February, 2023

• 14 February

  Lavrov u čestitki Dačiću: Rusija spremna za dalji svestrani razvoj odnosa sa Srbijom

  

  Ministar spoljnih poslova Rusije Sergej Lavrov potvrdio je spremnost Moskve za dalji svestrani razvoj odnosa sa Srbijom u čestitki šefu srpske diplomatije Ivici Dačiću povodom 185. godišnjice uspostavljanja diplomatskih odnosa dve zemlje. U čestitki koju je Dačiću danas uručio ambasador Rusije u Beogradu Aleksandar Bocan-Harčenko, Lavrov je izrazio uverenje „da …

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• 14 February

  Oglasio se Dačić povodom tvrdnji da srpski državljani planiraju subverziju u Moldaviji

  

  Ministar spoljnih poslova Srbije Ivica Dačić negirao je izjavu predsednice Moldavije Maje Sandu o mogućem učešću građana Srbije u subverzivnim akcijama u cilju destabilizacije Moldavije, prenosi Tanjug. „Zahtevamo da organi Moldavije hitno dostave svaku informaciju koju poseduju, jer mi do sada nismo nikada dobili takvo obaveštenje iz Moldavije“, naveo je …

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• 14 February

  Hundreds Of Thousands March In Madrid And Paris On Healthcare, Working Condition And Pension Reform Issue

  

  Hundreds of thousands of people joined in rallies in Spain and France on issues of healthcare and pension reform. Madrid Media reports said: Around 250,000 people marched through the streets of Madrid on Sunday demanding that the Spanish government increase the country’s health care budget, improve working conditions and expand …

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• 14 February

  Stop Arming Ukraine, Calls Manifesto For Peace: Quarter Of A Million Sign Petition

  

  A quarter of a million people have signed an online petition urging German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop increasing the flow of weapons to Ukraine and to push for a peaceful resolution of the conflict instead. The petition, started on change.org by German politician Sahra Wagenknecht and journalist Alice Schwarzer, …

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• 14 February

  Giving RAF Typhoons to Ukraine Would Be a Very Expensive Symbolic Gesture

  

  No options should be ruled out when it comes to helping Ukraine. But the idea of transferring UK fighter aircraft makes little military sense. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has asked the Ministry of Defence to provide options for gifting RAF fighter aircraft to Ukraine to help the country defend …

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• 14 February

  Crimea Is a Powder Keg

  

  Whether the Ukraine war brings on a global catastrophe will hinge in large part on whether Washington decides to back a Ukrainian effort to retake the Crimean peninsula. The greatest threat of nuclear catastrophe that humanity has ever faced is now centered on the Crimean peninsula. In recent months, the …

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• 14 February

  What Russia Got Wrong

  

  Can Moscow Learn From Its Failures in Ukraine? Three months before Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, CIA Director William Burns and U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan met in Moscow with Nikolai Patrushev, an ultra-hawkish adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Burns and Sullivan informed Patrushev that they knew of …

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• 14 February

  From Bad to Worse in Cameroon?

  

  As President Paul Biya turns ninety this week, an escalating power struggle for his position leaves most Cameroonians with little to celebrate. Journalism has long been a dangerous profession in Cameroon, but 2023 has been especially deadly. Just days after the body of muckraking reporter Martinez Zogo was found with …

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• 14 February

  Friends in Need

  

  What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Alliances NATO was created to prevent a major war in Europe, a task it accomplished well for many decades. Apart from the brief Kosovo war in 1999, its members never had to fight together or coordinate a joint response to aggression—until a …

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• 14 February

  The Cult of Secrecy

  

  America’s Classification Crisis In August 2016, the United States suffered one of the most cataclysmic leaks of classified information in history. An anonymous entity calling itself “the Shadow Brokers” exposed an arsenal of cyberweapons that had been developed—in great secrecy—by the National Security Agency. The intelligence community sprang into damage-control …

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