After the signing of Minsk agreements on cessation of fire and arms withdrawal, the situation in Ukraine calmed down a bit, but the desired conflict de- escalation has not occurred. Russian-terrorist troops continue to shell Ukrainian towns and villages, applying the prohibited (by agreements) heavy weapons. The conflict gradually tightened and there is a danger […]
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Russian bear threatens to Romania
Russian aggression in Ukraine has become a powerful catalyst for rethinking the foundations of many European countries domestic and foreign policies. There is a clear geographical pattern – the closer to the zone of conflict, the higher activity of diplomacy. For geographically “distant” European states, such as Spain or Italy, this problem is very not […]
G7 Summit outcome: Russia doesn’t fit civilized community
On June 7-8 Bavarian castle Schloss Elmau hosted highly-ranked guests – G7 Heads of States. Outcome of this meeting made it clear that EU, as well as the US, is not capable of taking more drastic measures in order to stop Russian aggression. It is rather positive though that G7 members stated their readiness […]
Opportunities lost
During previous 18 years in early summer Saint-Petersburg has been hosting the International Economic Forum. This event used to be a large scale one and usually was organized by Russian government. Lately, the Forum was represented by Mr. Putin . Taking into account that Russian President had been “making friends” with the Western democracies before […]
Why is “Russian World” dangerous for the civilized one
Lately Russian territory has become insufficient for Putin’s self conceit, therefore it started overflowing on the neighbouring states such as Ukraine and Georgia. A brand new concept has become utterly essential in a dash to revise the world order and ranges of influence for Mr Putin could furtively intervene in the affairs of other states […]
De Morais U-turn should cast aspersions on accuracy of his work on Maka Angola
It appears that the defamation trial of prominent Angolan government critic and journalist Rafael Marques de Morais has now been postponed until May as he looks set to retract his accusations against seven military generals.