On Wednesday, Tunisia announced that it had restored its pandemic-era restrictions, imposing a 10 p.m. curfew and banning all gatherings for two weeks. According to President Kais Saied’s government, the decision was made in order to combat the recent, rapid spread of the coronavirus’s omicron variant. Yet the timing was …

In September 2021, the Polish government declared a state of emergency along its border with Belarus, which is also the European Union’s eastern frontier, in response to a large influx of migrants from countries including Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. The route and timing of the migrants’ journey into Europe was …

Активизация диалога России и Запада по проблемам безопасности запустила процесс радикальной перенастройки отношений Украины со всем евроатлантическим сообществом. Главный тектонический сдвиг состоит в том, что ставка как на американский, так и на общеевропейский внешнеполитический проекты теряет для Киева прежний смысл. Вашингтон все более активно подталкивает Киев к выполнению Минских соглашений, …

D’une guerre perdue, il n’existe malheureusement pas de « sortie honorable ». Comme Eric Vuillard dans un livre récent sur l’Indochine, le Mali en fournit une nouvelle démonstration. Paris a donc « pris note » del’expulsion de l’ambassadeur de France par les autorités maliennes, se donnant le temps de consulter …

Ungarns Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán hat sein Land zu einem bevorzugten Partner autoritärer Regime in der EU gemacht. Das hat sich für beide Seiten ausgezahlt: für Orbán in Form von Investitionen in sein Land, für die Herrscher in Moskau und Peking dadurch, dass der Ungar die Einigkeit des Westens ihnen gegenüber …

Beginning with Magna Carta, constitutions were created to limit the ability of the powers to act without the approval of the people, Lev Shlosberg says. But Vladimir Putin has not merely gutted the provisions of the Russian Constitution but reversed its meaning. For him, Russia’s basic law has become a …

Weapons training, which featured a piece of pressed composite wood cut in the shape of a rifle, was going well for 18-year-old Anna Kuksa until she pivoted to her left, as ordered by her camouflaged trainer. One of her fellow students turned to the right, and they collided and tripped …

The Cold War ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the diminishing of Moscow’s influence in Eastern Europe. The geopolitical situation of world today has presented Russia with an opportunity to again assert its primacy in Eastern Europe. The United States now is deeply divided politically and is …

You would think that the problems facing the United States would be enough for brain-dead Biden. With massive inflation, the economy is teetering on the brink of ruin. We face tyrannical control because of harmful vaccine mandates. Bogus propaganda about “climate change” threatens to cripple American industry. The government seeks …

As fears grow that Moscow may react to mooted western sanctions by halting gas exports to Europe, Europe and Azerbaijan are talking about how Baku may help by boosting its own gas exports westward. The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, confirmed on January 30 that Brussels was in …