Author: Rickey Summers

Russia may respond to any U.S. confiscation of its currency reserves frozen in the West by seizing the assets, including property and cash, of U.S. citizens and investors in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, a senior security official, said on Saturday. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing the Biden administration to confiscate Russian assets held in American banks and transfer them to Ukraine, something the Kremlin has said would be illegal and trigger retaliation. In response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia’s central bank and finance ministry and blocked about…

Frankfurt, Paris (14/4 – 40) Relations between Russia and NATO have reached boiling point due the recent event: the claim that Serbia and Russia want to refight Kosovo; the closure of the border by Finland; and the statement by the President of France, Emanuel Macron, on March, 14. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, in a series of posts on social media, claimed that NATO, the EU, and the US government were targeting Kosovo and Serbia and destroying the relationship. Never mind a coalition with Italy and Russia, this is just another pipedream of Radio…

President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign said on Sunday it raised $10 million in the 24 hours following a fiery State of the Union address, where he accused Donald Trump of threatening democracy and torpedoing a bill to tackle the US immigration woes. In a 68-minute address to Congress on Thursday, Biden also charged Trump, his Republican challenger in the November 5 election, with burying the truth about the January. 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol and bowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The fundraising haul is notable given the Biden campaign and his Democratic Party allies raised over $42…

As Congress continues to delay aid and Volodymyr Zelensky replaces his top commander, military experts debate the possible outcomes. Long before it was reported, at the end of January, that Volodymyr Zelensky had decided to replace his popular Army chief, Valery Zaluzhny, the Ukrainian counter-offensive of 2023 had devolved from attempted maneuvers to mutual recriminations. The arrows pointed in multiple directions: Zelensky seemed to think that his commander-in-chief was being defeatist; Zaluzhny, that his President was refusing to face facts. And there were arguments, too, between Ukraine and its allies. In a two-part investigation in the Washington Post, in early December, U.S. officials…

Infighting over the succession and growing frustration in the regions could shatter the stability that the Tajik president has been building for so many years. Next year will mark thirty years of Emomali Rahmon’s presidency in Tajikistan, now the only country in Central Asia that has not seen a change of leadership since the early 1990s. Unsurprisingly, there have been rumors of an imminent transition of power for a decade. The name of the successor is no secret: it’s Rahmon’s son, thirty-six-year-old Rustam Emomali. But there is no consensus within the president’s large family over the succession. Some of the…

PA President’s son Tareq Abbas also holds positions in other ventures incorporated by offshore company. Leaked documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca reveal Tareq Abbas, son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, holds shares worth nearly $1 million in an offshore company with ties to the Palestinian Authority. The documents, leaked as part of the massive ‘Panama Papers’ scandal, show that a company called the Arab Palestinian Investment Company (APIC) was registered in September 1994 in the British Virgin Islands. Since then, the company’s economic portfolio has grown substantially, and is active in virtually every Palestinian economic sphere, including…

A year ago Germany deported to Tajikistan an activist from that country’s exiled opposition movement who had been living in Dortmund since 2009. What happened next is a shocking example of what can occur when Germany fails to uphold safeguards in its increased efforts to deport unsuccessful asylum seekers. The Bundestag this month gave police greater powers to carry out deportations. The activist, Abdullohi Shamsiddin, 33, was deported to Tajikistan on January 18 2023. He was detained on arrival by the security services. Two months later he was convicted of trying to overthrow the constitution and jailed for seven years. No credible…

Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba conveyed their condolences to Libya on Tuesday after Storm Daniel claimed the lives of thousands of people and left over 10,000 missing. Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing deep sorrow over the tragedy that occurred in Libya. “Colombia expresses its solidarity with the Libyan government and people and hopes for their speedy recovery from this catastrophe,” said the statement. Argentina also extended its solidarity to the Libyan people in the wake of the cyclone that recently devastated parts of the country. Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on the social media platform…

President Joe Biden on Friday announced the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to tackle the epidemic of senseless shooting deaths in the US. “Guns are the number one killer of children in America, more than car accidents, more than cancer, more than other diseases,” said Biden at a White House news conference, citing the alarming gun violence statistics from this year alone. “In 2023 so far, our country has experienced more than 500 mass shootings and well over 30,000 deaths due to gun violence,” said Biden. “This is totally unacceptable. It’s not who we are and we…

The first general assembly of the Alliance of Turkic News Agencies (ATNA) was held as Serdar Karagoz, where the President & CEO of Türkiye’s Anadolu, was elected its first president at the event.The alliance, which was established during the “Turkic News Agencies Media Summit: Alliance in Media and Future Vision” program organized by Anadolu in Istanbul, held its first general assembly meeting.In the opening speech, Karagoz stated that the Turkic states have established a new unity between the news agencies and noted that this is a historic day for the Turkic world.He expressed his belief that the alliance will also…