The 5th “Kharibulbul” International Folklore Festival has today opened in Shusha, the cultural capital of Azerbaijan. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attended the festival’s opening. The Festival is being held in the “Year of Shusha” on the occasion of the 270th anniversary of the city of…
This year the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will be joining forces once again with the other European institutions to mark the anniversary on 9th May of the Schuman Declaration, where the EU all began, in spite of recent tragic events writes Cillian Lohan. The war in Ukraine has literally transformed the European agenda,…
Human Rights Without Frontiers, a Brussels-based NGO, has appealed to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan QC, to hold personally accountable and prosecute Vladimir Mikhaïlovitch Goundiaïev, known as Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, for inspiring, inciting, justifying, aiding and abetting war crimes (Art. 8 of the Rome Statute) and crimes…
We publish here in full the address of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev delivered last week to open the fifth Congress of World Azerbaijanis in the city of Shusha. Dear participants of the congress! I sincerely welcome you! Welcome to Shusha and Karabakh! First of all, let us commemorate our dear martyrs…
According to our European partners, is it crucial not to provoke russians? (a bitter irony). Is it crucial that the World War III does not break out? writes Mikhail Podiliak All that matters is that Russians not being upset about Ukraine and don’t use… Don’t use what? Missiles, bombs, tanks, commit no massacres of civilians,…
Every time you talk about the great Russian ballet, I will tell you the story of a young teacher from Brovary who was repeatedly raped in front of her parents and then kidnapped by Russian monsters. About dozens, maybe hundreds of raped Ukrainian women, writes #OlenaPshenychna. Often in front of children. About 15-16-year-old girls from…
“Persistent PR warrior” Ramzan Kadyrov, from being Putin’s odious herald against the background of the war in Ukraine, is becoming a serious threat, in fact a “time bomb” for Russian Islam. While Kadyrov staged horse races in Chechnya, fought bride abductions and apologised to local elders for negligent youngsters, he was perceived as a somewhat…
Are we going to see a remake of Sarajevo’s siege in the heart of Europe? Some thirty years ago, we were watching desperately the people of Sarajevo being starved, and ruthlessly shot by snipers as they were fighting for a multi-ethnic Bosnia. Desperately? Yes, but not helplessly, writes Patricia Duval. The work done by…
Both the United States and the European Union have taken belated steps to counter China’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” a vast project by which China is forging coercive economic and political ties with small and weak states, and attempting to induce Western democracies to accommodate a China-led world order, writes Aaron Rhodes. But they and…
Stéphane Bonifassi writing in an article published by Swiss-based French language Gotham News has reported on the possibility of Kazakh “opposition leader” Mukhtar Ablyazov, who has been in exile in France since 2013, losing the status of a political refugee granted to him in 2020. The State Council, it is reported, has just overturned this decision on the…
