December 15, 2021 Eurasia
Wielu rodaków stan wojenny zastał poza krajem. Dzięki hojności francuskich instytucji mógł ich przez dekadę wspierać Komitet Pomocy Polakom we Francji. Komitet został założony 15 grudnia 1981 roku. Inicjatorami jego powstania byli m.in. Bernadette Gradis i Artur Dela, jego pierwszy prezes. Wprowadzenie stanu wojennego w Polsce obudziło ogromną solidarność we …
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December 15, 2021 Balkans
Bosna-Hersek Üçlü Başkanlık Konseyi’nin “Kendimi Bosna-Hersek Devlet Başkanı gibi hissetmiyorum, çünkü bence böyle bir devlet yok” diyen Sırp üyesi Milorad Dodik, geçen Ekim ayında, Sırp Cumhuriyeti entitesinin Bosna-Hersek vergi ve yargı sisteminden çıkması ve kendi ordusunu kurması için entite meclisine teklif götüreceğini söylemişti. Dodik dediğini yaptı ve Sırp Cumhuriyeti Meclisi …
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December 15, 2021 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Syrian Kurdish-led forces said Monday their ant-terrorism unit, with U.S.-led coalition support, killed five suspected Islamic State group fighters in a raid to break up a militant cell in Syria’s east. The Syrian Democratic Forces unit carried out the joint operation with the international coalition near Busayrah, a village in …
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December 13, 2021 Iran, Middle Orient
Many people, even politicians, do not understand the Iranian regime’s bizarre actions in relation to their nuclear ambitions or other areas. In my opinion, the main reason is there is no sociological or political analysis of a significant event. That event took place in Iran in 2019 with the uprising …
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December 13, 2021 Eurasia
As White House phone calls go, the one that Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy had this week may end up being among the most consequential of his presidency. And it’s certainly not the first time U.S. President Joe Biden has held a tough conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart on the subject of …
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December 13, 2021 South East Asia
On 15 November 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden held their first virtual meeting. According to the White House’s readout, Biden told Xi that the two countries should establish ‘common sense guardrails to ensure that US–China competition does not veer into conflict and to keep lines …
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December 13, 2021 Eurasia
This must be a rare occasion when Russian President Vladimir Putin during his 18 years in the Kremlin came out second best in an encounter with an American president. And it had to be at the hands of President Joe Biden who has not yet completed one year in office. …
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December 13, 2021 South East Asia
Until very recently, the hefty monetary and fiscal relaxation unleashed by governments to stimulate the economic recovery at the onset of the global financial crisis has not had major inflationary repercussions, in particular as the main benchmark has been the benign consumer price inflation, rather than the rapidly growing real-estate …
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December 13, 2021 Afghanistan, Eurasia, South East Asia
The Taliban takeover has decimated the gains of the past twenty years achieved by Afghans—against tremendous odds—in the spaces of education, women’s rights, and civil society engagement. With no embassy and no forward presence on the ground in Afghanistan, Washington’s leverage to impact events has been significantly reduced. Among a …
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December 13, 2021 South East Asia
The European Union (EU) has begun to think more creatively about initiatives that can challenge China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including the recently launched “Global Gateway” project. Since its official launch in 2013, China’s BRI— Chairman Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy initiative—has come under criticism from the West and …
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