Nearly right – Erdogan demands extradition of deceased writer before Turkey agrees to new NATO members
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by Edward Steen, Secretary-General
Vienna, May 21, 2022
Turkey is milking NATO applications by Sweden and Finland for all they are worth, among them lifting of...
Day 86 of the Ukraine war “absolute evil, absolute stupidity.” Updates incl on propaganda war
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(es) Vienna, May 21, 2022
Ukrainian President Zelensky describes conditions in the east of the country as "hell". Intensifying Russian bombardment had left the Donbas...
What if Yulia Tymoshenko is right? Does Putin intend to exterminate Ukraine?
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es. Vienna, May 20, 2021
Interview with the Wiener Zeitung, Vienna, today
Yulia Tymoshenko is the icon of Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004, when a mass...
Azovstal resistance ends – fate of soldiers unclear
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es Vienna, May 18, 2022
A total of 694 Ukrainian fighters holed up in the giant Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered in the last...
Russia learns a hard lesson about the folly of war
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Great powers usually come off worse when they invade smaller countries
by Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator of the Financial Times
Vladimir Putin was not...
Johnson’s Ukraine support hides less glorious UK past
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London, May 6, 2022
Britain's stance on Ukraine wins plaudits, but questions remain about the UK’s wider record on Russia and whether its tone will...
Turkey to hold urgent talks with Finland and Sweden over Nato membership
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REUTERS: Foreign ministers from Finland, Sweden and Turkey will hold clear the air talks in Berlin on Saturday to resolve disagreements over Finnish and...
Russia’s War against Ukraine: Day 81
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Intense fighting raged in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region where Russia has been concentrating its forces without making significant progress, while “very difficult negotiations” were...
‘I almost got hit’: the Ukrainian journalists turned war correspondents overnight
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Initially writing stories and making television reports was secondary for the journalists as many focused on survival
by Isobel Koshiw of The Guardian, Tue 10...
Turkey’s president objects to Finland and Sweden’s Nato applications
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Erdoğan accuses both countries of harbouring Kurdish "terrorists"
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is threatening to bounce Finnish and Swedish membership of Nato, on the...