1. COVID-19 continues to rage For a second year the COVID-19 pandemic has raged, with more severe waves of infection causing more losses following the emergence of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: Delta and Omicron. At the end of … Read More
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a New Year greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. The report was carried in Russia’s Tass News. “In that telegram he expressed great satisfaction with the development of … Read More
MOSCOW (AP) — More than 87,500 people with COVID-19 died in Russia in November, the highest montly tally since the start of the pandemic, the state statistics agency reported Thursday. A report by Rosstat brought the overall number of virus-linked … Read More
US President Joe Biden has told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the United States will “respond decisively” if Russia further invades Ukraine. President Joe Biden said that the US and its allies would “respond decisively” if Russia further invaded Ukraine, in … Read More
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke over the phone with the top diplomats of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to discuss a joint response to Russia’s actions. That’s according to an official statement released by the … Read More
Russia has called for a “thorough international investigation” into allegations of abuses by Poland of migrants and refugees who have been trying to cross its border from Belarus. The Russian demand comes in response to claims made by a Polish … Read More
Gazprom, Russia’s giant state-owned energy company, is slated to finalize an agreement in 2022 for a second huge natural gas pipeline running from Siberia to China, marking yet another stage in what energy analysts and Western diplomats say is a … Read More
President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that if NATO does not provide binding guarantees to curtail military deployments in Eastern Europe and to bar Ukraine from membership in the alliance, he will be forced to consider a variety of options, including … Read More
New Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht visits German troops in Lithuania. Germany’s new Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said Sunday that NATO allies were willing to discuss a raft of demands put forward by Russia, which has massed troops along the Ukrainian … Read More
The relations between the European Union (EU)–Russia persistently provoke hostility as illustrated by the natural gas crisis across Europe in October and November, and now the deployment of forces by Russia at the Ukraine border. The West has labelled Russia’s … Read More