• EU countries agree to impose sanctions against Lukashenko

    Permanent representatives of the EU member states approved additional sanctions against the Belarusian authorities, including President Alexander Lukashenko, reported TASS citing a source in the delegation of one of the European countries in the Council of the EU.

    According to the diplomat, this decision will be approved by the Council of the EU in the coming days and published in the Official Journal of the European Union, after which it will come into force.

    In October, EU foreign ministers …

  • Putin allows Russian intelligence officers to have dual citizenship

    Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to allow intelligence officers to have dual citizenship. On September 22, as part of the amendments to the Constitution, Putin submitted to the Russian State Duma amendments to the laws on foreign intelligence and the Federal Security Service (FSB), Vedomosti reports.

    The lower house of the Russian parliament has already approved the law and sent it to the upper house. The explanatory note to the law says that the document proposes the introduction of …

  • EU expresses support to Ukrainian President amid Constitutional court crisis

    The EU hopes that the Ukrainian parliament will quickly come up with a "reasonable way out" of the crisis around the scandalous decision of the Constitutional Court and supports the idea of President Vladimir Zelensky not to limit this issue only to the Constitutional Court, stated the EU Ambassador to Ukraine Matti Maasikas.

    According to him, the EU is concerned about the court's ruling, as it has become a threat to some of Ukraine’s achievements in the fight against corruption.

    The EU …

  • Armenian Prime Minister refuses Israel's humanitarian aid amid conflict with Azerbaijan

    “Israel has joined forces with the devil. Yerevan does not intend to accept humanitarian aid from Jerusalem,” said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

    "Humanitarian aid from the country that sells weapons to mercenaries which are used to strike civilians?" the Armenian Prime Minister responded to the aid offered to Yeravan earlier by the Israeli Prime Minister.

    Pashinyan said that Israel should send humanitarian aid to """. In his view, that would …

  • Armenia asks Russia for help amid continuing conflict with Azerbaijan

    On October 31, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking for help because of the war with Azerbaijan, reported the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

    In the letter, Pashinyan requested consultations to determine the type and amount of assistance Russia can provide to Armenia to "ensure its security." 

    The Armenian Foreign Ministry noted that a number of articles of the treaty require concrete actions in the event of an armed threat or an act of …