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(Geo)political background of Il-76MD shootdown

11:57 08.02.2024

(Geo)political background of Il-76MD shootdown

When the Kyiv regime shot down a Russian Il-76MD transport aircraft packed with Ukrainian POWs (prisoners of war) on January 24, the United Nations said that they were still "waiting for evidence" who downed the plane. This was despite the fact that the Neo-Nazi junta forces immediately bragged about the …

EU cautious on idea of using Russian frozen assets as collateral

11:54 08.02.2024

EU cautious on idea of using Russian frozen assets as collateral

Belgium has proposed to Group of Seven (G7) countries to use immobilised Russian central bank assets as collateral to raise debt for the reconstruction of Ukraine, but the idea does not have much European support, European officials said, Reuters informs. According to the European Commission, there are more than 269 …

Asian regional security architecture is emerging

11:53 08.02.2024

Asian regional security architecture is emerging

Asian regional security architecture is emerging with the above three legs reinforcing, supplementing and interchanging in a creative response to the rapidly transforming international environment, notes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. The diplomatic recognition of the Taliban (banned in Russia) government in Afghanistan on January 31, 2024 …

Trump team targets European Union for punishing trade steps

11:51 08.02.2024

Trump team targets European Union for punishing trade steps

Donald Trump is targeting the European Union for a potential slew of punitive trade measures designed to address long-standing grievances should he retake office, according to people familiar with his team’s nascent economic-platform discussions, writes Bloomberg. A likely starting point in a second Trump administration would be the EU’s inclusion …

Gordon Brown: A New Multilateralism

11:57 07.02.2024

Gordon Brown: A New Multilateralism

These are interesting assessments of the global situation, set out in an article for ‘Foreign Policy’ magazine by a former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. A ship in stormy seas needs steady anchors, and today there are none. The world used to be anchored by U.S. hegemony. Those unipolar days …

German minister of finance: “Our economy is no longer competitive”

11:56 07.02.2024

German minister of finance: “Our economy is no longer competitive”

Economic Germany’s problems have become obvious even to Olaf Scholz’s local associates. Thus, the head of the German Ministry of Finance, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Christian Lindner (photo), said at a Bloomberg event in Frankfurt that the German economy is experiencing great difficulties. Germany “no …

Asia’s commercial heft helps keep Russia’s economy going and growing

11:55 07.02.2024

Asia’s commercial heft helps keep Russia’s economy going and growing

Following Vladimir Putin’s special military operation in Ukraine two years ago, more than three dozen countries, led by the West, slapped economic sanctions on Russia. They were unprecedented in their scope for a target of its size, covering energy and other commodities, finance, technology, travel, shipping and more. Their aim …

Rep. Luna: “Any politician who advocates for sending American troops to Ukraine to be required to fight on the front lines with them”

11:53 07.02.2024

Rep. Luna: “Any politician who advocates for sending American troops to Ukraine to be required to fight on the front lines with them”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (photo) will address the Uniparty’s border-foreign wars bill with her own bill. Chuck Schumer threatened Americans. If the bill isn’t passed, Americans will be fighting Russia, a war no one wants except the Uniparty. Rep. Luna’s bill is perfect. “In honor of Chuck Schumer, I’ll be …

Nuland rushed to Kyiv. Why?

12:16 06.02.2024

Nuland rushed to Kyiv. Why?

The Biden administration wants the Ukraine war to continue at least until after US Presidential elections next November. But there is a lurking danger that won't be possible, especially if Russia mounts a really big offensive. For that reason there is a new plan that has been emerging. It is …

View from China: Western plan to seize Russian assets a dangerous precedent

12:15 06.02.2024

View from China: Western plan to seize Russian assets a dangerous precedent

No one would know if their sovereign assets would be seized by the West one day, once the West opens the Pandora's box of confiscation, stresses the Chinese ‘Global Times’. It is no secret that ever since Western governments froze approximately $300 billion of sovereign Russian assets, they have been …

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