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By Emil AvdalianiJune 22, 2021 Trilateral Iran-Russia-Turkey Summit in Tehran, September 2018, image by Russian Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikimedia Commons BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,078, June 22, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Iran, Turkey, and Russia are building a new model of bilateral ties. Unshackled by formal alliances, the trio is showing it can work…
By Burak BekdilJune 21, 2021 Recep Tayyip Erdogan, March 5, 2020, image by Mikhail Klimentyev for the Russian Presidential Press And Information Office via Wikimedia Commons BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,077, June 21, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Power fatigue per se does not fully explain the decline of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He will have a hard time uniting…
By Guest Contributor For several years now Libya has been involved in a civil war between the Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli & the House of Representatives based in Tobruk which you may have seen commonly referred to as the LNA due to the Libyan National Army doing the majority of the…
By George Friedman – June 15, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe has thus far pivoted around the single issue on which almost the entire world agrees: Biden is not Donald Trump. In the United States, those who voted for Trump – nearly half of all of those who voted – mourn this…
After tight smiles and a firm handshake that made for an image both men wanted the world to see, followed by a chaotic photo op and about three-and-a-half hours of tense talks, U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged to spin their summit at dueling news conferences Wednesday. © Kevin Lamarque/ReutersBoth men called…
Cool normality helped exorcise ghost of 2018’s disastrous Helsinki summit but what else was achieved? Vladimir Putin, left, with Joe Biden. The summit flowed along conventional diplomatic lines: a handshake, several hours of intensive talks and separate press conferences afterwards. Photograph: Peter Klaunzer/AP Luke Harding The Guardian Wed 16 Jun 2021 19.26 BST 1) The weird…
ERIK BRATTBERG JUNE 10, 2021 Source: Getty Summary: Bruised by its interactions with the previous U.S. administration, the EU is leery of fully hitching its wagon to Biden’s geopolitical agenda. But Europe should focus on the bigger picture. U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe this week for meetings with the G7, NATO, and EU…
The man accused of slapping French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to southeastern France earlier this week will be brought up for immediate trial on Thursday, authorities said. The man, identified as Damien T., 28, has admitted during hearings “hitting the head of state and pronouncing words denouncing politics,” public prosecutor Alex Perrin said…
NICOSIA — A government appointed panel found Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades’ government repeatedly violated its own laws in selling residency permits and European Union passports to wealthy foreigners without property vetting them for criminal activity and money laundering. Anastasides – whose family’s law firm helped broker the sales although he recused himself – had defended…
Seven months after he applied for residency on Cyprus – and reportedly got it, along with a European Union passport – Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt has bought a Los Angeles mansion for $61.5 million. The site Market Watch reported the purchase that came after he bought a mansion in Santa Barbara, California for $30.8…
Washington, DC.- (GreekNewsOnline) The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) sent a formal request to President Joseph Biden, Jr., asking for the United States government to recognize the Greek Genocide. In a June 7 letter, Supreme President George G. Horiates wrote, “President Biden, it is time the U.S. government recognizes the Greek Genocide…
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar in Kayseri, Turkey on February 26, 2021 [Arif Akdoğan/Anadolu Agency] June 7, 2021 at 2:07 pm Washington’s support for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) is the biggest problem for Turkey, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has said. According to the Daily Sabah, Akar said the US’ support for the YPG harms…
Pavel K. Baev, Célia Belin, James Goldgeier, Samantha Gross, Syaru Shirley Lin, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Patrick W. Quirk, Douglas A. Rediker, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Thomas WrightMonday, June 7, 2021 President Joe Biden is headed to Europe at the end of this week on the first foreign trip of his administration, for G-7, NATO, U.S.-EU, and U.S.-Russia summits in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and…
Maria GourtsilidouExecutive EducationJune 7, 2021 A team of professors from Stanford University in the United States has published a list of the top scientists around the world. This list includes – among others- 12 Greek professors of the Athens University of Economics and Business. The rankings were based on the research “Data for Updated science-wide…
2015 It will be impossible to achieve a real victory against ISIS without shutting down its sources of funding. As Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov has already mentioned, illegal oil trade is the main source of income for terrorists. To terminate this source of funding, the Russian Aerospace Forces have been delivering airstrikes on oil…
There was a succession of more than thirty Hellenistic kings, often in conflict with each other, from 180 BC to around AD 10. This era is known as the Indo-Greek kingdom in the pages of history. The kingdom was founded when the Greco-Bactrian King Demetrius invaded India in 180 BC, ultimately creating an entity which seceded from…
