Berlin is deliberately whipping up domestic “anti-Russian sentiment,” the Russian Embassy in Germany has said German accusations of Moscow’s alleged involvement in “hybrid attacks” are “unsubstantiated, unfounded and absurd,” the Russian Embassy in Germany said in a statement on Friday. According to Federal Foreign Office spokesperson Martin Giese, the ministry…
Kiev is ready to call a vote once its demands are met, Vladimir Zelensky’s top adviser has said Kiev is ready to hold an election, but only if a series of conditions are met, including Western funding of the vote, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky,…
The justice and energy ministers were sacked last month amid a large-scale graft scandal Ukraine’s government has no active candidates for the vacant post of energy minister, Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources, more than a month after a major corruption scandal forced the dismissal of the previous official. Last…
The bloc has invoked emergency treaty powers to override opposition from individual member states The European Union has voted to keep Russian central bank assets frozen indefinitely despite opposition from member states. The bloc pushed through the controversial agenda by invoking emergency powers legislation to bypass the need for unanimous…
The Ukrainian leader has refused to call elections for more than a year despite the expiration of his presidential term Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is ready to do anything to maintain his grip on power, which has become “a kind of drug” for him, political scientist Anton Orlov told RT on…
The EU and UK want the next US presidential administration to back a conflict with Russia, Stevan Gajic has said Ukraine and its European backers are hoping to wait out US President Donald Trump’s term in office to pursue a war with Russia with the support of his successor, according…
Beijing is making a bold bid to shape how the world thinks about war, peace, and power in the decades ahead China’s newly released white paper on arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation comes at a moment of deep strategic flux. The document arrives not just as a technical update on…
The Russian central bank has made the first move in what is likely to be a long game of legal chess On Friday, Russia’s central bank announced it is filing a lawsuit in a Moscow Arbitration Court against Belgian-based clearinghouse Euroclear, the custodian of around €185 billion ($220 billion) in…
An editor at the newspaper reportedly said it was “truly astonishing” the product was launched at all The Washington Post’s new AI-based personalized podcasts presented subscribers with invented quotes and factual errors, Semafor reported on Thursday citing internal correspondence at the US newspaper. Rolled out earlier this week, the feature…
The Russian and Turkish presidents have discussed cooperation, regional matters, and key international issues in Turkmenistan Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, discussed cooperation, regional matters, and key international issues in Turkmenistan on Friday, the Kremlin has said. The meeting took place on the sidelines…