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Europe’s reply to new threats from USA

11:49 21.08.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

Europe’s reply to new threats from USA

A group of American Senators has threatened to introduce sanctions against the German port of Sassnitz if its operator continues to assist in completing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Such threats, the German Handelsblatt says, “deal a blow in the face of Europeans”. Nevertheless, both Germany and the EU …

Lebanon: detonation of instability

11:58 14.08.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

Lebanon: detonation of instability

On August 4th two powerful explosions shook Beirut destroying the port and most the city. According to recent reprots, the explosion was caused by the inflammation and detonation of 2,750 tons of ammonia nitrate. Reports of August 8th say the blast killed more than 150 people, while the number of …

Nile water is indivisible

12:22 13.08.2020 Yuri Menshikov

Nile water is indivisible

On August 6, the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya held an online roundtable "Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan: how to share the waters of the Nile." In July, Ethiopia said that it had started to fill the reservoir of the newly-built Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River. The dam - …

Alexander Lukashevich: OSCE is not in its best shape

11:32 10.08.2020 Anna Yershova

Alexander Lukashevich: OSCE is not in its best shape

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has celebrated the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act. The news agency Rossiya Segodnya marked this memorable occasion by hosting an online briefing by Russia's Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.“August 1, 1975 ushered in a new …

Latin America – Russia: an Agenda for Constructive Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era

21:02 06.08.2020 Juan Martin González Cabañas

Latin America – Russia: an Agenda for Constructive Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era

On Tuesday, August 4, the outstanding video-conference “Latin America – Russia: an Agenda for Constructive Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era” was held organized by the Valdai Club , the Russian Embassy in Guatemala, the AMerican CHAMber of commerce (AmCham), the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) the SIECA(Central American Secretariat for Economic …

5G: a Geostrategic sector for Algorithmic finance

12:16 03.08.2020 Alessandro Zeoli

5G: a Geostrategic sector for Algorithmic finance

The last ones were days of increasing tensions between the two biggest economic superpowers, the USA and China. The geopolitical crescendo seems to become always more intense, and the two giants are trying to build up two strong alignments against one another in a competition that Bloomberg defines a “Cold …

Life and travel in a new normality…

11:54 28.07.2020 Alexander Moiseyev

Life and travel in a new normality…

Weary of the COVID-19 epidemic and feeling the pinch of significant financial losses during the months of the coronavirus crisis, the world is in a hurry to open borders, restart air traffic and resume tourist travel without even waiting for the pandemic to fizzle out. Simultaneously, many countries are doubling …

Cyber-security threat and italian resilience

11:55 25.07.2020 Cristina Semeraro

Cyber-security threat and italian resilience

There is a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it is not about who has got the most bullets. It is about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think…it is all about the information. (From the movie Sneakers, 1992)Cyber …

Turkey-EU: contradictory friendship with no strings attached

0:13 23.07.2020 Andrey Isayev

Turkey-EU: contradictory friendship with no strings attached

It looks like Turkey’s European choice, proclaimed by [the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal] Ataturk, is finally becoming a thing of the past. Moreover, this trend is apparently being supported by Europe.This process can be speeded up by Ankara's recent moves, which the European Union considers inappropriate: …

The Evaluation of Water-Resouces: a socio-economic perspective

11:59 22.07.2020 Alessandro Zeoli

The Evaluation of Water-Resouces: a socio-economic perspective

INTRODUCTIONWater is an essential element for the existence and persistence of life on Earth. It is fundamental for human lives, ecosystems, and industry; hence it is necessary for the provision (clearly connected to the quality and quantity of the available resource) of services, such as hydroelectricity generation and goods like …

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