Image by Ziko Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov has informed Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland that Russia will no longer pay its dues to the council until Russia’s rights are fully restored. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the issue Friday. “The minister has…
According to the White House The United States (US) Vice President Mike Pence will pay a visit to Estonia, Georgia, and Montenegro in July 30-August 2, 2017. In Georgia, the Vice President will meet with President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili. He will also visit U.S. and Georgian…
Image by AwOiSoAk KaOsIoWa A wildfire broke out near the entombed Chernobyl reactor Thursday, endangered a nuclear waste storage site in the exclusion zone, and spiked radiation levels to 2.5 times the average level. “According to a radiation survey data, radiation levels measured in the wildfire area at 19:00 on…
Image by Italo-Europeo Ukraine has filed an appeal to the London Court in the case of the $3 billion bond sold to Russia prior to the Euromaidan revolution in 2014. At the time, Viktor Yanykovych was president of Ukraine and put aside a trade deal with the European Union in…
Image by Podluzhnaya Ukrainian authorities have arrested suspects believed involved in the assassination of former Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov who was gunned down leaving a club in kyiv earlier in the year. In a statement on June 16, the National Police said that “investigative steps” including searches and detentions were…
Image by Ethereum Foundation Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought out and met with Bitcoin’s primary competitor, Ethereum, to discuss a possible crypto-currency for Russia. The Kremlin is looking to diversify Russia’s economy away from hydrocarbons and blockchain technology seems to be a focus. “The digital economy isn’t a separate…
Image by Ivanaivanova “Loveless,” a new film about the failed institutions in and of the Russian state, couldn’t be more timely. And since it comes from Andrey Zvyagintsev — whose 2014 drama “Leviathan” was a subtle but blistering indictment of his country’s government — you could be forgiven for reading…
Image by Ermanarich After U.S. forces shot down a Syrian drone and attacked pro-regime forces that had crossed a deconfliction line, it seems Russian military officials calmed the situation and prevented a larger fight erupting between American and Syrian forces. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said as much during a…
Image by Rei-artur Bugaria’s Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva says the nation wants to be free from EU monitoring of its judicial reforms by 2018. She said internal reforms will be completed by the end of that year and the monitoring “can’t go on forever.” On a visit to Bucharest, Romania,…
Image by Mstyslav Chernov The interior minister for the Czech Republic, Milan Chovanec, said on Monday that the nation will not take any more refugees past the 16 they have already resettled in-country. He stated this decision is final in spite of any financial sanctions the European Union may impose…