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Trump: ‘Appropriate’ for Russia to return to G-7
Russia should be part of the Group of Seven again, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, suggesting that President Barack Obama pushed the country out because he didn’t like that President Vladimir Putin had “outsmarted” him. Russia was suspended from what was then known as the G-8 — representing the world’s most industrialized and...
Macron, Putin seek solution on Ukraine, clash over Syria and protests
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin raised the possibility of new negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine, but clashed on Syria and domestic protests, when they met in France on Monday. The meeting, the seventh bilateral since Macron took office in 2017, was part of a larger effort by the two...
Trump’s German frenemy
BERLIN — When word spread earlier this year that Germany’s most important transatlantic lobbying group planned to nominate Sigmar Gabriel, a prominent Russia-friendly socialist, as its next leader, many in the German capital thought it was a bad joke. Largely unknown outside of Germany, Atlantik Brücke (German for Atlantic Bridge) was...
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[Ticker] Poland warns Europe on Russia
EU states would be wrong to “warm up” Russia relations because it was still waging war in Ukraine, Poland’s deputy foreign minister Marcin Przydacz told Reuters on Thursday. “There is no reason to invite Russian leaders to different parties or dances together,” he said, alluding to an episode last year, when the then...
[Ticker] Swine flu spreads in eastern Europe
According to the European Commission’s Animal Disease Notification System, several outbreaks of African Swine Flu have occurred in Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine, originating in Bulgaria. The country’s deputy agriculture minister admitted that Bulgaria failed to contain the disease. Experts say it might lose its...
King Macron’s unsteady EU crown
SAINT-RÉMY-DE-PROVENCE, France — Emmanuel Macron wants to be king and savior of Europe. But his vigorous pursuit of a sovereign EU defending its interests on the global stage with the United States, China, Russia and India has yielded few tangible gains in his first two years in power. With German Chancellor Angela Merkel weakened by domestic...
The Biden family’s strange business history
The day the Bidens took over Paradigm Global Advisors was a memorable one. In the late summer of 2006 Joe Biden’s son Hunter and Joe’s younger brother, James, purchased the firm. On their first day on the job, they showed up with Joe’s other son, Beau, and two large men and ordered the hedge fund’s chief of compliance to...
Six minutes is the twinkling of an eye | Novoye Vremya – Ukraine
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Hungary defends decision to allow transit of Russian military shipment
The Hungarian government on Wednesday defended its decision allow the transit of Russian military vehicles through its airspace in spite of EU sanctions. Russia has delivered 10 armored patrol vehicles to a military base in Serbia, part of a broader military assistance package for the Balkan country, with the plane transporting the cargo passing...
Debate: Estonia: diplomats in difficulties?
Matti Maasikas, a leading Estonian diplomat and the country’s new ambassador to Ukraine, questioned the foreign policy stance of the new government in Tallinn on Twitter last week and pointed out that Estonian diplomats were having difficulties explaining the policies of the conservative-far-right coalition government. His comments have...
