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Zelensky and photo-op fatigue

by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 17, 2022 The irritations of the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, will be familiar to political stars of the past,...

Ukraine – attacks intensify. 21 colleagues killed since war began

ES. Vienna, April 16, 2022 The humiliation of losing the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Moskva, is being avenged with intensive missile...

Poison pill defence aganst Musk takeover

(ES) Vienna, April 15, 2022 Elon Musk, the US billionaire, may be thwarted in his attempt to take over the whole Twitter company, according to...

Elon Musk ambitions – cars, outer space, now the world

...or anyway the whole of Twitter. But why stop there? by Edward Steen, Vienna, Good Friday, 2022 There is something uncanny about Elon Musk, 50, for...

Deutsche Welle interview with Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTe4L03PET8 RFE/ RL 15/04/22  Barrage of Russian attacks today on Kharkiv and Kiev DW 15/04/2022 Russia warns Kiev re retaliatory attacks NYT 14/04/22   Slovak defense...

Russia strikes back at Kyiv after losing warship

News update Russia says it has hit a plant making anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv It came hours after it...

Finland and Sweden poised to join NATO

REUTER: Finland will take a decision about whether to apply to join NATO alliance in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said...

New Russia war games on Polish border

Kaliningrad: Russia staged war games on Saturday in Kaliningrad - an enclave on the Baltic Sea sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. Interfax news agency...

Why French Presidents (nearly) always get a kicking

As the second round of the presidential election approaches in two weeks, one man is taking a predictable kicking from France's notoriously but predictably...

“My son is married to death now in his coffin.”

Harrowing but brilliant report from France 24 (in English) The war in Ukraine is being waged on many fronts. From Odesa on the Black Sea,...

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