The opposition in Belarus has called for a general strike, after tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the capital Minsk for the biggest rally in the...
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August 7, 2020, marks 12 years since Russia’s military aggression and subsequent occupation of Georgian territories in August 2008. Although the massive armed...
Alexander Lukashenko’s goose looks to be well and truly cooked. For the former chicken farmer who has run Belarus with a mixture of tough love and outright repression...
With Nord Stream 2 still incomplete, Poland fines Gazprom 48 million euros for ‘lack of cooperation’
The Polish anti-monopoly watchdog UOKiK has fined Russian energy giant Gazprom 213 million Polish złoty (48 million euros) over a lack of cooperation in its proceedings...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has long been dubbed “Europe’s last dictator”. The epithet is not entirely true, not least as Vladimir Putin in...
The enormous financial means that West Germany is still transferring to East Germany, 30 years after re-unification, suggest that Moscow’s grab of Crimea in 2014 has...
While the whole world was shocked by negative West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices due to the shortage of demand during the Covid-19 lockdown, the gas market...
People in Belarus are voting with their feet and staying at home in order to mitigate the further spread of Covid-19. The country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, has...
On Saturday, Russia marked Victory Day with an air force parade broadcast by major TV networks, fireworks and many events across the country. Although Russia has the...
Amid the global outbreak of the new coronavirus, several undemocratic countries have been trying to take advantage of the crisis and depict themselves as accountable...
Article 56 of the Geneva Convention makes it clear that an occupying state is obliged to ensure and maintain satisfactory healthcare and hygiene conditions in occupied...
Mikheil Saakashvili, the exiled former president of Georgia, is set to return to frontline politics in Ukraine having been nominated by the country’s president...