During a fundraiser for his re-election campaign Wednesday night, the president Joe Biden referred to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin using the initials “SOB”which in English means “bastard”and attacked former president Donald Trump for his comments in which he compared himself to a Russian opposition leader who died last week in an Arctic prison. Biden […]
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The number of civilian deaths in Ukraine exceeds 10,000, according to the UN
More than 10,000 civilians have died in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, and about half of the recent deaths have occurred far from the front lines, the UN Human Rights Office. The mission of human rights of the United Nations in Ukraine, which has dozens of observers in the country, said it expects […]
Poisoning, the threat that looms over Russian opponents
Natalia Arno finds it difficult to remain standing still for any length of time. Her right side goes numb, like her back or her face, since she was poisoned five months ago, like so many. activists and Russian opponents. It all happened at the beginning of May in Prague. “The door to my hotel room […]
Russia’s largest untapped copper deposit begins production
The oldest copper deposit unexploited Russia started producing copper concentrateafter a ceremony supervised by videoconference by the president Vladimir Putin. The Udokan project, in the far east of Russia, comes online at a difficult time. The United States imposed sanctions on its operator – Udokan Copper LLC – in April as part of a wave […]
India receives a divided G20, with Biden and Lula but without Xi and Putin
India will host a summit of the group of 20 major economies this weekend (G20)in which US President Joe Biden will try to take advantage of the absence of the rulers of China and Russia to foster alliances in a strongly divided bloc. Latin America will be represented by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da […]
Prigozhin’s death removes one problem for Putin, but may create new ones
The death of the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a spectacular plane crash leaves the Russian president Vladimir Putin stronger in the short term, by removing a powerful figure who had challenged his authority and threatened to make him appear weak. However, it also deprives him of a shrewd agent who had proven himself useful […]
Kremlin will seek Putin’s re-election with more than 80% of the vote in 2024
He Kremlin seeks the re-election of the Russian president, Vladimir Putinwith more than 80% of the votes in the elections to be held in March 2024, as reported today by the digital newspaper Meduza, citing official sources. “The objective that they have set for us is simple, to achieve more than 80% of the votes […]
South Africa tries to persuade Vladimir Putin not to come to economic summit
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the russian president Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit next month in South Africabut the country is trying to persuade him not to come to avoid the legal and diplomatic problems that would cause, declared the South African vice president. “It is a dilemma for us. Of course we can’t arrest him.”Vice President […]
Henry Kissinger: Putin’s survival unlikely if Ukraine wins
The president may Vladimir Putin find it difficult to stay in power if the war in Ukraine forces to Russia to abandon the military offensive and accept a peace agreement with Europesaid former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. “I would like a Russia that recognizes that its relations with Europe must be based on […]
How the war in Ukraine changed world geopolitics?
The russian invasion of Ukraine changed a year ago world orderaccelerating fractures of the globalizationand promoted its re-foundation based on a logic of blocks with Russia in the Chinese orbit and Europe in the American one. supremacy and blocks The war increased the tension and accelerated the march towards the consolidation of large blocs around […]