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Russian president slams West’s double standards toward Yemen
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has criticized the double standards of Western states and the US toward Yemen. According to IRIB World Service, in an address to reporters at the end of his talks with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Moscow on Sunday, the Russian president termed as unacceptable the US double standards toward...
Hegemony in the Making: Germany on the Way to Becoming a Political Giant
Germany on the Way to Becoming a Political Giant Rainer Rilling(Translation by Eric Canepa) Germany is an economic giant but a political dwarf. Ever since the run-up to the First World War, this thesis has been firmly established in the conservative camp and it remains the basic assumption of a century of German foreign and security policy. In...
Germany calls for peaceful solution to end east Ukraine conflict
Russian president Vladimir Putin has accused the West of pursuing double standard. Putin went on to say that applying the Minsk agreement will be hard, but Russia and Germany need to work together to influence all parties to help end the conflict. He supported the idea that only the OSCE will be able to apply the MINSK agreement in eastern...
Merkel urges cooperation after missing Russian WWII victory parade
MOSCOW — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday paid tribute to Soviet soldiers killed in WWII as she called for cooperation with Russia amid tensions over Ukraine. Merkel flew to Moscow to lay a wreath at the grave of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin walls, in an apparent compromise gesture after she skipped...
Russia, Germany agree diplomacy key Ukraine peace
Russian President Putin and German Chancellor Merkel have agreed in Moscow that the Minsk deal is the only way to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: World...
Russia, Germany agree diplomacy key to peace in Ukraine
Russian President Putin and German Chancellor Merkel have agreed in Moscow that the Minsk deal is the only way to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Merkel says ‘still no ceasefire’ in east Ukraine
Putin for his part said he and Merkel did not see eye to eye on the Ukraine crisis but pointed to an improvement on the ground. …read more Source: Muscat...
No genuine ceasefire in eastern Ukraine: Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there is no genuine ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Attending Moscow WWII memorial, Merkel says ‘still no ceasefire’ in east Ukraine
‘We significantly differ in our assessments of the events,’ Putin retorts …read more Source:...
Special Report: Russian soldiers quit over Ukraine
Some Russian soldiers are quitting the army because of the conflict in Ukraine, several soldiers and human rights activists have told Reuters. Their accounts call into question the Kremlin’s continued assertions that no Russian soldiers have been sent to Ukraine, and that any Russians fighting alongside rebels there are volunteers. Evidence...
