Eurasia Press & News

Russia is continuing a slow but steady military buildup near its border with Ukraine. As new CSIS satellite imagery analysis shows, there has recently been a 17 percent increase in the number of military structures used for storage and billeting troops outside the Russian town of Yelnya, home of the …

Western intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that the Russian president wants to take control of a larger swath of territory. American intelligence officials are warning allies that there is a short window of time to prevent Russia from taking military action in Ukraine, pushing European countries to work with the …

The U.S. has shared intelligence including maps with European allies that shows a buildup of Russian troops and artillery to prepare for a rapid, large-scale push into Ukraine from multiple locations if President Vladimir Putin decided to invade, according to people familiar with the conversations. That intelligence has been conveyed …

Russia’s defense chief on Tuesday signed a roadmap for closer military ties with China, pointing to increasingly frequent U.S. strategic bomber flights near both countries’ borders. During a video call, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe “expressed a shared interest in stepping up strategic military exercises …

The Kremlin has gone on a verbal offensive amid Western concerns over its military buildup near Ukraine, while stressing the importance of an unconfirmed Russian-U.S. presidential summit Moscow says is in the works. The Kremlin responded harshly on November 21 to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying a day …

– Trzeba czynić wszystko, by Polska była tym, czym jest dziś Turcja – mówił Jarosław Kaczyński w 2014 r. Turcja prężyła wtedy muskuły w wymiarze militarnym i ekonomicznym. Od 2010 r. jej PKB rósł w tempie 4,8–11,2 proc. rocznie. Dziś prezes PiS pewnie połknąłby język, nim powtórzyłby tamte słowa. Co …

Masse statt Klasse, Förderung für große statt für kleine Unternehmen: Alles bleibt beim Alten, doch zumindest streitet die EU nicht mehr über die Agrarreform. Die ist nichts weiter als eine verpasste Chance. Europas neue Agrarpolitik: eine Reform ohne Reform. Nichts da mit Meilenstein, Schritt in die Zukunft oder richtungsweisend. Wer …

Poland says groups of migrants have made new attempts to illegally cross the border from Belarus, and warned against interpreting recent moves by Minsk to repatriate some of the migrants as a de-escalation of the crisis on the European Union’s eastern frontier. The Polish officials issued the warning on November …

In today’s environment of growing US-China competition, America’s allies are increasingly faced with a series of what international relations authority Dr. Victor Cha calls “binary choices” between the two powers. “Open competition in relations between the United States and China has dramatically changed the environment in which the US must …

As Russia/Nato passions are stirring once again, we should wind the clock back to seven years ago when the Ukraine crisis began. What’s it all about? The demonstrators in the Maidan, the central square of the capital, Kiev, were motivated by the arguments over a trade agreement with the EU, …