March, 2023

• 5 March

  Russian Defense Minister Visits Ukraine

  

  Russia’s defense minister visited Russian soldiers in Ukraine on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement on the messaging app Telegram that Sergei Shoigu “inspected the forward command post of one of the formations of the Eastern Military District in the South Donetsk direction.” Shoigu has been criticized for Russia’s …

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• 5 March

  How Quickly The West Forgot It Was Their 2020 Regime-Change Project That Drove Belarus Into Russia’s Arms – OpEd

  

  Is Russia preparing a 2nd offensive against Ukraine from Belarus? Belarus’ role as a partner with Russia in this war keeps staying in the headlines. What’s lost in these stories is how strange and impossible it would’ve been just a couple years ago to imagine Russia being able to use …

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• 5 March

  The World’s First Horse Riders

  

  Researchers discovered evidence of horse riding by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans, which were between 4500-5000 years old. The earthen burial mounds belonged to the Yamnaya culture. The Yamnayans had migrated from the Pontic-Caspian steppes to find greener pastures in today´s countries of …

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• 5 March

  Iran Promises To Cooperate With UN Nuclear Watchdog, Joint Statement Says After Grossi Visit

  

  Iran has vowed to cooperate with the UN’s nuclear watchdog to resolve outstanding issues after inspections reportedly showed that Tehran had enriched uranium to near nuclear-weapons grade, a joint statement from both sides said. “Iran expressed its readiness to…provide further information and access to address the outstanding safeguards issues,” a …

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• 5 March

  Bahrain Prosecutes Religious Reformers: Traditionalists Fight Back – Analysis

  

  Gulf autocrats are trying to squash calls for reform of Islamic law with three Bahraini men on trial. Redha Rajab, his son Mohamed Rajab, and researcher Jalal al-Qassab are members of the Al-Tajdeed Society, which encourages discussion and questioning of Islamic law. They’re accused of violating articles 309 and 310 …

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• 5 March

  Israel Under Attack: Biden’s Coup to Get Iran the Bomb

  

  “U.S. support for demonstrations in Tel Aviv isn’t about the future of Israel’s judiciary. It’s about handcuffing Israel while Iran gets the bomb.” — Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine, March 2, 2023. In reality, Iran’s mullahs will most likely blackmail the Biden Administration for billions of dollars not to use their …

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• 5 March

  La réunion de Valdai : L’Asie occidentale à la rencontre de la multipolarité

  

  Lors de la réunion du Club Valdaï en Russie – la réponse de l’Est à Davos – des intellectuels et des personnalités influentes se sont réunis pour définir les développements actuels et futurs de l’Asie occidentale. La 12ème « Conférence sur le Moyen-Orient », qui s’est tenue au Club Valdaï …

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• 5 March

  Vučić authorized himself: Why do the president and the prime minister negotiate on behalf of Belgrade and Pristina, and not the prime minister and the prime minister?

  

  Negotiations on the Kosovo issue have been going on for years, and since he came to power, they have been led by President Aleksandar Vučić. On the other hand, Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti is negotiating on behalf of Kosovo. This raises the question of why the dialogue between Belgrade and …

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• 5 March

  In Serbia, the image of the President of Russia is being demystified: are the days of Putin’s halo in the Balkans numbered?

  

  For more than a year, Serbia has been calculating the (non)introduction of sanctions against Russia, which has recently been shown to be a maneuver that the current government is seriously reconsidering, writes Oslobođenje . It also seems that public opinion is slowly giving way to the “Russophile euphoria”, and that …

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• 5 March

  US, SDF capture, kill ISIS leaders in Syria helicopter raids

  

  An ISIS leader was killed and another captured during joint helicopter raids in Syria, following deadly attacks on truffle hunters in the desert. Helicopter-borne US troops working with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday (February 18) captured an “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) provincial official in Syria, …

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