Eurasia

The resignation of Henryk Kowalczyk was seen as a political cost PiS had to pay to appease farmers angry at the flood of Ukrainian grain into the country and to enable the first state visit of Ukraine’s president to pass off smoothly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid his first state …

In other news, plans are in the works for Hungarian PM to visit Ukraine; Slovakia’s National Security Authority claims acting interior minister illegally accessed classified EU and NATO documents; and Poland gets 2 new ministers. Rental housing prices in the Czech Republic have risen dramatically over recent years, driven higher …

The battle for Bakhmut has already become the longest and bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine. Losses are high – on both sides, and the outcome is still uncertain. Why is Bahmut so important? Before this war, hardly anyone had heard of Bahmut, a small town of seventy thousand …

I am not very familiar with the actions of the newly elected President of Montenegro. I only know that he was elected to the apostolic government of Zdravko Krivokapić on the recommendation, to put it mildly, of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral. Which already makes me doubt the …

The elections will take place when they ask me to, said the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, answering the question of when the elections will be held in Serbia. Vučić pointed out that Dragan Đilas will win the holding of the Belgrade elections and not only him, but others who …

A Lack of Dialogue, Visits, and Exchanges Is Raising the Risk of Conflict Relations between the United States and China have fallen to their darkest depths since the early 1970s, when U.S. President Richard Nixon met with Chinese leader Mao Zedong (and Nixon’s national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, met with …

America Needs to Get Tough on Tbilisi As the United States and its NATO allies are focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Russia’s efforts to bring another country into its orbit has gone largely unnoticed. Like many countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, Georgia …

According to veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, the mainstream media’s yarn about a pro-Ukrainian group that chartered a yacht named Andromeda to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines was so absurd and childish that one would suspect it was made intentionally to reinforce the truth. On April 5, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour …

As China hosts on Thursday the Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers in Beijing, the Gulf states have an opportunity to capitalize on its growing role. In a world where superpowers vie for influence, the recent China-mediated reconciliation deal last month restoring diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Thursday’s …

CICC has about five to six people in its Middle East offices serving the entire region with a mix of Chinese and regional staff. China International Capital Corporation (CICC) plans to expand its reach in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, as China’s ties with the Middle East …