Last week, the United States and European Union allowed the sending of interest earned from Russia’s frozen capital in the EU to Ukraine. This was intended to help Ukraine pay off a loan of US$20 billion it has secured from the West, and is an issue we discussed in some detail here. Both US […]
The United States and European Union have green-lit a decision to pass interest earned by Russian securities frozen in the US and EU to Ukraine, to use in order to repay a US$20 billion loan. We examine the implications and the potential global fallout over this unprecedented financial development. The Total Amount Due The US
Zimbabwe is looking for Russian assistance to build its own spaceport and send its first astronaut into orbit within the next decade, according to Painos Gweme, the director of Zimbabwe’s National Geospatial and Space Agency (ZINGSA). Gweme has stated that Zimbabwe has begun negotiations with Russia’s national spaceflight corporation, Roscosmos, about planned projects, including sending
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Russia is taking a ‘wait and see’ response to the situation in Syria, where its wheat supplies are amongst the countries largest. Syria imports about 2 million tons of Russian wheat per annum. Disruption of Russian wheat supplies could risk mass hunger in the country, which has a population of over 23 million people, with
The deposed Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad has arrived in Moscow with his family and has been granted asylum on ‘humanitarian’ grounds. Syrian militants, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which has connections with Al-Queda, have apparently taken control of the country, although the situation remains fluid. Moscow has called for the resumption of
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PJSC Positive Group, the parent company of Russian cybersecurity group Positive Technologies, has signed a distribution agreement with Mideast Communication Systems (MCS), a Cairo-based provider of cybersecurity solutions in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East and Africa. The partnership will focus on sharing cybersecurity expertise and jointly promoting products and services in the
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The American journalist Tucker Carlson has interviewed the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. We provide the text and analysis to the responses, which cover wide ranging areas such as the Ukraine conflict, Hypersonic weapons, US-Russia discussion channels, Alexander Navalny, Asset freezing, Sanctions, NATO, China, Syria, Israel, Donald Trump, the prospect of Nuclear war
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Implications for EU politicians sanctioning and demonizing Russia South Korea has been unexpectedly plunged into political turmoil, with the military called out to intervene after its President, Yoon Suk Yeol, issued a national order declaring martial law in the country. Yoon had blamed North Korean infiltrators for creating a state of emergency. In reality, martial
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Russia’s pivot to Asia has taken on a new security dimension with the escalation of violence in Syria, where the government has come under attack from the Jabhat al-Nusra extremist group, its allies, and carried out a major attack on Aleppo and other settlements in northern Syria that were under the protection of the Syrian
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The Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has met with Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, Niger’s Transitional Prime Minister, and with Abdourahamane Tiani, head of Niger’s ruling National Council for the Defense of the Homeland in Niger’s capital, Niamey. Niger has been badly affected in recent years by significant security issues, mostly related to the rise
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