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Monday, March 6th, 2023
By John J. Metzler - LONDON—In the anxious countdown to the Coronation of King Charles
III, the United Kingdom is shadowed by a raft of economic and political woes ranging from the soaring cost of living to an uneasy nervousness of what’s next in the Ukraine war. Though bracing through the gloomy and cold weather, amid rising food [...]
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
By Amos Chapple (RFE) – Mystery fires that have broken out across Russia in recent months have been blamed on Ukrainian saboteurs and even Western intelligence operatives. But a new documentary by British filmmaker Jake Hanrahan suggests a “large-scale, active resistance inside Russia” is now being waged by Russia’s own citizens.
“There’s this thing like, ‘Well, it must be the [...]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
By James Elder (UNICEF) Lviv – Ukraine – “The past year has been one of violence, fear and loss for the children of Ukraine. There is not a single aspect of children’s lives that the war has not been impacted, with children killed, injured, forced from their homes, and missing out on critical education.
Amid the death [...]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
By Karamba Diaby* BERLIN (IDN) — In Senegal, over 70 per cent of the population still has no access to electricity. This is one of the reasons why the country wants to begin the exploitation of offshore oil and gas fields by the end of 2023. Following his visit to Senegal at the end of May [...]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
By Sabine Kinkartz (DW) Berlin - Pressure is growing on Germany to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine. Chancellor Scholz doesn’t want to commit just yet, partly because he’s playing to his party, the Social Democrats.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will not be swayed. When it comes to supplying heavy battle tanks to Ukraine, he likes to point to the [...]
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Friday, January 20th, 2023
WebPublicaPress – New York – Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Denis Bećirović, member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to NATO Headquarters on Monday (16 January 2023). Mr. Stoltenberg stressed that the stability of the whole region of the Western Balkans is of strategic importance to the Alliance, as mentioned in the Strategic [...]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2023
By Andrey Ghurkov – It would be premature to talk about Russian military defeat in Ukraine. But Vladimir Putin has lost the gas war against Germany — that much can already be said for certain. Germany has the largest natural gas storage capacities in the whole of the EU. And if these are still more than [...]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2023
By Michael Marder and Victoria Gasteiz - With Russia’s economy crumbling under the weight of Western sanctions, some of the country’s leading economists are advocating a return to Soviet-style central planning. Will the violent wave of expropriation Russia has unleashed on Ukraine be unleashed at home as well?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long regarded the collapse of the [...]
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Sunday, September 4th, 2022
Viewpoint by John P. Ruehl - This article was produced by Globetrotter. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to several other foreign affairs publications. He is currently finishing a book on Russia to be published in 2022.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) — On [...]
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
By David L. Phillips - President Biden said of Vladimir Putin, “This man cannot stay in power.” The comment was clumsy — yet correct. Russia will remain a pariah until Mr. Putin is removed as president.
US officials have tried to walk back Mr. Biden’s comment. They fear antagonizing Mr. Putin and undermining negotiations to end the war. In fact, their efforts have the unintended consequence of [...]
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