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May 5, 2025 Balkans, Eurasia, Serbia
Serbia’s anti-corruption movement has reached new heights: a demonstration in Belgrade this March yielded hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors and marked the largest demonstration in Serbia since the monumental 1990s protests against the tyrannical Milošević regime. This mass discontent presents the greatest challenge President Aleksandar Vučić has faced to …
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May 5, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The British government is in talks with its French and Saudi counterparts over official recognition of a Palestinian state, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has revealed. Discussions are set to take place at a conference at the UN in June, The Guardian reported. So far, 160 countries recognize Palestine, including …
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May 5, 2025 Eurasia
The long-debated “minerals deal” was finally signed between the US and Ukraine late Wednesday, after a months-long, whiplash-producing back and forth between the two parties. In the end, Wednesday started with an affirmation that the deal would be signed, then by mid-day we were told that the Ukraine government aircraft …
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May 5, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
“We are committed to distancing Iraq from regional wars,” Hussein said. “Baghdad does not desire escalation in the region.” Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein warned that the threat posed by ISIS has resurfaced, cautioning that the extremist group is actively regrouping and planning attacks. His remarks came in a special …
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May 5, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus early on Friday, in its clearest warning yet to Syria’s new Islamist-led authorities of its readiness to ramp up military action in the name of the country’s Druze minority.Syria’s government called the bombing a “dangerous escalation” amid increasing hostility between …
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May 5, 2025 Eurasia
In early 2018, near the tail end of a major cryptocurrency boom, a Lithuanian start-up called Bankera announced that it had managed to raise over 100 million euros in just six months by selling its own digital coin. The company said the funds would be used to fashion a “bank …
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May 4, 2025 Eurasia
Nord Stream 2—the only U.S.-Russian business project that looks like a viable prospect once the fighting in Ukraine ends—raises more questions than answers. Renewed diplomatic contact between Moscow and Washington under U.S. President Donald Trump has quickly become economic as well as political. Statements from both sides about wanting to …
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May 4, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Iran-backed terror group has withdrawn north of the Litani River without fight, security official claims, as President Aoun says full deployment hindered by IDF control of 5 posts The Lebanese army has dismantled “over 90 percent” of Hezbollah’s infrastructure near the border with Israel since a November ceasefire, a security …
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April 29, 2025 Eurasia
New Evidence of China’s Involvement in Russian Drone Programs Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) would share a significant piece of intelligence with Beijing: that Chinese citizens are working in a drone production plant in Russia and may have bypassed authorities to transfer Chinese …
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April 29, 2025 Eurasia
Ceci est le premier volet d’une série en trois parties consacrée à l’histoire des exercices militaires de l’OTAN et du Commandement européen des États-Unis avec l’Ukraine. Il montre comment l’Occident, agissant comme un chameau, a glissé son gros nez sous la tente ukrainienne dans le cadre d’une stratégie à long …
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