Hungary will block the EU’s accession talks with Ukraine if it believes they are going in a direction that harms the country’s national interests, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. In an interview with Mandiner news magazine on Friday, Szijjarto weighed in on the bloc’s recent decision to kick-start official …
Read More »UN mulls change to Security Council veto process
The UN General Assembly is considering introducing a provision that would require permanent members of the Security Council to justify their use of veto powers.Currently, the five permanent members – China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US – can veto any resolutions put forth by the body. The council’s …
Read More »Germany suspends Nord Stream 2 certification process
German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) insists that the operator of the pipeline could only be registered as a German entity, while Nord Stream 2 AG company is based in Switzerland. Nord Stream 2 AG opted to establish a German subsidiary to oversee the part of the pipeline that goes through the …
Read More »Russian health watchdog says Covid-19 triggers process of ‘natural selection’ as deaths among elderly and infirm peak
Maxim Starodubtsev, head of the ‘Health Care’ public protection watchdog, told journalists on Saturday that the healthcare system was struggling to deal with the rise in cases. “In such a situation, natural selection is turned on. That is, patients die – the elderly, those who, in principle, are susceptible to …
Read More »Biden aide says federal govt must sign off on transition THIS WEEK after process freezes
Biden’s transition team complained last week that General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy has not yet broken ranks with Trump and is refusing to sign off on Biden as the winner of this month’s presidential election. Until Murphy ascertains Biden’s apparent victory, the former vice president will not receive intelligence …
Read More »Trump & Melania ‘will begin quarantine process’ pending test results after close aide Hope Hicks contracts Covid-19
The positive test came on Thursday after Hicks accompanied President Trump to a rally the day prior, first reported by the Associated Press, CBS and a number of other outlets reported, citing officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The White House did not immediately confirm the diagnosis, however Trump …
Read More »Nuland has threatened Russia with new sanctions in case of lack of progress in the Minsk process
It is necessary to start serious negotiations on the implementation of the Minsk agreements, and if this is not possible, the sanctions against the Russian Federation should gradually increase, said assistant Secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs in 2013-2017 years, Victoria Nuland. “I think we need to start …
Read More »The process went: why the case of Ephraim will not change anything
Whether Russia is really common to all law, the courier Sergey Zakharov would have been alive today. Actor Mikhail Yefremov waiting for severe punishment. Honored — he killed a man, sitting behind the wheel drunk. And we, apparently, waiting for a large-scale show trial. Speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav …
Read More »“Cessation of lawlessness is a difficult and long process”
Nine new faces protest in Russia. Dossier Znak.com Another wave of protest that rose against the background of non-admission of candidates to the Moscow city Duma, showed the new face of the opposition movement. Candidates, lawyers, journalists and students organized rallies and satisfied the hunger strike, speak to the media …
Read More »In the Bundestag took the initiative of reviving the peace process in the Donbass
Discussion of the initiative to be held “in Committee and in the plenary”. In the Bundestag initiated a review of the project on the revitalization of the peace process in the occupied Donbas. “At the hearings in the Bundestag, initiated by the faction free Democrats (fraction of Free democratic party …
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