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Angela Merkel plays for her place in history — and Europe’s future
Angela Merkel’s return for a fourth term as German chancellor seems such a foregone conclusion, given her conservatives’ wide lead in opinion polls, that interest is mostly focused on who her coalition partner will be after the September 24 federal election. More than ever, Europeans are looking to Berlin for a lead...
Spirit of Ukraine: Traditional Festival in North London
Fantastic Ukrainian Festival is coming back to Forty Hall, Enfield. Easily accessible for Londoners, this event has earned popularity and love among Ukrainian community and those who are interested in learning about Ukrainian culture. Come to see traditional Ukrainian dancing and music, enjoy traditional food and drinks, buy souvenirs and...
Obama team was warned about Russian interference
WASHINGTON —Â The Obama administration received multiple warnings from national security officials between 2014 and 2016 that the Kremlin was ramping up its intelligence operations and building disinformation networks it could use to disrupt the U.S. political system, according to more than half a dozen current and former officials. As early as...
Moscow nominates former German leader to Rosneft board
The Russian government nominated German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as an “independent director” on the board of the country’s largest oil company, Rosneft, according to an official government statement published late Friday. Schröder — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s predecessor — is already chairman...
The problem isn’t Putin, it’s Russia
NEW YORK — The introduction of new sanctions by the United States on Russia has sent relations between the two countries to lows not seen since the end of the Cold War. Each side blames the other and claims to be seeking better relations, behaving as if the antagonism is just an undesirable, but passing, phase. But while many in the...
Why the Pope ❤ Putin
An increasingly belligerent Vladimir Putin is finding a new friend in a man of peace: Pope Francis. The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is scheduled to fly to Moscow on August 20 to meet the Russian president and Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. The four-day visit — the...
Debate: Provocative new Polish passports?
Poles are to be issued new passports to mark the 100th anniversary of the country’s independence in 2018. But the new designs for the passports proposed by the Ministry of the Interior in an online vote have already sparked protests because they include images of sites of historical significance for Poland which are located in modernday...
German liberal-conservative coalition short of parliamentary majority: poll
A coalition between Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) would fall short of a majority in parliament if federal elections were held today, according to an opinion poll published Wednesday. The conservative CDU together with its Bavarian sister party CSU remained stable compared to...
Trump NATO pick was US military’s ally on Capitol Hill
Never mind keeping the peace. America’s new ambassador to NATO once had to pretend to keep the peas. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the former United States senator from Texas who is Donald Trump’s new envoy to the military alliance, once delivered two tons of peas to American soldiers in Bosnia. Or perhaps more accurately, the peas...
Battle of the oligarchs returns to court
A classic oligarch v oligarch battle returns to court in Moscow on Tuesday (8 August), as attorneys for the telecoms-to-oil conglomerate Sistema seek again to postpone proceedings initiated by state-controlled oil giant Rosneft. The Rosneft claim concerns a mid-sized oil company called Bashneft. The company had been the subject of...
