Europe

Kiev is a very large and very beautiful city, tidy, and clean, with churches, ancient buildings, others of clear Soviet imprint, and finally very modern skyscrapers. I arrived on Saturday 17 August at 5.30 in the morning, after the driver,…

I reported a conversation yesterday afternoon with a friend from Rome: “Hi Mauro, but wasn’t there a Russian attack on Kiev last night? Did you hear the bombings? Were you afraid?” “My mother-in-law used to say: “Tempo de guera più…

Spending the last weeks in the Western Balkans, trying to understand trends and tensions in the region on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the Dayton Agreement and its ratification in Paris and the celebration of 11 July as…

The presence of Polish, French, British and American soldiers in the Ukrainian-Otanian offensive on the Russian region of Kursk would be a confirmation of NATO’s entry into open conflict with Putin’s Russia, which according to the Russian nuclear doctrine, would…

A Tipping Point Has Been Reached In Ukraine Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its “Special Military Operation”, has reached a tipping point. It is now being acknowledged, even by many Western mainstream news outlets, that Ukraine is in a dire and…

The Baloch National Movement’s Netherlands chapter held its third general body elections named in honor of Shaheed Fida Ahmed, in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands. The elections were attended by the chairman of the Baloch National Movement, Dr…

Editor’s note: Grzegorz W. Kolodko is a former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Poland, professor of political economy at Kozminski University in Warsaw, and distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School at Beijing Normal University, and the author…

Thanks to the influence of political leaders in Hungary and Slovakia, alternative voices from Ukraine are increasingly being heard in Europe who, unlike Zelensky and his government representatives, are not asking for financial aid or arms supplies, but for help…

On a warm sunny day last week in Pavlovsk, the former Russian imperial residence, an orchestra was playing Strauss waltzes in front of the former imperial palace. The event commemorated the inauguration of a concert hall, the vokzal, in 1838.…

Aid groups and migrants are mobilizing to provide social services and block the eviction of the most vulnerable people in Paris ahead of the Olympics. With the approach of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, organizers and aid groups are working…