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View from London: Five European ‘tribes’ for five European crises

11:51 25.01.2024

View from London: Five European ‘tribes’ for five European crises

Will the far right be the big winner in this year’s European elections? If so, what would its victory mean for the future of the EU? And who is the far right? Five years ago, Europe’s leaders rightly recognised that Europeans were suffering a vertigo moment. In Milan Kundera’s words, …

The Il-76 was shot dawn in Russian Belgorod region with 65 Ukrainian prisoners on board. The aircraft was attacked by Ukrainian missiles

18:01 24.01.2024

The Il-76 was shot dawn in Russian Belgorod region with 65 Ukrainian prisoners on board. The aircraft was attacked by Ukrainian missiles

An Il-76 military plane crashed in the Belgorod Region. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, 74 individuals were on board, including 65 Ukrainian captives. TASS has gathered the key information about the incident. What happened - The Il-76 crashed at about 11:00 a.m. Moscow time (8:00 a.m. GMT). There were …

Sergey Lavrov at interview with CBS: “It's impossible to understand how the Americans still try to tell us «okay we're enemies, we called you enemy, we said that you must be strategically defeated, but we still need to visit your strategic nuclear bases»”

15:00 24.01.2024

Sergey Lavrov at interview with CBS: “It's impossible to understand how the Americans still try to tell us «okay we're enemies, we called you enemy, we said that you must be strategically defeated, but we still need to visit your strategic nuclear bases»”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with CBS TV channel, New York, January 22, 2024: Question: As you know, there's a presidential election in Ukraine is on the agenda. Is there a presidential candidate, either President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump, who you believe would be easier to deal …

European mercenaries: Russian missile strike on French base in Ukraine

12:00 24.01.2024

European mercenaries: Russian missile strike on French base in Ukraine

French commitment to the war effort in Ukraine has been interpreted by a number of analysts in the context of the particularly poor relations Paris has with Moscow as a result of their strategic competition in Africa, Writes ‘The Military Watch Magazine”. The Russian Armed Forces on the evening of …

Europe buying Russian oil via India at record rates

11:59 24.01.2024

Europe buying Russian oil via India at record rates

India is benefiting from importing cut-price Russian oil amid European sanctions – and also selling that same oil to EU markets at full price once it has been refined, writes British ‘The Independent’. The EU’s imports of refined oil imports from India grew to record levels in 2023 at the …

Chinese yuan vs US dollar in Africa and elsewhere

11:56 24.01.2024

Chinese yuan vs US dollar in Africa and elsewhere

With a rising US dollar, many African countries are facing debt repayment woes and so are moving away from using the currency. Meanwhile, China is continuing to boost the use of the yuan and local currencies in Africa as part of its de-dollarisation bid, writes ‘The South China Morning Post’. …

Sergey Lavrov at UNSC: “Ukrainian people did not have any interest in waging a war against Russia, and do not have it now. The interests at play are those of the Anglo-Saxons, their accomplices, and the criminal, rotten upper echelons of Kiev who share joint responsibility with the West”

13:44 23.01.2024

Sergey Lavrov at UNSC: “Ukrainian people did not have any interest in waging a war against Russia, and do not have it now. The interests at play are those of the Anglo-Saxons, their accomplices, and the criminal, rotten upper echelons of Kiev who share joint responsibility with the West”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, New York, January 22, 2024: Mr President, thank you for the opportunity to speak. We are following up on the situation in Ukraine today in the context of the continuing supplies of Western weapons and the sending …

How Russia won the sanctions war with the West

11:59 23.01.2024

How Russia won the sanctions war with the West

It is now abundantly clear that Russia has defeated the Western sanctions regime that was intended to cripple its economy and force its withdrawal from Ukraine, stress at ‘Newsweek’ David H. Rundell, a former chief of mission at the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia, and Ambassador Michael Gfoeller, a former …

A ‘Donald Trump menace’ to the White House, NATO and Kyiv

11:57 23.01.2024

A ‘Donald Trump menace’ to the White House, NATO and Kyiv

“The number one reason Republicans will not come out in favor of a supplemental for Ukraine is they don’t want to offend candidate Trump and his supporters,” Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley said on CNN Max. “He’s already made it clear what he would do — the war would be over …

US intel report: Hamas still able to 'fight Israel for months' in Gaza

11:56 23.01.2024

US intel report: Hamas still able to 'fight Israel for months' in Gaza

Hamas has sufficient munitions and manpower to counter Israeli military operations in Gaza for several months, according to US officials. As well as maintaining its capacity to strike Israel with rockets and fight Israeli forces in Gaza, Hamas has even been able to reconstitute its police force in parts of …

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