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Russia Targets Environmentalists
Frankfurt, Brussels (4/8 – 30) As the political crackdown on any form of opposition in Russia continues almost…
Russia Pounds Ukraine’s Grain, UN Warns of Hunger From Price Rises
KYIV, July 21 (Reuters) – Russia pounded Ukrainian food export facilities for a fourth day in a row…
Russia: The Drone Wars
Brussels, Frankfurt (16/6 – 33) The European Union declared late last year that it intended to investigate how…
Pakistan Government Announces Protests Over Quran Desecration In Sweden
Islamabad: The Pakistan federal government will observe Yaum-e-Taqaddus-e-Quran on Friday to hold countrywide protests against the desecration of the…
Azerbaijan a viable gateway for Malaysian firms to reach Central Asian, European markets, says envoy
Malaysian businessmen and companies have been encouraged to take advantage of Azerbaijan’s strategic location to enter markets in…
Ukraine Rejects Prabowo’s Peace Proposal
Brussels, London (6/6 – 60) Indonesian Minister of Defense and 2024 presidential candidate, Prabowo Subianto delivered a peace…
Kazakhstan’s progress faces many headwinds; the West should not be one of them
The war in the Ukraine created two main opposing camps of countries. An Alliance of Democracies on one…
Ancient Bacterial DNA Hints Europe’s Black Death Started in Central Asia
Archaeological and genetic data from a 1330s graveyard point to the bubonic plague’s origin. Although best known as…
The Geopolitics Behind Kazakhstan’s Turbulent Energy Sector
As confrontation between Russia and the West intensifies and Russia’s military ambitions grow, developments in the former Soviet…
How Putin Blundered Into Ukraine — Then Doubled Down
At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, received a troubling phone call.…