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Russian army lends a helping hand to Italy

9:55 26.03.2020 Alexander Sheffner

Russian army lends a helping hand to Italy

For the past three days, Russian military transport planes with medical specialists and aid on board have been landing at an air base near Rome to help Italy in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Critics immediately started looking for some ulterior motives behind Moscow’s move, describing it as just …

Crimea: Italian MP Vito Comencini remembers Italian deportation victims

13:15 08.02.2019 Eliseo Bertolasi

Crimea: Italian MP Vito Comencini remembers Italian deportation victims

On January 29, 1942, an estimated 2,000 Italians resident in Kerch were ordered out of their homes and sent out to Kazakhstan in what essentially was an ethnic deportation authorized by Josef Stalin in retribution for the Italian military joining the German invasion of the Soviet Union.Kerch was occupied by …

Italy making its way back to Africa

12:34 06.02.2019 Vladislav Gulevich

Italy making its way back to Africa

The countries of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia) have recently been the focus of attention of Italian diplomacy, with the need to find political partners in Africa to resolve the migrant crisis, the signing of a long-awaited peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 2018, China’s …

Italy vs France: war of elites over “yellow vests” and Libya

11:19 28.01.2019 Dmitry Babich

Italy vs France: war of elites over “yellow vests” and Libya

The disputes, which regularly flare up between the current governments of France and Italy are important for Russia, since the ideological rift between President Emmanuel Macron and the ruling Italian coalition of Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio has, among other things, have direct bearing on this country. However, there …

Libya: Blind alleys of political settlement

11:55 26.12.2018 Viktor Goncharov

Libya: Blind alleys of political settlement

An international conference on Libya, mediated by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte that was recently held in Palermo, Sicily, was looking for ways to reconcile the rival centers of power and generally stabilize the situation in the long-troubled North African nation. One of these main power centers is the Government …

Italy steps up political activities in the Mediterranean

15:14 13.12.2018 Vladislav Gulevich

Italy steps up political activities in the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean serves as a platform for Rome’s geopolitical efforts in the region which are aimed at creating a powerful configuration of strength that would leave the three main vectors of Italy’s foreign policy – the southern (directed at North Africa), the western (directed at the Atlantic) and the eastern …

“Non/Fictio№” Celebrates its 20th Anniversary in “Italian Style”

12:29 29.11.2018 Elena Rubinova

“Non/Fictio№” Celebrates its 20th Anniversary in “Italian Style”

“Non/Fictio№”, officially calledthe International Book Fair for High-Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction, which marks its 20th anniversary, kicked off in Moscow’s Central House of Artists. Five-day book marathon is held from 28 November through 2 December 2018 under the patronage of the Federal Agency for Publishing and Mass Communications. Traditionally the …

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