“In contrast to the countries of the West which are led by the principle, ‘politics is the concentrated expression of economics,’ Yevhen Tsybulenko says, “the foreign policy of the Russian Federation is based on the ‘Mongol...
Europeans can breathe easy for the first time in several years: Italy, one of the leading economies of the continent, will no longer be a nightmare of government officials and financiers, it will not provoke crises and strife and undermine...
Marx created the First International; Engels established the Second; Lenin, the Third; Trotsky, the Fourth; and now Vladimir Putin heads a Fifth International, although he hasn’t officially announced it and although this one, in contrast...
The capitulation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to the Russian Federation has taken place and, unfortunately, “with the active support of many Russian human rights activists, many but happily not all, Yan...
Two days ago, the Council of Europe voted to ignore its own warnings about Russian aggression and human rights violations. Putin invaded Georgia and Ukraine, illegally annexed Crimea, and has spent 20 years destroying democracy in Russia....
Today, everything’s happening in broad daylight… but, it’s still a story of gross corruption. Indeed, a more dangerous form of corruption. Corruption as an integral part of our institutions. In 2014, the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has voted to accept the Russian delegation, which was sanctioned after the occupation of Crime, back to the Assembly without any limitations whatsoever. The vote for the relevant...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a decision to change its sanctions mechanism, in which it invited Russia back to work in PACE without limiting its voting rights. The decision was adopted on the night of 25 June...
OPEN LETTER Dear PACE Assembly Member, Civil society across Europe is receiving worrying signals that PACE might vote to severely limit its sanctions powers in order to lift the political sanctions imposed on the Russian delegation in PACE...
Euromaidan Press is publishing a translation of an article by well-known German analyst Dr. Susan Stewart which was originally published on the site of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP – Stiftung...
How does one end a war? Any war ends when one side defeats another and the winner achieves some or all of his goals such as “the desired territorial, economic, military or other benefits expected following the successful conclusion...
