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Denmark to boost Greenland defense amid Trump comments

11:44 04.01.2025

Denmark to boost Greenland defense amid Trump comments

Denmark announced a major new package to boost the security of Greenland in a move the Danish defense minister called “ironic” because it came just two days after President-elect Trump called for U.S. ownership of the Arctic island. Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that …

View from India: The skyrocketing gas prices will further shoot up the cost of production in European economies

11:41 04.01.2025

View from India: The skyrocketing gas prices will further shoot up the cost of production in European economies

The end of Russian natural gas flows to Europe via Ukraine is likely to boost competition with Asia and prices for alternatives, Bloomberg notes. “This is going to further tighten the LNG market,” Scott Darling, a managing director at Haitong International Securities, said on Bloomberg TV on Thursday. “Supply, particularly …

Vasily Nebenzia: Germany and Japan will not be able to get a seat in the UN Security Council

11:41 04.01.2025

Vasily Nebenzia: Germany and Japan will not be able to get a seat in the UN Security Council

Germany and Japan will not be able to get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, said Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia. "The anniversary of the organization (UN - ed.) is, of course, an occasion to look back and look to the future. Naturally, the main …

View from Britain: How ‘global Troika’ can transform the world in 2025

11:19 03.01.2025

View from Britain: How ‘global Troika’ can transform the world in 2025

Panic in Britain! Britain fears the Trump arrival. In Britain, they already called USA, Russia and China "the revisionists". In this very interesting FT comment you can see how the British themselves suddenly imagine a situation where the US, Russia and China can become a "global Troika" that will agree …

The Daily Beast: “Without a speaker, the House of Representatives could become paralyzed, and unable to certify Trump’s re-election victory, plunging the Capitol and the country into political chaos”

11:18 03.01.2025

The Daily Beast: “Without a speaker, the House of Representatives could become paralyzed, and unable to certify Trump’s re-election victory, plunging the Capitol and the country into political chaos”

The MAGA-verse could be on the brink of exploding into an all-encompassing constitutional crisis, with Donald Trump’s inauguration as possible collateral damage. The incoming Congress is scheduled to start on Jan. 3, but following a bruising pre-Christmas battle to keep the government open, a few Republican lawmakers — and even …

MFA: Main foreign policy results in 2024

11:17 03.01.2025

MFA: Main foreign policy results in 2024

Main Foreign Policy Results In 2024. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 27 December 2024. In the outgoing year, Russian diplomacy made energetic efforts to implement the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation approved by President Vladimir Putin in March 2023. While the collective West …

Euro-happiness: Era of cheap Russian gas to EU ends as transit across Ukraine stops

11:12 03.01.2025

Euro-happiness: Era of cheap Russian gas to EU ends as transit across Ukraine stops

Kiev’s refusal to extend a gas transit deal with Moscow has forced the Russian company Gazprom to stop gas transit at 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 a.m. GMT) on January 1, the company said in a statement, TASS reports. "As Ukraine repeatedly and clearly refused to extend these agreements, Gazprom …

Paris Olympic medals are spoiled – the French cheated the athletes and don’t give them the precious metals

10:02 31.12.2024

Paris Olympic medals are spoiled – the French cheated the athletes and don’t give them the precious metals

French swimmers reveal shocking state of their Olympic bronze medals four months on from Paris 2024 – after terrible conditions of medals went viral in summer. Two French swimmers have become the latest Olympians to complain about the shocking state of their bronze medals – four months on from the …

FT: Russians turn to ‘personal shoppers’ to smuggle luxury bags

10:01 31.12.2024

FT: Russians turn to ‘personal shoppers’ to smuggle luxury bags

Wealthy Russians are routinely sidestepping trade curbs on luxury brands, using a cottage industry of personal shoppers, resellers and cross-border smugglers to stay in step with the best of European fashion. Social media platform have filled with resellers catering to both large retailers and private buyers in Russia, promising a …

Former UK PM Boris Johnson appears in Ukrainian New Year film

9:59 31.12.2024

Former UK PM Boris Johnson appears in Ukrainian New Year film

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been featured in the Ukrainian New Year film on 31 December. Quote: "Dobryi den [‘Good afternoon’ in Ukrainian – ed.], everybody. Happy New Year, Ukraintsi [‘Ukrainians’ – ed.]," says the former PM in the video, wearing a hat bearing a phrase traditionally associated …

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