Eurasia Press & News

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, at the session held yesterday, decided to start the procedure for considering Kosovo’s request for admission to that organization. Against this proposal were Romania, Cyprus, Spain, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Serbia, as well as Hungary, even though the country recognized the independence …

After weeks of escalating tensions, open military clashes broke out on April 15 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), where the latter is a powerful paramilitary group. Despite the fact that both groups were previously close allies who jointly seized control of Sudan in …

Issuing a statement, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that the Turkish army has renewed airstrike on the positions of PKK elements in northern Iraq. According to the statement, three PKK elements were killed in the attack. Earlier on April 17, two people were killed and two others were injured …

American Power’s Staying Power In the 1990s and the early years of this century, the United States’ global dominance could scarcely be questioned. No matter which metric of power one looked at, it showed a dramatic American lead. Never since the birth of the modern state system in the mid-seventeenth …

For many years, the US dollar has been the official currency for international commerce. However, there has recently been discussion of developing a new currency in order to replace the dollar and challenge the dollar’s hegemony. The situation worsens in 2022, when the world witnesses an unprecedented wave of sanctions …

Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, and Kazakhstan are four key “priority countries” the EU aims to keep close in its efforts to deal with Russia and contain China, according to an internal memo seen by EURACTIV. “We find ourselves in a competitive geopolitical environment: not only a battle of narratives but also …

In March 2023, at his summit meeting in Moscow with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he was ready to create a joint Chinese-Russian working group to develop what the Russians call the Northern Sea Route (NSR) and the Chinese the Polar Silk Road (TASS, March …

A government with many secrets is not a democracy What are we to think when governments make every effort to keep their actions secret from their own citizens? We can only conclude that although they may call themselves democracies, such governments are in fact oligarchies or dictatorships. In a democracy, …

I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 before I could say much more than “Mama” or “Dada,” in some strange fashion, I grew up at …

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said that tectonic changes took place in Kosovo and Metohija yesterday, as well as the election debacle of Aljbin Kurti and Quinta. “I didn’t accidentally say just Kurti, but all those who encouraged him and lied to themselves that the problem was in criminal Serbian organizations …