Erdogan urges Turks to not buy French goods as companies brace for boycott by Muslim nations Turkey’s president has urged his compatriots to “never” buy French products amid the ongoing row over Paris’ hardened stance on radical Islam. 26.10.2020
Ukraine will build a new Sevastopol A significant event for Ukraine, the report of President Zelensky on the work done before the Rada deputies, made a depressing impression on many. 25.10.2020
Erdogan says Macron needs ‘mental health treatment’ and doesn’t understand freedom of religion Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron of “mistreating” millions of Muslims after officials announced a crackdown on radical mosques and Islamic extremism across France. 24.10.2020
Trump touts ‘really good progress’ at Armenia-Azerbaijan talks in Washington as shelling in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh intensifies Even as US President Donald Trump praised the “progress” made in talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan, air raid sirens sounded over Stepanakert in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, heralding another round of artillery bombardment. 23.10.2020
Turkey slams declaration by Cyprus, Greece & Egypt condemning Ankara’s ‘provocations’ in E. Mediterranean Ankara has denounced the “baseless accusations” in the statement of the leaders of Cyprus, Greece, and Egypt on its work in the Eastern Mediterranean. 22.10.2020
Pashinyan urged the Armenian people to take up arms and defend Karabakh Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on the country's residents to pick up weapon [ https://en. 21.10.2020
The fall of the defense in the south of Nagorno-Karabakh was expected For three weeks, journalists and authors of numerous jingoistic domestic and Armenian military-analytical portals, blogs and "Telegram" -channels continued to blindly report exclusively on successful defensive actions, and sometimes local "counter-offensive attacks" of mechanized units of the Army of Armenia and the Nagorno AO -Karabakh Republic in the vicinity of the settlements of Jabrayil, Hadrut and Fizuli, referring exclusively to the data provided under the appropriate sauce by the Armenian and Karabakh official sources (central media, as well as the representative of the RA Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan). 20.10.2020
Armenia & Azerbaijan declare ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ in Nagorno-Karabakh starting Sunday Armenia, Azerbaijan, and forces of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh have all agreed to stop fighting for “humanitarian reasons” after dozens of civilians have died in the latest flare-up over the disputed region. 19.10.2020
Life on loan: which countries of the post-Soviet space have the most debts The world is on the verge of a real debt pit. 18.10.2020
Paris Suburb Decapitation: Suspect Was Born in Moscow, But Officially Lived in France for 12 Years French President Emmanuel Macron has described the murder as an "Islamist terrorist attack", saying the teacher, who taught history and geography at the College du Bois d’Aulne was killed because he "taught freedom of expression". 17.10.2020
US threatens ‘serious consequences’ if Turkey puts into operation its Russian S-400 missile systems The US State Department has warned the Turkish government of “potential serious consequences” to the two nations’ security relationship should reports of Ankara testing the Russian S-400 air defense systems prove true. 16.10.2020
‘I am not holding on to power’: Kyrgyz President Jeenbekov resigns after a chaotic October of post-election turmoil & protests Kyrgyzstan’s President Sooronbay Jeenbekov announced on Thursday that he will resign, after ten days of civil unrest, explaining that he wishes to see the end of violence on the streets of the country’s capital, Bishkek. 15.10.2020
Lavrov Calls for Deployment of Russian Peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh as Tensions Escalate Earlier in the day, the Armenian Defence Ministry said that it "reserves the right" to attack any military facility in Azerbaijan after saying that Baku had hit military equipment on Armenian territory. 14.10.2020
‘Time to stop the war’: Talks are ultimately only way to resolve bitter Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenian president tells RT The war over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, which “never stopped” after a six-year conflict paused in the 1990s, must end and measures to ensure peace between Yerevan and Baku need to be put in place, Armenia’s president has told RT. 13.10.2020
‘Russia came to save Armenia’: Azeri President Aliyev tells Yerevan it should thank Putin for ‘once again’ coming to its rescue Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has called on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for saving his country. 12.10.2020
Coronavirus billions. Whom did the pandemic enrich and how? The COVID-19 epidemic that has hit the world has caused completely unprecedented damage to the absolute majority of sectors of its economy. 11.10.2020
Kim Jong-un says socialism saved North Korea from Covid-19, with not a single person infected Kim Jong-un has credited the country's socialist system with supposedly protecting North Koreans from the Covid-19 pandemic, saying not a single case of the devastating global disease has been registered in his country. 10.10.2020
Europe surpasses daily Covid-19 tally peak reached in spring, with 100,000 new infections recorded for first time More than 100,000 new Covid cases have been reported across Europe in one 24-hour period for the first time, as the continent struggles with the second wave of the virus and many nations record their highest-ever infection rates. 09.10.2020
LDNR: course towards deindustrialization Heavy topic You can treat the local authorities in Donetsk and Lugansk with understanding as much as you like, who are now hostages of the situation, if not for their desperate attempts to hush up real and very sensitive problems, periodically imitating the happiness of “good News [ https://en. 08.10.2020
Kyrgyzstan. What was prepared for Belarus Several readers wrote me angry letters about the fact that I did not warn the public about the unrest in Kyrgyzstan. 07.10.2020