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Italy calls for full implementation of the Minsk Agreements
In 2018, Italy replaced Austria as Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe or OSCE. As Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said on January 1, during its period of leadership, Rome plans to center its efforts mainly on resolving a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean region.
Alfano also said that the organization will continue to closely monitor the situation in eastern Ukraine. The conflict in the Donbas and around Ukraine “challenges the very fundamental …
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Russia: external interference in Iran’s affairs is inadmissible
The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that mass unrest in Iran should be considered part of the country’s internal affairs, Russia’s TASS news agency reports. The Foreign Ministry also expressed hope that the situation will develop without bloodshed in the future.
"External interference destabilizing the situation is inadmissible," the Foreign Ministry added.
Protests across a number of major Iranian cities began on Thursday, December 28, in Meshed. The demonstrators took to the streets, …
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Media: Japan preparing for 4 scenarios of military conflict with North Korea
The government of Japan began drafting scenarios for a military response of Japanese Self-Defense Forces to an armed conflict in the Korean peninsula, the Japan Times newspaper reported, citing the information earlier published by the Kyodo news agency.
According to the agency’s sources, the Japanese National Security Council studied four scenarios that include an accidental clash between the Japanese and North Korean armed forces, a preventive strike of the United States on North Korea, a …
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Ex-President of Poland Lech Walesa: Russia is losing the battle for Ukraine
Russia uses a development model from a century ago, which is not effective now and which will inevitably lead it to lose the battle for Ukraine, former President of Poland Lech Walesa told 112 Ukraine TV channel
“Today, the world, Europe is being shaped to remove barriers and to level up opportunities and increase the level of development. But Russia, conversely, moves backward. Therefore, it will lose and it is already losing its battle for Ukraine. And it would lose more quickly if Ukraine …
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Belarus develops national cryptocurrency
The Belarussian publication of Interfax reports that Belarus has developed the first national cryptocurrency, called the thaler.
The creators of the Belarusian crypto currency plan to launch it on the international exchanges in January.
“We will enter the first international exchanges in January," said one of the creators of the thaler, Sergey Lavrinenko.
In addition, according to Lavrinenko, the thaler is planned to launch on the Belarusian stock exchange, which will soon appear with the …