Eurasia Press & News
Однажды наступает момент, когда надо переходить от слов к делу. Примерно десять дней назад начались учения, в ходе которых были задействованы перехватчики МиГ-31 и дальние бомбардировщики Су-34. И мощью нашей авиации были разбомблены объекты под Воронежем. Но не всё же нам бомбить Воронеж! Пора уже показать высокий класс и потенциальному …
Read More »Five years on from the Brexit referendum, the result is clear: both unions are losing
Five years after the fateful referendum on 23 June 2016, what is the current balance sheet of Brexit? Answer: two weakened unions, the British and the European, and bad-tempered relations between them. Lose. Lose. Lose. The weakening of the British union is obvious. There will be another referendum on Scottish …
Read More »Die EU will Putin aus der Kälte holen
Deutschland und Frankreich drängen darauf, nach sieben Jahren wieder EU-Russland-Gipfel zu veranstalten – und das angesichts der brutalsten Repressionswelle des Kreml seit Sowjetzeiten. Warum jetzt? Diese Frage stellen sich nicht nur in Brüssel viele, seit am Mittwochnachmittag die „Financial Times“ berichtete, dass Angela Merkel und Emmanuel Macron so etwas ähnliches …
Read More »Biden’s Balkans Order Underscores US Concern over Region’s Direction
The threat of US sanctions hangs over those deemed to be destabilising the Western Balkans, in politics and beyond. Who does Washington have in mind? An expanded executive order issued by US President Joe Biden and which takes aim at those deemed to be destabilising the Western Balkans is a …
Read More »ORDO IURIS: THE ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE ORGANISATION TRANSFORMING POLAND
Poland has made headlines recently by virtually banning abortion, passing municipal anti-LGBT resolutions and even trying to coordinate regional opposition to women’s rights. BIRN takes a closer look at Ordo Iuris, the NGO playing a major role in the recent conservative blitzkrieg. hen the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture …
Read More »The Carousel: How a Moscow Bank Made Big Loans to its Serbian Owners
Bank documents and a secretly made tape show how Serbian shareholders of a Moscow-based bank funnelled Serbian central bank deposits to their own companies. Three Serbian businessmen – shareholders and board members of a Moscow-based bank founded in the 1990s to help Belgrade bust international sanctions during Yugoslavia’s bloody collapse …
Read More »Raisi’s Election Is Galvanizing Both Sides of the Iran Nuclear Deal Debate
As the regime-anointed candidate in Iran’s presidential election charade last Friday, Ebrahim Raisi’s victory was thoroughly expected. Even so, it managed to be jarring. It’s not every day a country chooses a man accused of crimes against humanity for such a powerful post, with all signs pointing to Raisi acquiring …
Read More »Attack on Iranian nuclear site damaged centrifuge production facility – reports
Despite Tehran’s claims to the contrary, opposition sources say attempted sabotage reported earlier in the day was successful, hitting complex previous sanctioned by the US, UN The attempted attack on an Iranian nuclear site outside Tehran that was reported on Wednesday targeted a facility used in the construction of centrifuges …
Read More »Living with World’s End in Plain Sight
Groton and New London, Connecticut, are home to about 65,000 people, three colleges, the Coast Guard Academy, 15 nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed submarines capable of destroying the world many times over, and General Dynamics’ Electric Boat, a multi-billion-dollar private corporation that offers stock options to its shareholders and mega-salaries to its top …
Read More »The Insurgency Against Big Oil
While Australian politicians languish in a world blotched by climate change scepticism and fossil fuel love-ins, global oil and gas companies have been shaken. Three titans of oil fame – Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron – faced a range of decisions in May that promise to dramatically shape their future operations. …
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