Russia has seized a Venezuelan oil tanker, the NS Columbus, in the Caribbean and is attempting to garnish oil delivered to storage facility on St. Eustatius, an island near St Maarten. The Russian shipping company Sovcomflot successfully prosecuted a case against the Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA in a St. Maarten…
The Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s External Church Relations Department, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), stated recently that the Orthodox and Catholic churches should be allies rather than rivals, and work to protect Christianity around the world, and its values. However, he said it was too early to discuss reunification of the…
Lithuania has been providing political support and practical assistance to the Euro-Atlantic integration of Georgia for a long time. On April 12 Georgian and Lithuanian Defense Ministers Levan Izoria and Raimundas Karoblis addressed the security situation in the Baltic and South Caucasian regions and the reform of the…
Early expectations of an easy rapport between the Trump administration and Russia are crashing into reality as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has a fraught meeting in Moscow beset by escalating allegations over Syria. The first Trump Cabinet official to visit Russia, Tillerson is on a thus-far-futile mission to…
Tonight U.S.Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson makes his first official visit to Moscow, but Russian President Vladimir Putin may not find time to see Washington’s top diplomat tête-à-tête. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri Peskov was certainly not happy when asked if the president will meet Tillerson. “We have announced no meetings…
On The Elections Three candidates – current President Leonid Tibiliov, parliament speaker and the leader of the United Ossetia party Anatoly Bibilov, and State Security Committee officer Alan Gagloyev are competing for the presidential office of De Facto Tskhinlvali prior to the elections on April 9, 2017 …
The Russian Minister of Economic Development, Maxim Oreshkin, said last week that the Kremlin expects the price of crude oil to weaken again to the $40 area and stay there. “The basic precondition from the standpoint of oil price is that oil prices will drop to $40 per barrel in…
After experiencing a steady increase over the last year from its low of 80 to the USD to a high of 56, the Russian ruble sank on international exchanges after yesterday’s airstrike on Syria by the Trump administration of the United States. Upon writing this article, the ruble was trading…
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian support for Syrian President Bashar Assad is not unconditional. The chemical weapons attack against defenseless civilians, including many children and babies in Iblib, Syria, has galvanized the world against the Shia leader of the Levant. “Unconditional support is not possible in this current…
April 2 marks election of Aleksandar Vucic as president of Serbia. Part of Serbians have refused to accept Vucic’s presidential election victory after he won 55 per cent of votes, almost 40 per cent more than the former ombudsman Sasa Jankovic who came second in the poll. The…