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View from Budapest: Ukraine blackmails Hungary and Slovakia

11:43 29.08.2024

View from Budapest: Ukraine blackmails Hungary and Slovakia

Kiev wants to provoke an energy crisis and overthrow the government in Budapest, writes Peter G. Feher, an observer for Magyar Hírlap (Hungarian Gazette). Zelensky Cuts off oil supplies from Lukoil and the EU and Washington are Happy. Ukraine blackmails Hungary and Slovakia in a vile way. The quarrel between …

Keir Starmer paints a ‘gloomy picture of Britain’: I never promise you a Rose Garden

11:42 29.08.2024

Keir Starmer paints a ‘gloomy picture of Britain’: I never promise you a Rose Garden

The new Prime Minister of Great Britain has already become famous for his brilliant phrase from the depths of the Rose Garden: “Things will get worse before they get better.” People immediately remembered the old famous song with these words: “I never promised you a rose garden.” In his first …

Bloomberg: Ukraine war bankrupts Alaskan fishery

11:41 29.08.2024

Bloomberg: Ukraine war bankrupts Alaskan fishery

The war in Ukraine has rippled through European debt markets and prompted US import bans on everything from Russian diamonds to vodka. This week it helped send an Alaskan fishing business to bankruptcy, Bloomberg writes. Whittier Seafood and its Alaskan and Washington affiliates, a group of companies that generated $41 …

Telegram becomes free speech flashpoint after founder’s arrest

11:27 28.08.2024

Telegram becomes free speech flashpoint after founder’s arrest

Relations between Moscow and Paris have hit a new low amid the stance the French authorities have taken on free speech, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday commenting on the recent arrest of Telegram founder and French-Russian citizen Pavel Durov. "Relations between Moscow and Paris have flatlined, partly …

FP: The Westless – collapse of the West is too sensationalist

11:24 28.08.2024

FP: The Westless – collapse of the West is too sensationalist

We are fast passing the peak era of global Western power and influence. The “collapse of the West” is too sensationalist. But there is a transition underway from an era of unbridled Western global influence to one of contested Western influence, ‘Foreign Policy’ stresses. New centers of power are emerging …

IAEA chief Grossi confirms signs left by Ukrainian drone attacks on Kursk NPP in Russia

11:21 28.08.2024

IAEA chief Grossi confirms signs left by Ukrainian drone attacks on Kursk NPP in Russia

The visit of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi is due to the proximity of hostilities and the danger of a nuclear incident. Rafael Grossi announced to journalists on Tuesday that during his inspection of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Russia he personally saw traces …

Sergey Lavrov: Ukraine's demands to the West to allow the use of Storm Shadow missiles on Moscow and St. Petersburg are blackmail and “playing with fire”

16:04 27.08.2024

Sergey Lavrov: Ukraine's demands to the West to allow the use of Storm Shadow missiles on Moscow and St. Petersburg are blackmail and “playing with fire”

"Americans definitely associate these conversations about the third world war as something that, God forbid, if it is realized, could affect only Europe... And in this situation, it is probably very important to understand that we have our own doctrine, including the doctrine of the use of nuclear weapons, which, …

American and European rulers are panicking and trying out all sorts of irrational options

11:41 27.08.2024

American and European rulers are panicking and trying out all sorts of irrational options

"Whatever remains of the West will be an increasingly artificial and even insane attempt to stop the wheel of history."Oswald Spengler We are approaching a turning point in History, writes a Turkish newspaper ‘Sabah’. Against the backdrop of the struggle between the West and the rising Asia-Pacific region on the …

Democratic progress? Ukrainian Parliament votes to ban Orthodox Church in Ukraine

11:40 27.08.2024

Democratic progress? Ukrainian Parliament votes to ban Orthodox Church in Ukraine

Ukraine’s Parliament has created the legal tools for a governmental ban on any religious group that it deems to be too closely tied to Russia by voting for a bill that explicitly bans the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, writes ‘The American Greatness’. However, the ban also directly affects the …

De-dollarization: China’s Yuan hits internationalisation landmark with record share of global payments

11:39 27.08.2024

De-dollarization: China’s Yuan hits internationalisation landmark with record share of global payments

The Chinese yuan’s share in global payments hit a record high in July, a milestone in Beijing’s efforts to fend off the hegemony of the US dollar and increase its say in the international monetary system, ‘South China Morning Post’ informs. The yuan kept its fourth-place spot in the ranking …

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