One of the reasons the blow up between Russia and Turkey did not last very long is that both sides realized the economic cost of bad relations was too much to bear. Turkey lost billions on tourism and farm exports. Russia lost a chance to move hydrocarbons around Ukraine. The…
With a half-million protesters in the streets of Bucharest on the sixth day of public anger, the largest demonstrations since the end of communism, the left of center government of Romania vowed today to stay in power. However, there were signs of weakened support for the revision of the anti-corruption…
The former Soviet republic of Latvia will dismantle the last of Soviet missile silos in the northeast of the country, reports the online portal, Delfi. The Dvina R-12 Missile Compound houses four silos that will be dismantled and the land used for other purposes. They shafts are 32 meters deep….
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow imposed an embargo on food imports from the European Union only in order to prevent unfair competition. In an interview with Austrian magazine Profil Lavrov said that under European sanctions it is difficult for Russian banks to obtain loans to finance the…
Russian businessman Aleksej Gubarev has filed a US lawsuit against the online media company, BuzzFeed, that published a document stating the Russian special services collected dirt on the president of the United States, Donald Trump. The lawsuit was filed in the state of Florida. Aleksej Gubarev, CEO of XBT Holding,…
Romania’s government scrapped a contentious corruption decree Sunday in a climbdown after the biggest mass demonstrations since the fall of communism, but protests still raged on for a sixth straight day Read more: Romanian Protests Rage On Romanian Government Scraps Anti-Graft Decree Amid Protests
The newly elected president of the United States finally called Petro Pororshenko, president of Ukraine. Trump has made multiple, very public comments regarding his desire to improve relations with Ukraine’s arch nemesis, the Russian Federation. It is telling that Trump waited almost a week before speaking to Poroshenko after calling…