As part of the Commission’s ongoing efforts to provide support in the area of health, Commissioner Kyriakides visited Ukraine to meet Minister of Health Viktor Liashko and pay a visit to a medical centre for children as well as a patient rehabilitation centre. The EU and Ukraine on Friday signed an agreement which will open access for…
Thanks to direct mediation by the Kingdom of Morocco, under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the Israeli authorities have decided to open, without interruption, the Allenby/King Hussein border crossing, linking the West Bank and Jordan. This mediation, led by the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States of America, led to an…
Russia is encouraging extrajudicial executions, and is converting the occupied territories of Ukraine into a prototype of a “new Kampuchea”. In Russia, the death penalty has been abolished at the legislative level, but Putin’s dictatorial regime encourages the creation of “gray zones” where lawlessness and arbitrariness reign. The Russian-controlled “republics” of the “LPR” and “DPR”…
Some have argued that the sanctions in effect against Russia have driven Russian businesses closer to Putin, for their own survival. But what is indisputable is that the sanctions have led to a sharp rise in prices, and have also reduced the number of quality Western goods, thereby greatly affecting the every day lives of…
The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is located only 40 kilometers from the border with Russia. A large number of Russian-speaking people live in the city, but Kharkiv is not pro-Russian and does not support so-called “Russian world”. Probably, the enemy hasn’t forgiven Kharkiv for this. Since February 24, the city has been subjected to daily shelling. Local residents have a sad joke:…
MEPs have backed a proposal to allow Ukrainian refugees to keep their national driving licences, exempting them from the obligation to exchange them for EU ones. Only two weeks after the European Commission presented its proposal, MEPs agreed to simplify the procedure for Ukrainian refugees to keep their driving licences in the EU, with 561…
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army has demonstrated that even in the 21st century a direct seizure of the territories of a sovereign state is possible if there is a minimal “legitimising” component. For example, a passport of a Russian citizen who is allegedly “oppressed,” or simply Russian-speaking people who can at any…
Today Uzbekistan is implementing large-scale reforms in all directions. Special attention is paid to the guarantees of individual rights and freedoms in the course of the ongoing constitutional reform in Uzbekistan. In particular, the Constitution of the country proposes to consolidate the right of everyone to access and free use of the Internet. Doctor of…
Russia is the No. 1 terrorist country in the world. It could perhaps be more accurately described as an international criminal mafia organisation rather than a country. The Russian Federation illegally invaded Ukraine and has for the last 4 months been indiscriminately attacking civilians and their property throughout Ukraine in violation of all international law….
Yesterday the Russian occupiers fled from the Ukrainian territory of Snake Island, which they had occupied. Thanks to the defenders of the Odessa region, who took measures to liberate a strategically important section of Ukraine’s territory, to foreign partners for providing weapons, as well as to the designers and manufacturers of the Ukrainian Bogdan self-propelled…
