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Nord Stream to nowhere threatens Putin’s war

by Edward Steen. Vienna, March 5, 2022 The latest issue of the specialist magazine World Oil explains some of the more tangled aspects of Russian...

Gergiev’s star falls as Kyiv prepares to look Hell in the face

Cannes, 1 March 2022 by Mark Porter Russia’s star conductor, Valery Gergiev, has been sacked by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and also dropped by his management over...

What role has Gerhard Schröder played in all this?

How treacherous was/is Gerhard Schröder?  by Edward Steen, Vienna 24/02/22 Gerhard Schröder, 77, the former German Chancellor, chairman of the Russian energy giant since 2017, has...

Ukraine updates February 23,2022

by Edward Steen, Vienna 23, 2022 The UN Security Council met today and discussed Russia's aggression in eastern Ukraine and recognition of two so-called "people's...

We play chess while Russia plays kick arse

Cannes, 22 February 2022 Mark Porter The headline is a Polish saying, and events are moving fast in a way that seems to be proving it...

Putin keeps world on the brink over Ukraine

Vienna, February 14, 2022 by Edward Steen, Sec-Gen Germany and its new Chancellor Olof Schulz are proving the main blockage to any serious Western response to...

David Sassoli dies at 65 – universally mourned

David Sassoli, a “sincere democrat and a good man” Brussels/ Vienna, January 11, 2022. by Edward Steen, Secretary-General Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was one...

Kazhak rumour mill with a Stammtisch in the café

Kazakh débacle gets ever murkier - conversations in Vienna By Edward Steen. Vienna, January 20, 2022.  Vienna has long been a charming and normally safe place...

Story of three men in a snowy forest 30 years ago

Vienna, November 27, 2021 by Otmar Lahodynsky, honorary AEJ President The stroke of a pen in a snow-bound forest in Belorussia changed the world  On December 8,...

Another poignant casualty in Lebanon

(es) Vienna/ Beirut updated November 21, 2021 The Daily Star, one of the oldest English-language newspapers in the Middle East, has abruptly closed - leaving its...

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