The EU has redacted the only nice thing it was planning to say about Russia from its landmark strategy paper. “Many common interests and a shared culture in fact link the EU and Russia. That is why the EU strategy aims at engaging Russia in some specific issues,” the EU had been planning to say…
Asked whether Russia was suspected as being behind the attack, a spokesman said: “It’s too early to draw conclusions, but there is a long record of Russian assaults against Ukraine.” Ukraine has been hit by a “massive cyber attack”, knocking a number of key government websites offline and issuing a warning to the public to…
MOSCOW — First U.S. and Russian diplomats faced off in Geneva. Then NATO received a Russian delegation in Brussels. Finally, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will sponsor talks in Vienna Thursday. Russia courted all this attention by massing some 100,000 troops near its border with Ukraine, raising fears of a Russian invasion….
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to reset relations with Moscow and is planning a face-to-face meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin later this month. Senior German officials were already scheduled to get together with Russian counterparts in January in a bid to ease geopolitical tensions amid rising alarm that the Kremlin is planning a further…
The United States and Germany both agree that the build-up of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border could result in major consequences. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock met in Washington on Wednesday to discuss various issues between the two countries. One critical issue was that of the increase…
Russia’s President Putin is set to bask in the global limelight as a series of high-profile conferences on security in Europe kicks off this week. What could be better for an autocratic ruler, says DW’s Bernd Riegert. Vladimir Putin must be thrilled as he gears up for a week of high-stakes diplomacy between the Kremlin…
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 2021, the world has reported more than 280 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 5.5…
Greetings from Tyler, Aren’t you glad you weren’t subjected to the zoom call between the supposed president and Vladimir Putin? The descriptions are plenty. Not that you can believe much of what’s reported in the mainstream press, but we’re assured that Putin knows he’ll really be in trouble if Ukraine is invaded. Putin is no…
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 U.S. Department of State following the talks, Ukrinform reports. The parties discussed “the importance of…
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 a military response. Putin’s demands are contained in a pair of draft treaties Russia submitted…