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Image by Gémes Sándor/SzomSzed When the migration wave began from Northern Africa and the Middle East to Europe several years ago, Hungary realized early that the wave was not just refugees seeking shelter but an invasion which would forever alter the culture and security of Europe. As we see another…
Merkel Says Putin’s Peacekeeper Idea For Donbass Not Good Enough To Lift Sanctions.
The Zapad Military Exercise Reveals Putin’s Fear.
Moldovan Fight Continues Between President And PM.
Image by European People’s Party Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said today in Yalta that the IMF-backed independent court to fight entrenched corruption could take years to establish. However, he did say that an anti-corruption chamber (not independent from the current court system) could be set up as quick as next…
In the latest tit-for-tat retaliation in the ongoing diplomatic tension between the United States and Russia, the Kremlin has removed diplomatic parking rights for American and British diplomats in-country. Concrete protection barriers are also being removed, reported RIA Novosti news agency. The U.S. State Department confirmed the measures saying it…
After Losing Both Feet, Russian Farmer Works His Farm, Alone.
American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this week he does not want tensions with Russia to escalate further and would like to work towards better relations. The two nations have been locked in a tit-for-tat cycle of escalation since the Russian invasion of the Crimean peninsula in 2014. “I…
With Special Counsel Robert Mueller now moving into tax and money laundering issues, the Russian-Trump collusion theory having proven a dry hole, it would make sense that Congress take a look at real collusion by the Russians and American politicians over the last decade, if the current hysteria over the…