Eurasia Press & News

The Turkish government is silent on yesterday’s attack “on Syrian rebels”, who are being trained by the Turkish military, commented on October 27 the Turkish journalist Ragyb Soylu. Soylu is an interesting resource as he has good access to information from the Turkish government.

The United States is opening an embassy in the Maldives to strengthen economic and security cooperation five decades after the two nations established diplomatic ties. The move reflects “the continued growth of the U.S.-Maldives relationship and underscoring the United States’ unshakeable commitment to Maldives and the Indo-Pacific region,” said U.S. …

President Donald Trump’s national-security adviser says the world is realigning geopolitically between democratic and authoritarian states as more countries realize the threat posed by China.

PRC Officials Directed Multi-Year Campaign of Harassment and Stalking; Directed at U.S. Residents to Force Their Return to PRC A complaint and arrest warrants were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging eight defendants with conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic …

Le double discours des représentants du culte musulman trahit une réticence à l’assimilation Vingt-quatre heures après avoir tenu des propos intolérables sur la liberté d’expression, Mohammed Moussaoui évoque une « maladresse ».

As the retrial of two top wartime officials of Serbia’s State Security Service enters its final phase, the verdict could establish the facts of Belgrade’s much-denied direct involvement in the 1990s conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Do you recognise the person we are looking at?”

President Hashim Thaci’s uneasy relationship with the Kosovo Specialist Chambers has gone through many phases over the past five years. Accusations from the prosecution in The Hague last week that Thaci has been seeking to undermine the ‘Special Court’ are only the latest chapter in a story that has seen …

Baron Bieberhausen. A lonely dinosaur of a past era. Candeid fruit. These are some of the wittier terms Serbia’s president and leader of the ruling Progressive Party of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has used to describe me in press releases, tweets and TV appearances over the past year. The less flattering …

Conservative forces in both Poland and Slovakia used the cover of the pandemic to try to push through stricter limits on abortion this week. They succeeded in Poland, but just failed in Slovakia. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal on Thursday ruled that abortions in the case of a malformation of the …

North Macedonia on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States on security issues linked with new telecommunications technologies, which is expected to indirectly bar China’s tech giants, Huawei and ZTE from the race in the country to build 5G.