Warsaw has claimed the Zapad military drills in neighboring Belarus justify the move to block rail freight Poland’s decision to close its border with Belarus has caused major disruption to a key corridor for rail freight traffic between China and the EU, according to Politico. The route affected by the…
Russia seeks to build bridges, not tear them down, the Foreign Ministry has said Moscow has no plans to restrict visas for EU citizens, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. She made the comments after reports that the EU is considering limiting visas for Russian tourists as part…
You may not see it in the headlines, but a quiet revolution is happening behind the scenes in hospital labs, factories, financial firms, and retail storefronts. These industries are placing big bets on artificial intelligence (AI) and what it can do for organizations of all sizes. This shift isn’t just…
Moscow wants all parties to respect its legitimate interests, its top diplomat has said Moscow is open to compromises with Ukraine if its key interests are respected, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations restarted in May in Istanbul after a several-year hiatus, but produced no breakthroughs….
Some 700,000 are currently at the front, the Russian president said Nearly half of Moscow’s active-duty personnel are currently engaged in the conflict with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. The president made the remarks on Thursday during a meeting with leaders of parliamentary groups. He revealed the figure…
The US president has promised to take a “harsh” position on the issue in the future US President Donald Trump has said it is not the right time for him to call for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. A reporter asked Trump aboard Air Force One whether it was…
Lawmakers in Estonia have again passed a controversial church bill twice rejected by Alar Karis as unconstitutional Estonia’s parliament has passed a controversial law aimed at the country’s largest Christian denomination, ignoring repeated objections from President Alar Karis. The bill bans religious groups from ties with foreign entities deemed security…
The internet does “more harm than good” and should be switched off for “weeks,” a Communist MP has said Russians should be forced off the internet on weekends or even entire weeks, Nikolay Arefyev, an MP with the Russian Communist Party (KPRF) has proposed. Doing so would have a positive…
The ‘global majority’ is rewriting the rules of diplomacy – and the West’s monopoly on power is over In economics and sociology, there’s a well-known observation called the Pareto Principle. Named after the Franco-Italian thinker Vilfredo Pareto, it is often summarized as the “80/20 rule”: 20 percent of efforts yield…
France is facing a crisis not seen in almost 70 years – is it time for a Sixth Republic? The France of President Emmanuel Macron, who is really the egomaniac-in-chief, is somewhere on the spectrum between “spiraling political crisis” (Financial Times), “big trouble” (The Economist) and terminal collapse. Again. Barely…