Privately, Russian officials are furious with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected April 4 chemical weapons attack in Idlib province that killed over 80 people, Russia analysts said. They see it as threatening to sabotage the potential for US-Russia rapprochement ahead of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s first…
The United States (US) has concluded Russia knew in advance of the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week, senior official told The Associated Press (AP). The report comes as foreign minister from the G7 meet to pressure Russia to rethink it’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Last Thursday,…
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish deputy prime minister, and economy minister, said the former member of the Warsaw Pact will attempt to diversify energy imports away from Russia to reduce that country’s ability to use energy as a weapon against the Polish people. The primary alternative to Polish energy supplies will…
On of the major casualties of the disastrous Obama administration foreign policy was the loss of trust from Israel in the United States as an unwavering ally. Obama actively tried to undermine the Netanyahu government, even paying for opposition party funding before and during the poll. Obama ‘negotiated’ the Iran…
Ukraine plans to float bonds on the international market in the second half of 2017, according Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk. The former Soviet nation has been fighting a multitude of problems which has caused severe economic contraction over the last several years and an extreme devaluation of the currency. The…
The United States launched dozens of cruise missiles Thursday night at a Syrian airfield in response to what it believes was the Syrian government’s use of banned chemical weapons blamed for having killed at least 100 people on Tuesday, U.S. military officials told NBC News. Two U.S. warships in the…
After receiving approval for a $1 billion release from the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine’s central bank declared it expects another $4.5 billion from the supranational organization this year. Ukraine has been fighting endemic corruption and inefficiencies left over from Soviet times, in addition to fighting a war with pro-Russian separatists…
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says the U.S. is condemning the “reprehensible” attack on the St. Petersburg subway that killed 10 people and injured about 40. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and with the Russian people,” Spicer says the U.S. is prepared to offer assistance to…
Serbian Prime Minister Alexander Vučić announced his victory in the presidential election, saying that his win was “as clean as a tear”. Alexander Vučić defeated his opponents on Sunday, gaining more than 55% of the vote. According preliminary data, Vucic garnered about 55-59% of the vote, which will ensure his…
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov pointed to the similarity of the approaches of Russian and US leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to international relations, RIA Novosti reported. “They both insist on the priority of national interests and they are well aware that it is in their national…