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Perhaps ironically, one of the most famous 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse paintings is by a Russian:
- Pestilence (on a White Horse -> COVID !?)
- War (on a Red Horse -> PUTIN !?)
- Famine (on a Black Horse -> HYPERINFLATION !?)
- Death (on a Pale Horse -> TOO LATE !?)
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Moldova’s political news cycle this week was dominated by comments from President Maia Sandu about how she would vote in a hypothetical referendum on unification with Romania. Meduza explains the context behind Sandu’s comments, how Moldovan and Romanian politicians have responded, and whether her statement is likely to have concrete political consequences.
In August 2025, a Russian court in Sevastopol sentenced 42-year-old Viktoria Strilets and her 24-year-old daughter, Alexandra, to 12 years in prison on charges of high treason. The case is classified, and little is known about its details. According to available records, the women allegedly sent photographs of Russian military installations to a Telegram channel linked to Ukraine’s military intelligence agency. The independent outlet Mediazona, drawing on letters shared by the family, has reconstructed the women’s story. Alexandra is the mother of two, including a premature infant who was in intensive care during the trial. Despite the baby’s reliance on a ventilator, the court denied a request to defer Alexandra’s sentence until the girl reaches the age of 14, citing no grounds for such leniency. Meduza summarizes the key points from Mediazona’s report.
Russia’s biggest musical success of 2025 wasn’t Shaman, the hawkish Kremlin-backed pop singer, or Instasamka, the blogger-turned-rapper who built hits around conspicuous consumption and controversy before turning pro-war herself. Instead, the artist listeners embraced most was quieter and almost a throwback: Vanya Dmitrienko, a 20-year-old singer-songwriter who doesn’t just ignore the full-scale war in Ukraine, but seems to channel the immediate pre-war era. Meduza traces Dmitrienko’s rise, his retreat from the spotlight amid Moscow’s TikTok restrictions, and his return last year with a new, more mature image and sound.
On the night of January 8, Russian forces carried out a massive strike on Kyiv, knocking out a significant portion of the city’s heating, power, and water supplies. The following day, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that nearly half of the city’s apartment buildings — about 6,000 in total — had been left without heat, and urged residents to leave the city if possible.
Russia is once again watching one of its allies slide into crisis. Over the past several weeks, mass anti-government protests have erupted across Iran, in what many experts describe as the most serious challenge yet to the Islamic Republic. The Iranian authorities have responded by cutting off Internet access and launching a violent crackdown that has left thousands — possibly tens of thousands — of protesters dead. Even so, Moscow’s public reaction has been muted. Russian officials have largely stuck to familiar talking points, blaming the unrest on “external provocation” and suggesting it will soon fade. To better understand what the Kremlin is prepared to do for Tehran and what it stands to lose, Meduza spoke with Nicole Grajewski, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
2026.01.14
Kodiak Copper (TSXV:KDK, OTCQB:KDKCF, Frankfurt:5DD1) had a phenomenal 2025, releasing a maiden mineral resource estimate on its MPD property in south-central British Columbia, and the share price up 205% over the last year.
Kodiak Copper doesn’t feel the need to drill in the dead of winter. But that doesn’t mean it’s sitting idle, far from it. In it’s ‘off-season’, the company has been assembling its drill data and other information from last summer and planning its 2026 program.
The world needs more copper.
Along with all the usual applications for copper, in construction, transportation and telecommunications demand is being driven by on-going electrification and decarbonization of the transportation system and the exponential growth in battery storage.
Copper is not only vital to the applications listed above but to artificial intelligence and the infrastructure that supports AI. Copper is used in computer chips, EVs, and in the reams of wiring required by data centers, and of course in power transmission to all the new data centers.
Continue reading Under the Spotlight – copper in ’26 at Ahead of the Herd.
2026.01.12
On July 24 Harvest Gold announced they identified 23 priority drill targets in the central and north parts of its flagship property, Mosseau, located in the Urban Barry Belt of Quebec’s Abitibi region.
The company has now completed 21 diamond drill holes totaling 4,692 meters. Drilling targeted the northern and central areas of the property.
This week HVG announced the second and final series of assay results from the northern area of its it’s maiden drill program at Mosseau.
2026.01.09
Silver North (TSXV:SNAG, OTCQB:TARSF) completed its 2025 drill program in mid-November at its flagship Haldane Project, located within the historical Keno Hill Silver District in the Yukon territory.
The road-accessible, 8,579-hectare Haldane property is 25 km west of Keno City, YT, adjacent to Hecla Mining’s producing Keno Hill silver mine. Haldane hosts several occurrences of silver-lead-zinc-bearing quartz siderite veins resembling the veins being mined at Keno Hill.
Silver North offers investors exposure to one of the most prolific silver districts in Canada and the world — Keno Hill — which is seeing major investment from Hecla Mining, the largest silver producer in the United States, following Hecla’s 2022 takeover of Alexco Resources.
2026.01.09
Cassiar Gold (TSXV:GLDC, OTCQX:CGLCF) recently announced results from nine initial diamond drill holes of the 2025 exploration program at the Taurus deposit. According to Cassiar, the results expand mineralization near surface and beyond the extent of the current resource block model.
The 2025 drill program comprised 7,308 meters over 20 drill holes and concluded in early October.
Results are pending for 5,243m of drilling over 11 drill holes from the Newcoast prospect which lies 2 kilometers to the south.
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Pulled conclusions from pooled data compilations
Using some of the world’s largest companies by market cap & some of the most quoted indices + two most sung alternatives: data for this millennia where available
- At 134x, Apple is the absolute stock price growth winner; with Amazon at 45x and Google at 32x
- Despite the lack of interest or dividends, gold at 6.6x looks good compared to any other stock or index!
- Barrick Gold on the other hand seems to be poorly correlated to anything including the gold metal itself!?
- But Barrick is the only stock producing negative correlations with most of the indices including a relatively high -0.77 with the Euronext100 index
- If one wast trying to get something totally uncorrelated on purpose- it would be hard to beat: gold and the Euronext100 index at -0.03; or Barrick and the Hang Seng index at 0.04; or gold and Merck at 0.16; or BTC and the FTSE index at 0.19
- Correlation against a basket of indices & alternatives is best in Disney and Google (0.81-0.82), albeit at different growth multiples
- If an average historical P/E is somewhere in the 20x range, then the current S&P quoted average which is in high 30s is as warned high, BUT: only Amazon and Visa seem to be widely out of range (justified by growth in online transactions?), with many below current & historical averages
- In the current world of no interest & no inflation, maybe the higher P/E averages are justified..? For how long, that is a different question…
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