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Price war on oil and gas market from geopolitical perspective

12:34 08.04.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

Price war on oil and gas market from geopolitical perspective

The collapse of the OPEC+ deal, coupled with a drop in demand amid the raging coronavirus pandemic, has sent tectonic shocks across the global oil and gas markets. Simultaneously, attacks on the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project have intensified again.The global demand for oil had started to decline well before …

COVID-19 in India: The bright and the dark sides

12:31 01.04.2020 Amrita Dhilon

COVID-19 in India: The bright and the dark sides

Many fortresses have collapsed and the invisible enemy has entered everywhere. Indians are at the doorsteps of one of the biggest threats looming. Indian government along with the state governments have announced a 21-days lockdown and requested all the citizens to stay at home, however, few of the essential services …

Report on the situation of the Covid-19 in Argentina

17:49 28.03.2020 Juan Martin González Cabañas

Report on the situation of the Covid-19 in Argentina

To the date (March 27 at 8:00 p.m.) the total number of infected is 690 with 17 dead and 72 recovered cases.The epidemic by district (provinces) of the country:Government measuresSince March 13 a total quarantine has been established in the country by executive decree of President Alberto Fernández. These measures …

Russian army lends a helping hand to Italy

9:55 26.03.2020 Alexander Sheffner

Russian army lends a helping hand to Italy

For the past three days, Russian military transport planes with medical specialists and aid on board have been landing at an air base near Rome to help Italy in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Critics immediately started looking for some ulterior motives behind Moscow’s move, describing it as just …

Whence came the coronavirus?

10:26 25.03.2020

Whence came the coronavirus?

The coronavirus pandemic now spreading across the globe has once again raised the eternal question of what to do and who is to blame? Unable to answer the first question, many world leaders are now trying to answer the second, blaming each other for the spread of the virus. The …

Germany: CDU - three in one

12:10 20.03.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

Germany: CDU - three in one

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will hold an extraordinary congress on April 25 to elect its new chairperson, who is almost certain to lead the party to next year’s federal elections to culminate in the election of the country’s new Chancellor in lieu of Angela Merkel, who has already …

Coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated EU’s inefficiency, says expert

0:14 19.03.2020

Coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated EU’s inefficiency, says expert

He admitted that a common coordinating agency to manage the situation with the spread of the novel coronavirus would be set up in Brussels.ROME, March 18./TASS/. A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has demonstrated European Union’s inability to pursue common policy and its incompetence, that will cost the EU the …

Russian-Japanese dialogue in the context of amendments to the Constitution that envisage a ban on transfer of territories

10:52 17.03.2020 Vladimir Petrovsky

Russian-Japanese dialogue in the context of amendments to the Constitution that envisage a ban on transfer of territories

As Russia discusses amendments to the Constitution, an issue of particular concern has been the amendment that prohibits the alienation of Russian territories. The amendment will likely be put to vote on April 22. It is not surprising that it has evoked interest abroad, especially in Japan, where they still …

A new world order, or will globalization survive the coronavirus pandemic?

10:50 16.03.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

A new world order, or will globalization survive the coronavirus pandemic?

With the number of cases of coronavirus spreading in multiple countries around the globe, the outbreak has already been labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Global economic relations have been hit hard by the virus, and demands for making the West less dependent on supplies from third …

Poland and migrants – conservatism vs economy

11:57 10.03.2020 Vladislav Gulevich

Poland and migrants – conservatism vs economy

Poland’s migration policy has undergone a number of changes in recent years. Compared to 2011, when 100 thousand foreigners reportedly lived in Poland, at present their number exceeds one million. Forecasts show that in 2030 the Polish economy will need 1.5 million workers, which represents a serious internal problem for …

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