Analytics and examination on international affairs and security issues are experiencing troubled times in Russia. The official position is becoming more and more obscene, and often simply obscurantist (we recall at least the famous Putin's reasoning that as a result of the exchange of nuclear strikes, the Russians are guaranteed to go to heaven).

Assange was placed in the Belmarsh prison in the southeast of London, equipped for the maintenance of especially dangerous criminals. AP Photo/Alastair Grant/TASS The Ecuador issued Great Britain the creator of Wikileaks Julian Assange, who was hiding at the embassy of this state in London since 2012, having received political asylum. Its extradition, as you know, is seeking Sweden, where he is accused of a sexual crime.