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EU leaders may cheat Trump by walking back their pledge to ramp up defense spending - Shoigu

11:57 17.07.2025

EU leaders may cheat Trump by walking back their pledge to ramp up defense spending - Shoigu

In an interview with the newspaper Kommersant, Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that the authorities of European countries may deceive US President Donald Trump and fail to fulfill their obligations to increase defense spending. “It is no coincidence that the initial figures of the new defense budget will …

Will Trump distance himself from Ukrainian conflict?

11:58 11.06.2025 Alexander Gusev

Will Trump distance himself from Ukrainian conflict?

According to The New York Times (NYT), US President Donald Trump has decided to back down from his earlier commitments to end the conflict in Ukraine. Many experts with close links to the White House see this as a sign of Trump demonstrating his intention to distance himself from the …

Not just gas – will Europe have enough water?

11:41 14.01.2025 Andrey Kadomtsev

Not just gas – will Europe have enough water?

According to media reports, the new EU Commissioner for the Environment, Jessika Roswall from Sweden, stated that the European Union needs to “urgently address the problem of water scarcity…”.Water is indispensable; access to it is literally crucial for human survival and for agriculture. Water is a vital component in electric …

Europe and security guarantees for Ukraine

11:46 20.12.2024 Alexander Gusev

Europe and security guarantees for Ukraine

Despite the fact that during the July 2024 NATO summit in Washington, 23 member countries and Japan, which joined them, decided to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, in Europe itself, active discussions on this issue continue unabated. I think that each time a firecracker explodes during the pre-Christmas week, ordinary …

Beware of American “help”, or how the US undermined European energy security

11:52 13.05.2024 Andrey Kadomtsev

Beware of American “help”, or how the US undermined European energy security

According to a Bloomberg report, despite the “record” volumes of gas in European storage facilities, energy experts there are in no rush to breathe a sigh of relief as traders worry about “possible fuel shortages next winter.” One of the important reasons for the decline in the energy security of …

Poland’s geopolitical ambitions are a threat to Europe

10:14 22.12.2022 Vladislav Gulevich

Poland’s geopolitical ambitions are a threat to Europe

Poland has been participating in the bloody events in Ukraine from the very start with Warsaw providing financial and organizational support for the 2014 constitutional coup in Kyiv. The artificial ramping up of tensions in the region, skillfully stoked up by Washington is in Poland’s best interest, turning the country …

Russia is a part of Europe, which never became a part of Russia

12:24 22.01.2021 Armen Oganesyan

Russia is a part of Europe, which never became a part of Russia

The process of the new European integration coincided in time with the intensification of the process of globalization, which has stimulated and inspired the formation of the European Union. Presently, debates about the crisis of globalization are going almost simultaneously with discussions about the crisis of European integration. The European …

Ivan Timofeev: sanctions are imposed on the basis of a certain opinion

11:30 20.10.2020 Elizaveta Antonova

Ivan Timofeev: sanctions are imposed on the basis of a certain opinion

EU foreign ministers have reached consensus on imposing sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of Aleksey Navalny. A decision to this effect was passed by 27 foreign ministers of the EU. According to Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, the EU has got down to work to prepare a sanctions list. …

2020 US presidential election: what can the world expect?

10:29 26.08.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

2020 US presidential election: what can the world expect?

The presidential campaign in the United States is unfolding amid a weakening of America's position in the world and this is what many commentators both in and outside the US now focus on. How is this situation seen by the two main contenders for the White House? What do their …

The Crises of Europe

11:05 25.08.2020 Enes Bayraklı

The Crises of Europe

After the end of the Cold War, the US established itself as sole the global player. Together with the US, NATO also expanded its power, even though it had to set itself new goals with the fall of the Soviet Union. Over the years, the EU also expanded alongside NATO …

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