Events, Facts, Comments - International Affairs

MAIN PAGE > Rubrics > Events, Facts, Comments

Sergey Lavrov: There are no bilateral contacts that would be indicative of preparations for a meeting between President Putin and Donald Trump

19:44 16.01.2025

Sergey Lavrov: There are no bilateral contacts that would be indicative of preparations for a meeting between President Putin and Donald Trump

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from Moscow. Kremlin. Putin television programme. Moscow, January 16, 2025. Question: Did you closely follow the remarks made by future US Secretary of State yesterday? Does anything in what he had to say about the Ukraine crisis and ways to resolve it stand …

Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev: Russia will not give Donbass and Novorossiya to anyone and Ukraine may cease to exist in 2025

11:42 16.01.2025

Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev: Russia will not give Donbass and Novorossiya to anyone and Ukraine may cease to exist in 2025

The status of Donbass and Novorossiya cannot be discussed – these territories became part of Russia by the will of their inhabitants, Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev said in an interview with KP.RU, TASS quotes. "This is not even up for discussion," he said, commenting on the words of some …

View from USA: Could a Ukrainian pipeline attack thrust Europe into a gas war?

11:41 16.01.2025

View from USA: Could a Ukrainian pipeline attack thrust Europe into a gas war?

Energy insecurity in Europe is growing again as winter comes and as war sees no end, writes ‘The Responsible Statecraft’. As war in Ukraine intensifies, so is an increasingly tenuous fight over energy security in the region. Russia has now accused Ukraine of attacking infrastructure belonging to the TurkStream natural …

“Secretary of Genocide”: Blinken speech interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters

11:40 16.01.2025

“Secretary of Genocide”: Blinken speech interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was giving a speech on the Middle East on Tuesday when he was interrupted by protesters condemning the outgoing official’s role in enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In an address at the Atlantic Council, a NATO military think tank, Blinken was offering a view of …

Trump's Greenland plan: US House Republicans seek support for bill on possible purchase

11:39 16.01.2025

Trump's Greenland plan: US House Republicans seek support for bill on possible purchase

President-elect Donald Trump's Republican allies in the U.S. House of Representatives are trying to build support for a bill on authorizing talks for the purchase of Greenland, according to a copy of the bill circulated for co-sponsors, Reuters reports. The bill is called "Make Greenland Great Again Act," the offices …

Biden's administration leaves with the stigma of being thieves

11:55 15.01.2025

Biden's administration leaves with the stigma of being thieves

With just days left before handing over the keys to the US government, the Biden administration is making a last-ditch effort to seize hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian assets as future negotiating leverage for Ukraine, according to two senior administration officials, CNN reports. This is pure theft. Top …

View from London: “Ukraine isn’t the centre of the Universe”

11:54 15.01.2025

View from London: “Ukraine isn’t the centre of the Universe”

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is no doubt being greeted with alarm in much of Europe. The incoming president has a long track record of viewing the continent as an economic rival, and his eagerness to end the war in Ukraine diplomatically remains controversial in European capitals, notes …

The dilemma for Europe is to fight and die or learn Russian and trade with Russia

11:53 15.01.2025

The dilemma for Europe is to fight and die or learn Russian and trade with Russia

Instead of negotiating and trading with their neighbor Russia, they in Brussels want to fight and die in a war against Russia. Do Europeans really want it? West told to either learn the ‘Russian language’ or raise defence spending. The NATO chief Mark Rutte has told member states to raise …

View from Washington: Europe could face an economic nightmare – Ukraine attacks TurkStream pipeline

11:51 15.01.2025

View from Washington: Europe could face an economic nightmare – Ukraine attacks TurkStream pipeline

Europe could face an economic nightmare – cutting off gas deliveries and attacking pipelines that feed Europe could send Europe into a death spiral, writes Stephen Bryen, is a former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. The Ukrainians sent nine drones to attack a natural gas compressor station in the …

European imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia at ‘record levels’

11:39 14.01.2025

European imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia at ‘record levels’

Rystad Energy releases data days after Ukraine stopped flows of Russian gas through its pipelines, ‘The Guardian’ writes. Europe bought a record amount of liquefied natural gas from Russia last year, data shows, despite EU efforts to ditch the fossil fuels funding Putin’s war chest. Ships carrying 17.8m tonnes of …

« first previous Page 114 of 542. next last »