Author: Steven Sahiounie

According to the statement, Russia allegedly has for many years supported and financed terrorist regimes and organizations in various ways The Parliament of Latvia (the Saeima) has declared Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, the parliament said in a statement published on its official website on Thursday. On August 11, the Saeima adopted a statement, which recognizes activities of Russian troops in Ukraine as terrorism and declares “Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.” “The Saeima’s statement calls on EU countries to immediately suspend the issuance of tourist and entry visas to Russian and Belarusian citizens,” the statement reads. Members…

International politics is largely about applying double standards, Josep Borrell acknowledged The EU’s foreign-policy chief Josep Borrel has admitted that double standards permeate international relations, after being asked in an interview why Brussels was far more willing to support the people of Ukraine than the people of Gaza. The Middle East conflict is not in the EU’s hands, he said, pointing the finger at the US. “We are often criticized for double standards. But international politics is to a large degree about applying double standards. We do not use the same criteria for all problems,” he told El Pais newspaper, as…

 A militant group’s attack was repelled by Syrian forces in the Idlib province in the northwestern part of the country on Wednesday, according to state news agency SANA. The report said that the army forces stopped a “terrorist group composed of fighters from foreign nationalities” from entering the town of Jobas in the eastern countryside of Idlib by sneaking from the Nayrab region. The majority of the militants were either killed or wounded, it said. Although some rural areas in Syria are under government control, Idlib has been the last significant militant stronghold in the country. Meanwhile, another report indicates…

US Commerce Department accused the Chinese Far East Cable company of violating US export controls related to shipments of telecommunications equipment to Iran. Far East Cable, China’s largest wire and cable manufacturer, agreed in 2013 to buy equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corporations, Euro news reported. According to the U.S. Commerce Department charging letter issued on Thursday, Far East Cable, after dealing with ZTE, contracted with Iranian companies to supply telecommunications equipment. U.S. Commerce Department said it accused Far East Cable of 18 violations of U.S. export controls between September 2014 to January 2016. Far East Cable contracted with Telecommunications Company of…

Hours after the FBI searched former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, his supporters gathered outside in an impromptu rally: Trump flags flew, pickups roared and “We’re Not Gonna Take It” blared. Why it matters: Trump and the American right mobilized to use the raid as a symbol of government overreach and “political persecution,” with a speed, fury and ferocity not seen since he left office. The FBI and Justice Department have said nothing official about what happened. Republicans instantly moved to portray the raid as President Biden trying to hurt a potential 2024 opponent. The conservative National Review said: “[T]he idea that a law enforcement organization under…

On August 9, explosions rocked Russian military air base “Saki” near the town of Novofiodorovka in the Republic of Crimea. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that at around 15:20 local time several aviation munitions detonated on a storage site in the area of the airbase. According to the report, the aviation equipment at the airfield was not damaged. “Measures are being taken to extinguish the fire and find out the causes of the explosion,” the statement said. The defense ministry added that “there was no fire impact” on the ammunition storage area at the airfield. Media reports claimed that there…

Dmitry Medvedev has lashed out against the leader of Ukraine for his call to retaliate against all Russians globally Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky wants the West to seek inspiration from German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed on Tuesday. Medvedev, who now holds the position of deputy chair of the Russian national security council, blasted Zelensky over his call for the collective punishment of Russians. The NATO-backed leader has called for all Russians – regardless of their leanings or circumstances – to be deported from Western countries. “Adolf Hitler tried to implement such ideas about an…

Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad is bumping up against quotas imposed by the European Union for sanctioned goods that it can import across Lithuania from mainland Russia or Belarus, the region’s governor said on Tuesday. Lithuania infuriated Moscow in June by banning the land transit of goods such as concrete and steel to Kaliningrad after EU sanctions on them came into force, Reuters reported. As part of a deal reached in July, the EU imposed limits on the volume of such goods crossing by land between Kaliningrad and mainland Russia or Belarus, based on average volumes over the last three…

According to Academician Leonid Bolshov, following the Fukushima accident, all nuclear plants in Russia were equipped with additional diesel generators and movable pumps to be launched in case of electricity outages or a pressure loss in the reactor’s cooling loop The main risks for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant are disturbances in the reactor cooling mode, which are fraught with serious consequences, Academician Leonid Bolshov, the founder and scientific director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Nuclear Safety Institute (IBRAE), told TASS on Tuesday. “There are two options. Option one: electricity supplies to the station are cut, with all transmission…

30 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli forces fire as they stormed of the city of Nablus in the West Bank. Palestinian Wafa Agency said that large forces of the occupation army stormed the eastern alley of the old city in Nablus and encircled the buildings and opened fire at the Palestinians, injuring 30 of them, some of them seriously, and they also prevented emergency crews from reaching the injured. The occupation forces also encircled a house in the Old City and targeted it with a missile and imposed a tight cordon on the town’s alleys and closed all its entrances.…