Going into the game, history is on the side of the five-time World Cup winning home team and current Copa America holders, who were handed hosting responsibilities at the last minute. The latest edition of the world’s oldest international tournament was meant to be jointly shared by Argentina and Colombia. But …
Read More »‘Our friendship will end here’: Duterte defies Beijing, says he won’t withdraw vessels from disputed waters
Speaking in a televised address aired on Friday, President Rodrigo Duterte said he would not heed Chinese demands and would continue to push for sovereignty over islands and reefs in the South China Sea. “We have a stand here and I want to state it here and now again that …
Read More »India-Russia friendship is too pragmatic for US and China to ruin it
The 19th century British statesman Lord Palmerston famously said “we have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual.” This maxim has been used to justify flexibility for a country to choose and discard partners, depending on the changing times and circumstances. Whether …
Read More »The end of Ostpolitik: Dream of Europe ‘whole & free’ over as Russian-German friendship fades & Moscow pivots to Asia
It was one of the milestones of the Neue Ostpolitik – Bonn’s policy aimed at normalizing relations with the USSR and its East European satellites. On the day of this anniversary, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas wrote the following: “Unlike Brandt, we no longer have to go via Moscow to …
Read More »Lawsuit alleges Epstein used Bill Clinton friendship to intimidate 15-year-old girl into ‘vicious sex assault’
The documents claim that the victim, who is only identified as Jane Doe 15, met Epstein in early 2004 after being groomed by the sex offender’s secretary. The teen, who grew up in a poor household in the Midwest, says in the filing that the well-connected financier had name-dropped Clinton …
Read More »Lukashenka said about the inviolability of friendship of Belarus and Russia
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that if allowed to distort the truth about the great Patriotic war and thereby to rehabilitate Nazism, the tragedy happen again. He said this at the opening ceremony of the Rzhev memorial to Soviet soldiers, BelTA has learned. “As soon as we forget the …
Read More »Lukashenko takes “Friendship” hostage
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has threatened Russia with confiscation of the two pipes of the oil pipeline “Friendship” through which Russian gas goes to Europe, if we fail to reach agreements in the energy sector. According to him, the pipeline will be used to reverse the oil from Poland. …
Read More »Should Russia believe in friendship with China
The XI Jinping’s visit to Russia has the status of a state. But as said, meeting him in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, is not as important a status as the opportunity to meet again. The two presidents communicate more than regularly. Three dozen meetings over six years – an absolute …
Read More »In Kiev Boulevard of Friendship of the people cleared from illegal advertising
What has changed on the Boulevard. In Kyiv on Boulevard of Friendship of Peoples dismantled 196 of the ground advertising funds from 228. “The Boulevard of Friendship of Peoples – one of the key roads of the capital. Recently with the assistance of the city mayor here has seen many …
Read More »Egor Krid was embarrassing, paying the famous rapper for “friendship”
Russian “the bachelor” became the object of ridicule. Young Russian singer is trying to be like popular American artists. But, alas, it turns out he is weak. Another proof of this was the concert of the hip-hopera ASAP Rocky (Rakim Myers) in Moscow. Throughout the evening creed, according to eyewitnesses, …
Read More »