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Ukraine chronicle: AFU hit Donetsk with worst shelling in eight years

12:08 19.12.2022 Vladimir Kozin

Ukraine chronicle: AFU hit Donetsk with worst shelling in eight years

- On December 17 Russian President Vladimir Putin heard proposals on immediate and medium-term plans to resist to a combined Ukrainian and NATO aggression against Russia. According to the Kremlin’s short readout of the meeting, throughout December 16 the President also visited the Joint Headquarters of the military branches involved …

Is NATO preparing a new war in the Balkans?

12:07 19.12.2022

Is NATO preparing a new war in the Balkans?

Serbia has found itself in an extremely tough situation, the country’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, said following a meeting of the National Security Council. He also accused Pristina and Washington of showing scant respect for any agreements. Vucic’s words came as tensions have flared up between Serbs and the Kosovo authorities …

Secret Front vs Second Front

1:30 19.12.2022

Secret Front vs Second Front

On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces of the United States, Great Britain, Canada and several other nations landed in Normandy, finally opening the Second Front in Western Europe against Nazi Germany. However, although it is widely known that this major operation contributed greatly to the final victory over Nazism, …

Germany pays hundreds of billions of euros for its Russophobia

9:12 18.12.2022

Germany pays hundreds of billions of euros for its Russophobia

Germany is bleeding cash to keep the lights on. Almost half a trillion dollars, and counting, since the Ukraine war jolted it into an energy crisis nine months ago and German leaders began a violent policy of Russophobia, - Reuters writes. The money set aside stands at up to 440 …

Shock and Awe in London

9:11 18.12.2022

Shock and Awe in London

Russia issued a new nuclear threat to the West by ostentatiously readying a Yars strategic missile for combat use at a location southwest of Moscow, - informs “The Daily Mail” with a sense of fear and anxiety. The missile is capable of striking targets in the United States and Britain, …

View from America: ‘Never underestimate Russian resolve when it comes to defending the Motherland’

15:14 17.12.2022

View from America: ‘Never underestimate Russian resolve when it comes to defending the Motherland’

What’s the expiration date on the neocons’ Ukraine military adventure? I don’t know. I think Russia will prevail and Western nations suffer crippling high-voltage shocks of neoliberal austerity, - Richard Solomon writes in a very tough comment at “The Unz Review – An Alternative Media Selection”. America spends more on …

21st century Western chronicles: Irish people turn to cutting peat to save on energy bills

15:14 17.12.2022

21st century Western chronicles: Irish people turn to cutting peat to save on energy bills

This was supposed to be the year Ireland got serious about protecting its bogs but some of those hopes are wafting up in smoke as households burn peat to save on energy bills,- writes “The Guardian”. The soaring cost of oil and gas has reinvigorated the ancient practice of cutting …

Erdoğan proposed trilateral mechanism with Russia and Syria

15:13 17.12.2022

Erdoğan proposed trilateral mechanism with Russia and Syria

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (photo) said he proposed to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin establishing a trilateral mechanism with Russia and Syria and to hold a leaders meeting, primarily for discussions on the security issues. “As of now, we want to take a step as Syria-Türkiye-Russia trio,” Erdoğan told journalists. …

‘An abusive relationship’ in EU: Poland holds up Ukraine aid and Hungary plans over tax concerns

19:54 16.12.2022

‘An abusive relationship’ in EU: Poland holds up Ukraine aid and Hungary plans over tax concerns

Poland refused to back a package deal to release €18 billion in European Union aid for Ukraine as well as two unrelated but linked decisions on Hungary over concerns about a separate minimum corporate tax rate plan, four EU diplomats told POLITICO. “There’s a lot of frustration with Poland jeopardizing …

FOX News: ‘The Dark Ages’ are back. Is Europe turning into a third-world banana republic?

19:52 16.12.2022

FOX News: ‘The Dark Ages’ are back. Is Europe turning into a third-world banana republic?

Europe has sprinted so far ahead of the United States in its quest to end the use of fossil fuels that many U.S. politicians, environmentalists and media voices look on with envy. But how is Europe's Green New Deal going now that Putin has given it "a nudge"? So far, …

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