Eurasia Press & News

“There is great interest in the weapons of our defense industry, which is why an additional investment of about 700 million euros will be secured in that sector before the end of the year,” said Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia from the arms fair in Abu Dhabi. “We will …

On February 12 and 13, 2023, the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a two-part interview by the daily’s chief editor, Ghassan Charbel, with Leila Khaled, a former terrorist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and a current member of the Palestinian National Council. Khaled was involved …

As the war in Ukraine drags on, Western sanctions on Russia, the world’s largest natural gas and second-largest oil exporter, have sent Europe hunting for alternatives in the Middle East and North Africa. The year-old war in Ukraine has shifted energy dynamics between Europe and the Middle East as Russia, …

Turkey is increasingly relying on airpower in its fight against the PKK. New parties have been drawn into the conflict as it spreads to new theatres in Iraq and Syria, which, for now at least, complicates potential efforts to settle things down. Early February brought a fresh demonstration of the …

Sergei Strokan on what and why the main Chinese diplomat flew to Moscow The eight-day tour of the highest-ranking Chinese diplomat, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Wang Yi, which began last week in Paris, finishes in Moscow, and on the eve of the anniversary of …

The Justice Ministry has given the green light for the extradition of Russian citizen and notorious photographer Svetlana Timofeeva who was arrested in Albania on charges of espionage in August 2022, though her lawyer fears she would face human rights violations if she returns to Russia. Timofeeva was caught along …

In statements over the weekend, the leaders of France and Czechia warned against seeking Russia’s total collapse after the war in Ukraine, saying it would be problematic for Europe and instead called for its defeat. In an interview with Journal du Dimanche, France inter and Le Figaro, on Saturday evening …

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last February, Belarusian volunteer Dzyanis Prokharau and his comrades found themselves in a half-destroyed building near Bucha, a Kyiv region town now known for atrocities that survivors say Moscow’s forces committed there, surrounded by advancing Russian troops and waiting for Ukrainian soldiers to evacuate them. …

At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced that his country was currently in consultations with ‘our friends in Europe’ over the framework of a peace proposal for Ukraine. It is to be laid out in full by President Xi Jinping on the first …

The new arming of Serbia and the increase in the level of fear among citizens represents the system of governance of Aleksandar Vučić, according to Danas interlocutors, reacting to the statement of the President of Serbia that he will invest huge amounts of money in the defense industry and the …