Russia’s Central Bank raised its key policy rate to 21 percent in late October as the Russian authorities struggle to manage…
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Russia’s Central Bank raised its key policy rate to 21 percent in late October as the Russian authorities struggle to manage…
Google has been fined in Russia for removing Russian TV channels from YouTube. The size of the penalty, however, swelled to an unprecedented level over the past 4 years, since the court case started in Russia against the tech…
Europe struggled to turn around its economic fortunes in autumn, as Germany, the region’s powerhouse, reported weak growth, offsetting stronger expansion in the continent’s southern countries, the European statistical agency reported on…
China and Russia have conducted more than 100 joint military exercises, most of them since 2017, and many of them in distant locations such as the Mediterranean, the Arctic Circle, and off the South African coast.
Sometimes there’s…
In early October, Ukrainian intelligence reported that several thousand North Korean soldiers were undergoing training in Russia in preparation for deployment to the Ukrainian front line later this year. South Korea’s National…
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Competitiveness of the EU and the US.
Summary
In recent decades the EU seems to have been lagging behind the US both economically and technologically. Identifying the key elements that underlie the differences in competitiveness has…
Tbilisi, Georgia
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In a dramatic show of unity, Georgia’s often fractured opposition gathered at the presidential palace in Tbilisi, standing shoulder to shoulder…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of major government contractor SpaceX and key ally of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin for…
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Adults in the EU leave their parents’ home at the age of 26 on average, according to Eurostat data.
However,…
Muslims across Europe are grappling with a “worrying surge” of racism that is being fuelled in part by “dehumanising anti-Muslim rhetoric”, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as it published a survey in which nearly half of the…