Zelensky – a Ukrainian Churchill in making
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times” – Michael Hopf. There could have been no better leader than Zelensky to...
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Kremlin says presidents agree to further U.S.-Russian talks on Ukraine
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden set out their opposing positions on Ukraine in a video call on Tuesday and agreed that Russia and the United States should keep talking, the Kremlin said. “It’s...
EU leaders rebuff German-French push for Putin summit
EU leaders said Friday the bloc had rejected a push by Germany and France to relaunch meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin after fierce resistance from member states worried about Moscow’s aggressions. Berlin and...
Talking or bickering? Will Putin and Biden discuss the “dirty war” in the Middle East?
The whole world is looking forward to the meeting of the new US President Joe Biden with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Although the Kremlin and the White House urge people not to expect...
Ukraine advances treason case against Kremlin ally
The Ukrainian authorities put Viktor Medvedchuk, the Kremlin’s most prominent ally in Ukraine, under formal suspicion for high treason on Tuesday as part of a crackdown on his circle that has fuelled tensions between...
Livid Russia expels 20 Czechs after blast blamed on Skripal suspects
Moscow expelled 20 Czech diplomats on Sunday in a confrontation over Czech allegations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an earlier explosion at a...
Russia poised to vote for “imperial” constitution
Just as the whole world prepares to combat the coronavirus pandemic, constitutional reform is underway in Russia, where a commission of prominent public figures loyal to the Kremlin has been working since January to...
Yulia Tymoshenko: Global face for revolution, a prisoner, and the next Ukrainian president?
Yulia Tymoshenko has been Ukraine’s prime minister twice, was the global face of a revolution, imprisoned by two different presidents, and the target of an operation to discredit her by President Donald Trump’s former...
Concerned About Russian ‘Mischief,’ US Defense Secretary to Visit Macedonia
“If you have a vote, Moscow will meddle with it,” seems to be the precept fixed into the minds of senior US leaders these days. Any vote is inherently endangered by Russia’s meddling techniques, which are so advanced that...
New sanctions imposed on Russia by Washington in light of the revelations in Skripals’ poisoning case.
The United States has imposed a set of new sanctions on Russia, related to the poisoning of a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain in the month of March this year. These sanctions are set to go into effect from Monday.
