Category: world

NYT: The real conflict of civilizations continues in Ukraine

Although the author of the theory of such conflicts was wrong, believing that Ukraine and Russia, given Orthodoxy and some other cultural kinship, will be allies, not enemies. In 1996, political scientist Samuel Huntington proposed several strong statements about the post-Cold War world. He argued that global politics had become not just “multipolar” but “multi-civilizational.”…

Slovakia has reduced the staff of the Russian embassy by 35 people

According to Slovak media estimates, this will reduce the embassy's staff by about half. Slovak authorities have ordered the Russian embassy to cut staff by 35, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, citing the inadmissible activity of another Russian diplomat. The aim of the move is to “establish the maximum number of holders of…

European Commission calls on countries to immediately stop issuing “Golden Passports” to investors from Russia and Belarus

And also to suspend the issuance of residence permits to investors from the two countries. We must check those who have fallen under Western sanctions or those who support the war in Ukraine. The European Commission has issued a recommendation calling on EU countries to immediately abolish all schemes for granting citizenship to investors and…

10 of Russia's 20 richest oligarchs did not fall under sanctions – Bloomberg

Only three Russian oligarchs are on all sanctions lists. Western countries have not imposed sanctions against half of Russia's 20 richest citizens in connection with Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Bloomberg reports . An analysis of the European Union's sanctions against the United States and the United Kingdom showed that London imposed sanctions against 10…

Poland plans to abandon Russian oil by the end of the year, the prime minister said

Moravetsky criticized Moscow for “energy blackmail.” In April-May 2022, Poland plans to completely abandon Russian coal , and by the end of the year – from oil from Russia. This was stated during a press conference by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. “Despite the fact that there is no consent from the European Commission, we…

In the midst of the war in Ukraine, Trump is asking Putin to compromise Biden

But 47% of Americans would like to see him head of state again. Amid the bloody war , former US President Donald Trump is asking Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to… No, not stop the war and destroy Ukraine – to publish compromising information on incumbent President Joe Biden and his family. And this misfortune, as…

WSJ: The war in Ukraine has shown that a world order based on rules is a myth

There are no global threats or standards, there is only a regional balance that needs to be constantly maintained. The Joe Biden administration has loudly called for the protection of something called “international order-based order.” But such a thing does not exist. There is no planetary scale of space in the management of common rules…