europe’s Nerves in the Baltic Sea
  • Poland Signs Its Largest-Ever Weapons Deal
MAR
  • What Will Putin Do With Six More Years of Power?
  • Russia Selling China Advanced Weaponry
  • Did Russia Attack the U.S. in Syria?
  • Putin Boasts of ‘Invincible’ New Nuclear Weapons
FEB
  • Russia’s Nuclear Weapons Deep in Europe ‘Should Hardly Be Cause for Concern’
  • Pentagon: Russia and China Capable of Destroying U.S. Satellites by 2020
JAN
  • Sweden Is Instructing Its Civilians on How to Prepare for Total War
  • Doomsday Clock Ticks Ahead: Two Minutes to Midnight
  • Putin Says Communist Ideas Come From the Bible—Is He Right?
  • Vladimir Putin to Use 2018 World Cup to Score His Own Goals
  • Russian Warships Enter British Waters
  • Weapon Proliferation in Eastern Europe
2017
DEC
  • Russia Dominating Middle East and Mediterranean
  • Russia to Build Full-fledged Naval Base in Syria
  • Putin Celebrates Victory in Syria
  • Russia, China Secretly Support North Korea
  • North Korea Getting Nuclear Weapons Help From Russia, China, Iran
  • Russian Companies Prepare for War
  • Russian Orthodox Patriarch Warns of End-time Apocalypse
  • Welcome to the Disinformation Age!
NOV
  • Russia and Iran Sign $30 Billion Energy Deals
  • Iran Urges Russia to Ditch U.S. Dollar
  • Russian Ships in Manila Signal Shifting Alliances
  • Russia’s War on America
OCT
  • Russian Twitter Campaign Seeks to Divide America
SEPT
  • Does Bible Prophecy Say North Korea Could Trigger World War III?
  • The REAL Russia Scandal
  • Is Russia About to Invade Belarus?
AUG
  • Resurrection of the First Guards Tank Army
  • As North Korea Becomes More Dangerous, Russia Boosts Its Support
JULY
  • Russia Quietly Takes Another Slice of Georgia’s Territory
JUNE
  • Why Is Russia Buying So Much Gold?
MAY
  • Rodrigo Duterte Is Sick of America’s Moral Interventions
  • The Australian Diet of Avocados and Ignorance
APR
  • Putin Resurrects Russian Revisionism
MAR
  • Russia Assimilates Armed Forces of Georgian Breakaway Region
  • Russian Force Deployed to Libya-Egypt Border
  • Leaders of Luhansk, Ukraine, Change Their Official Currency to the Russian Ruble
  • Who Will Defend Eastern Europe?
  • Should Donald Trump Trust Vladimir Putin?
  • Russia’s Middle East Invasion
FEB
  • Russia’s Deadly Plot to Keep Montenegro From Joining NATO
  • Russia Worries Europe—and Fulfills Bible Prophecy
  • Russia’s Putin Provoking West, Testing Mr. Trump
  • Will Russia Squeeze Syria Out of the Iranian Orbit, Fulfilling Biblical Prophecy?
  • Russia and China: Developing Meaner Weapons of War, and More Will to Use Them
  • What Russia Wants in Afghanistan
  • Putin’s Power Play for Libya
  • Russia’s Military Push Into the Arctic Approaching Soviet-era Levels
  • Eastern Europe Trembles as Russia Marches in Ukraine
JAN
  • Vladimir Putin: Friend or Foe?
  • What Donald Trump Means for Asia
2016
DEC
  • The Prophesied Prince of Russia
  • The Collapse of the Soviet Union and No More Delay
SEPT
  • Vladimir Putin’s Moral Fortress
AUG
  • Russia’s Rise, the Ayatollah’s Big Victory and China’s First Military Outpost
JULY
  • Russia Sends Largest Warship to Syria
JUNE
  • Russia Humiliates America, Again
  • Russia’s Plan to Destroy American Prestige, and China’s Plan to Remake the World
APR
  • More Than Half of Russians Want the Soviet Union Resurrected
  • The Kremlin Cracks Down on Religious Liberty
MAR
  • Putin’s Approval Ratings Fall Back to ‘Pre-Crimea’ Level
JAN
  • New Book of Putin Quotes Echoes History’s Darkest Dictators
  • How the World Changed in 2015 in Asia
  • Fear This Man
2015
NOV
  • Why Won’t President Obama Let the Pentagon Stand Up to Russia and China?
  • North Korean Government Earning Billions by Forcing Citizens Into Slave Labor Abroad
  • Russia Outmaneuvers the United States in Syria
OCT
  • Putin Isn’t ‘Bad,’ He’s Evil, Vile, Terrifying …
JAN
  • The Russia-China Axis Is Here
2014
MAR
  • The Ukraine Crisis Was Prophesied!
JAN
  • Czars and Emperors
2012
JAN
  • How to Win an Election in Russia
2011
JULY
  • The Origins of Modern Russia
2010
AUG
  • How to Be Popular in Europe
MAR
  • How Russia Is About to Change the World
FEB
  • Rising in the East
2006
APR
  • The Empire Strikes Back
JAN
  • Signs of the Times
2004
JAN
  • Czar Putin?
  • Return to Totalitarianism
  • Russia Frightens Europe—and Fulfills Bible Prophecy
2003
JAN
  • 2002: The Real Stories
2002
JAN
  • March Toward Armageddon
2001
JULY
  • Asia’s Power Game
JUNE
  • Is Russia Finished?
2000
JULY
  • Left or Right for the East?
JUNE
  • Caucasus Diplomacy
MAR
  • Meeting Russia head on
1999
DEC
  • Religion’s Clash of the Century
NOV
  • The Bear’s Headache
MAY
  • Back Like a Bear
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