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Global climate change

12:32 29.05.2019 Yanina Korotkova

Global climate change

Saudi Arabia calls emergency Arab League summit

7:20 29.05.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

Saudi Arabia calls emergency Arab League summit

Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has invited leaders of the League of Arab States (LAS) to an emergency summit in Mecca, scheduled for May 30, to discuss the security situation in the region.Although Arab League summits are normally held once a year in March, in the case of …

Montenegrin hybrid war against Russia

11:27 28.05.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Montenegrin hybrid war against Russia

The High Court in Podgorica sentenced a group of 14 people on May 9 on terrorism charges and creating a criminal organization as part of an October 2016 attempt to overthrow the government and scupper the country’s NATO membership bid. The court found that the group of Serbs, Russians and …

Orthodox Church of Ukraine: running into problems or being a problem?

1:22 27.05.2019 Mikhail Leonov

Orthodox Church of Ukraine: running into problems or being a problem?

On May 15th the “honorary patriarch” of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Filaret Denysenko held a press conference in his residence on Pushkinskaya Street in Kiev. Fully aware of the public interest in his vision of the relationship between his Kiev “Patriarchate” (the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate) …

European Parliament Elections – the moment of truth?

11:29 24.05.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

European Parliament Elections – the moment of truth?

With voters from the 28 EU member states casting ballots on May 23-26 to elect their representatives for the European Parliament, political forces across the bloc have been pitching their programs to the public and trading mutual accusations. Voting begins on Thursday, starting with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, …

LIVE: Venezuela's Ambassador to Russia gives press briefing in Moscow

12:31 22.05.2019

LIVE: Venezuela's Ambassador to Russia gives press briefing in Moscow

US strives to supply Europe with its own gas

11:05 22.05.2019 Pyotr Iskenderov

US strives to supply Europe with its own gas

American Congressmen continue to exert every effort to thwart the completion of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, which is designed to secure a long-lasting supply of Europe with Russian gas. A parliamentary bill devised by the US Senate to toughen anti-Russian sanctions envisages measures against European companies and their production …

Indo-Pacific region and elections in New Caledonia

11:16 21.05.2019 Vladislav Gulevich

Indo-Pacific region and elections in New Caledonia

The results of the May 12, 2019 parliamentary elections in New Caledonia reflect a lingering political split in this French territory, comprising dozens of islands in the South Pacific. French loyalists won 28 seats in the 54-strong local legislature, just two seats more than the advocates of the region’s greater …

Iran vs. US: bracing for war? (an analysis of current events and their possible consequences)

10:26 20.05.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

Iran vs. US: bracing for war? (an analysis of current events and their possible consequences)

On May 8, 2018, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal, and imposed tough unilateral sanctions on Tehran. Exactly a year later, this move looks dangerously fraught with unpredictable and potentially catastrophic consequences for the …

The russian language in the world. Facts and figures

12:10 17.05.2019 Yanina Korotkova

The russian language in the world. Facts and figures

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