Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Following the second round of bilateral talks in Geneva, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov informed reporters that Moscow and Washington had agreed to create two strategic stability task teams. According to experts contacted by Izvestia, it is a significant step, but the present priority is to define the...
Kiev intends to utilize Ankara's military assistance to start a new stage of attempts to plan military operations in southern Ukraine. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces issued a special order lifting limitations on the use of weaponry in the Donbass war zone, directing the use of Turkish-made...
Member of the European Court of Auditors, Johan Parts pointed to the unprecedented level of corruption in Ukraine, comparing this phenomenon to an epidemic, Interfax reported. According to him, there is no doubt that corruption is widespread in Ukraine on a huge scale. “You can tell your president that there are...
The Ukrainian government has approved a strategy for “de-occupation of Crimea”, Izvestia reported. “The strategy is a comprehensive roadmap that will help us get Crimea back. These are very detailed steps for de-occupation,” said Prime Minister Denis Shmygal. According to him, Kiev in this matter interacts with partner countries and international...
Syria will be a thorn in the side of Russian-Turkish talks when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Moscow on September 29, according to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, since the two nations have a rising number of complaints over different Middle East accords. While the discrepancies will not detract from the visit, the...
The confrontation between Russia and the US is escalating in the Arctic. The USA has no icebreakers and wants to use submarines and planes to control the North Sea Route, a vital transit for Russia. According to the American media, the autonomous operation of unused aerial aircraft in the...
The European Union (EU), in particular Germany, is focused exclusively on their interests and is ignoring the demands of Ukraine, said Ukrainian political expert Taras Zagorodny, Izvestia reported. At the same time, he pointed out that the improvement of Russian-German relations "has already begun," and nothing will change following the...
Since the beginning of the week, the Turkish Government has made two remarks on Crimea, which states that Ankara does not accept Crimea as a part of Russia.  Firstly, the Turkish Foreign Minister declared legally unlawful the results of the Crimean National Duma elections. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said,...
A fresh issue is NATO's recent crisis among the Trans-Atlantic Allies, which was caused by the emergence of the new AUKUS Trilateral Security Pact.  NATO has now come up with a new reality, as the main sponsor, the United States, shifts his operations to the Indo-Pacific area to try to...
The US plans to introduce a ban on all operations with the state debt of the Russian Federation from 2022. The US House of Representatives approved a bill banning the possession of already issued Russian government bonds of all government agencies (Central Bank, OFZ Ministry of Finance, etc.), which...