Electricity Supply Cut Off to Luhansk In Donbass
Electricity Supply Cut Off to Luhansk In Donbass.
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Electricity Supply Cut Off to Luhansk In Donbass.
The U.S. commanding general in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis by his side, gave a briefing in-country where they accused Russia of providing weapons to the Taliban to attack American-backed, Afgan forces in the country. Associated Press reported, “Earlier Monday, a senior U.S. military official told…
The Democratic Party is not withdrawing from its request to establish a caretaker government, since boycotting elections and parliament. Today, they organized a peaceful protest by blocking the main axes of state roads from the south to the north of Albania. Democratic Party leader, Lulzim Basha, led the protest by…
Russian Soldier Killed By Knife Attack In Armenia.
The Kremlin increased military spending in 2016 to become the 3rd largest spender, despite a lagging economy due to Western sanctions and the collapse of the price of crude oil on global markets. Military expeditures rose for the second consecutive year to over $69 billion. The Stockholm International Peace Research…
Hungarian President Janos Ader signed into law a bill that detractors accuse of targeting Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, established by Leftist billionaire George Soros after the fall of the Iron Curtain in the 1990s. The bill forces any education institution to close if it does not have a…
Russia Wants To Extend Oil Production Cuts As Oil Price Sinks.
Ukrainian authorities have arrested a former lawmaker and deputy head of the state-owned gas company, Naftogaz, in an anti-corruption sting, run by the National Anti-corruption Bureau, or NABU. The country has spent a lot of resources setting up the new investigative body to root out the corruption from the former…
Serb Officials Warn Of Another War In The Balkans.