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Ankara “goes at” Cyprus again

15:09 11.08.2021 Andrey Isayev

Ankara “goes at” Cyprus again

On July 20 a parade was held in Lefkoşa, the capital of the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which marked the anniversary of the landing of Turkish troops in Cyprus (1974). The parade in Lefkoşa (Nicosia in Turkish) was attended by a number of high-level officials who made …

International Community Has Become Closer to “Cybercrime Vaccine”

19:20 06.08.2021

International Community Has Become Closer to “Cybercrime Vaccine”

Unofficial translationThe COVID-19 pandemic has made humankind dive into the virtual space and digitalise economic and everyday life. Crime, having dynamically adapted to the modern context, has rushed to take advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Fishing, ransomware, DDoS attacks and cyberattacks have often been covered by the media …

Past century revisited

13:02 04.08.2021 Dr J Scott Younger

Past century revisited

It is 100 years since we were supposedly getting over the war to end all wars, World War I, and forming the League of Nations with the purpose of preventing such a conflict and slaughter happening again. Regrettably, the only good that came out of it was the proposal to …

International Criminal Court and thousands of ignored complaints

13:40 02.08.2021 Fedor Zima

International Criminal Court and thousands of ignored complaints

The civil war in Donbass has been going on for more than seven years now. It broke out in 2014, following Kiev’s decision to launch a military operation against the local militia in Donbass, who did not accept the Maidan coup that had happened in February of that same year. …

Democracy and Human Rights as Basis for Lasting Peace

13:24 28.07.2021 Isabella Maria Bello Arocha

Democracy and Human Rights as Basis for Lasting Peace

(says former Prime Minister of Norway, H.E. Kjell Magne Bondevik)On May 25th, as part of the Geneva Lecture Series concepted and conducted by prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic, a large number of international affairs specialists, faculty fellows, practitioners and diplomats gathered for a special session devoted to Democracy and Human Rights. …

Afghanistan: No Peace without a Clear Vision

12:58 22.07.2021 M. Djawed Sangdel

Afghanistan: No Peace without a Clear Vision

Peace is the absence of war, while war is the absence of peace! A negotiated peace in Afghanistan presents a number of challenges. The duration of the war over several decades has created a number of situations, that requires an in-depth examination in light of the peace negotiations that took …

Ukrainian law on indigenous people, or how to destroy your own state

14:12 21.07.2021 Denis Baturin

Ukrainian law on indigenous people, or how to destroy your own state

To begin with,the draft law on indigenous people, the first reading of which was approved by Ukraine’s Parliament, runs counter to the country’s Constitution. The bill breaches Article 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which enshrines the rights of Russian language and Russians as an ethnic group, while the deputies’ …

Afghan deja vu?

12:27 20.07.2021 Tomislav Jakić

Afghan deja vu?

As the date of complete withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan nears, more and more often we hear comments in which this withdrawal is compared with (literally) the escape of US military forces from the South Yietnam in the seventies of the last century . Even more, as the Taliban, …

The Nuclear future of East Asia

12:02 19.07.2021 Sze-Fung Lee

The Nuclear future of East Asia

In the face of North Korea and China’s continuous expansion and advancement in their nuclear arsenal in the past decade, the nuclear question for East Asian countries is now more urgent than ever—especially when U.S.’s credibility of extended deterrence has been shrinking since the post-cold war era. Whether to acquire …

Why is the “Deep State” arming the terrorists?

13:03 16.07.2021 Alexander Sheffner

Why is the “Deep State” arming the terrorists?

Just a few months since Joe Biden's election, America’s idea of terrorism has radically changed with the media having spared no effort making people believe that the real terrorists are indeed the armed supporters of the Republicans, who are ready to take on the crowd of BLM "looters" and express …

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