Eurasia

French President Nicolas Sarkozy sent an envoy to Ankara at the weekend to try to calm tensions over his opposition to Turkish membership in the EU, the newspaper Le Figaro reported on Tuesday (May 29th). The paper also said Sarkozy would not prevent the EU from opening three new policy …

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) — Kurdish rebels killed a government militia member in southeastern Turkey, while soldiers arrested two suspected members planning bombings, officials and media reports said on Sunday.

Russian Occupation army incurred during the past few days, more casualties from continuing Mujahideen operations, which coincides with the warmth of the weather in Chechnya. The outcome of the past four days only, was ten Russian soldiers killed and wounded others in a variety of hunting, blowing vehicles and direct …

Russia’s relations with its neighbors remain “an issue of considerable concern” as Russia often approaches them “with a zero-sum mentality, particularly when it comes to those countries, such as Georgia and Ukraine,” Daniel Fried, the U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs said on May 24.

Negocierile între preÅŸedintele ucrainean, pro-occidentalul Viktor IuÅŸcenko, ÅŸi premierul pro-rus, Viktor Ianukovici, vor continua în cursul zilei de astăzi, a anunÅ£at purtătorul de cuvânt al preÅŸedinÅ£iei de la Kiev, citat de France Presse. AnunÅ£ul a venit la capătul unei prime runde de discuÅ£ii, desfăşurate aseară, care a avut ca subiect …

ANKARA, Turkey — Speaking to reporters Thursday (May 24th), Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed government support for the military if it decides to launch a cross-border operation against the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. Erdogan said he is confident that Parliament would back it as well, …

A Russian former KGB officer should be charged with the murder by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the UK’s director of public prosecutions has recommended.  

Brussels and Moscow signalled their readiness Monday (May 21st) to step up efforts towards settling a long-running dispute over Polish meat exports, one of the issues on the agenda of a contentious EU-Russia summit last week.

yже более десяти лет, как разрушено геостратегическое равновесие мира, которое, в свою очередь, являлось детищем времен «холодной войны». При той системе мир был разделен на две морские и наземные геополитические сферы. Каждая сфера имела свои организации и структуры обороны и безопасности, а также свою географическую зону влияния. Две, противостоящие друг …

ERBIL (AFP) — The prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan raised fresh calls on Thursday for a referendum to decide the future of the country’s crucial oil hub of Kirkuk, warning that Kurdish patience had limits.