Eurasia Press & News

If there is indeed a shift in strategy to another level of confrontation with Russia, we need to know what we’re getting into. To judge by its latest statements, the Biden administration is increasingly committed to using the conflict in Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia, with as …

As calls grow for a ‘victory’ over Russia, we should examine whether such a win-lose outcome is even possible. Tell me how this ends. General David Petraeus famously posed this question at the outset of the Iraq War in 2003. In retrospect, to say that the Bush administration’s expectations for …

Declaring someone irrational leads to a place in which no one wants to negotiate, because, no one wants to talk to crazy people. A number of things about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are not in doubt: that it was a deeply criminal act; that it has been accompanied by great …

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan paved the way for the Islamist group to regain a safe haven This week marks 11 years since the death of Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaida. On May 1, 2011, US President Barack Obama announced his death, slain during a US …

On April 27, 2022, the Director of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service [SVR], Sergey Naryshkin, (whom Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) claimed that the Polish authorities are planning to take control of Ukraine. Russia has made these charges before[1] but Naryshkin now claimed that …

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might be aiming to tighten his grip on the domestic front, taking advantage of Ankara’s rising profile amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Turkish court sentencing of prominent Turkish philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala and seven other defendants on April 25 in the trial …

Baghdad’s military moves in Sinjar, coinciding with a Turkish military operation in northern Iraq, and the construction of a wall along the border with Syria have rekindled fears among the local Yazidi population. As the struggle for control in Iraq’s northwestern region of Sinjar escalates, some observers believe that Turkish …

Héros fatigué d’une gauche en déliquescence, le leader de la France insoumise veut se croire un destin. Imagine-t-on vraiment l’avenir avec Mélenchon ? A peine le danger Le Pen écarté, voici la folie Mélenchon. Animée de cette curieuse propension à flirter avec les limites, la France hésite. C’est du moins …

Заявление главного редактора «Новой газеты. Европа» по поводу блокировки сайта в России Сайт «Новой газеты. Европа» был открыт 20 апреля 2022 года. Всего через девять дней Роскомнадзор заблокировал наше издание по требованию Генеральной прокуратуры. Позднее в тот же день 29 апреля ведомство распространило информацию о том, что блокировка связана с …

Mentre cerca di capire come gestire il petrolio ed il gas che le arrivano dalla Russia, l’Unione europea si è persa in un labirinto. Ad ogni svolta sembra smarrire la strada un po’ di più, come in questi giorni con le sanzioni sul petrolio. Tutti concordano che qualcosa va fatto …