The fall of the defense in the south of Nagorno-Karabakh was expected For three weeks, journalists and authors of numerous jingoistic domestic and Armenian military-analytical portals, blogs and "Telegram" -channels continued to blindly report exclusively on successful defensive actions, and sometimes local "counter-offensive attacks" of mechanized units of the Army of Armenia and the Nagorno AO -Karabakh Republic in the vicinity of the settlements of Jabrayil, Hadrut and Fizuli, referring exclusively to the data provided under the appropriate sauce by the Armenian and Karabakh official sources (central media, as well as the representative of the RA Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan). 20.10.2020
Armenia & Azerbaijan declare ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ in Nagorno-Karabakh starting Sunday Armenia, Azerbaijan, and forces of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh have all agreed to stop fighting for “humanitarian reasons” after dozens of civilians have died in the latest flare-up over the disputed region. 19.10.2020
Life on loan: which countries of the post-Soviet space have the most debts The world is on the verge of a real debt pit. 18.10.2020
Paris Suburb Decapitation: Suspect Was Born in Moscow, But Officially Lived in France for 12 Years French President Emmanuel Macron has described the murder as an "Islamist terrorist attack", saying the teacher, who taught history and geography at the College du Bois d’Aulne was killed because he "taught freedom of expression". 17.10.2020
US threatens ‘serious consequences’ if Turkey puts into operation its Russian S-400 missile systems The US State Department has warned the Turkish government of “potential serious consequences” to the two nations’ security relationship should reports of Ankara testing the Russian S-400 air defense systems prove true. 16.10.2020
‘I am not holding on to power’: Kyrgyz President Jeenbekov resigns after a chaotic October of post-election turmoil & protests Kyrgyzstan’s President Sooronbay Jeenbekov announced on Thursday that he will resign, after ten days of civil unrest, explaining that he wishes to see the end of violence on the streets of the country’s capital, Bishkek. 15.10.2020
Lavrov Calls for Deployment of Russian Peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh as Tensions Escalate Earlier in the day, the Armenian Defence Ministry said that it "reserves the right" to attack any military facility in Azerbaijan after saying that Baku had hit military equipment on Armenian territory. 14.10.2020
‘Time to stop the war’: Talks are ultimately only way to resolve bitter Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenian president tells RT The war over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, which “never stopped” after a six-year conflict paused in the 1990s, must end and measures to ensure peace between Yerevan and Baku need to be put in place, Armenia’s president has told RT. 13.10.2020
‘Russia came to save Armenia’: Azeri President Aliyev tells Yerevan it should thank Putin for ‘once again’ coming to its rescue Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has called on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for saving his country. 12.10.2020
Coronavirus billions. Whom did the pandemic enrich and how? The COVID-19 epidemic that has hit the world has caused completely unprecedented damage to the absolute majority of sectors of its economy. 11.10.2020
Kim Jong-un says socialism saved North Korea from Covid-19, with not a single person infected Kim Jong-un has credited the country's socialist system with supposedly protecting North Koreans from the Covid-19 pandemic, saying not a single case of the devastating global disease has been registered in his country. 10.10.2020
Europe surpasses daily Covid-19 tally peak reached in spring, with 100,000 new infections recorded for first time More than 100,000 new Covid cases have been reported across Europe in one 24-hour period for the first time, as the continent struggles with the second wave of the virus and many nations record their highest-ever infection rates. 09.10.2020
LDNR: course towards deindustrialization Heavy topic You can treat the local authorities in Donetsk and Lugansk with understanding as much as you like, who are now hostages of the situation, if not for their desperate attempts to hush up real and very sensitive problems, periodically imitating the happiness of “good News [ https://en. 08.10.2020
Kyrgyzstan. What was prepared for Belarus Several readers wrote me angry letters about the fact that I did not warn the public about the unrest in Kyrgyzstan. 07.10.2020
Jailbreak: Kyrgyzstani protesters free ex-president Atambayev, imprisoned for corruption Former president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev has been set free from the central jail in Bishkek, after protesters calling the parliamentary election fraudulent stormed the building as well as the government compound. 06.10.2020
Arrest of Hamas co-founder by Israeli security forces denounced as attempt to undermine Palestinian reconciliation Israeli security forces have arrested senior Hamas leader Hassan Youssef. 05.10.2020
Less than the sum of its parts: German reunification thirty years on A country that combined the best aspects of the old West and East Germany would have been a great place to live, but Germany has lost its way since the reunification of October 1990 and the hopes haven‘t been realised since. 04.10.2020
Who can now be frightened by the ghost of Great Serbia "Brothers" are not there? Recently, Serbia, under pressure from NATO and the EU, abandoned joint military maneuvers with Russia and Belarus. 03.10.2020
Nagorno-Karabakh Live Updates: Armenia Downs 'Enemy' Drone, Aircraft, Defence Ministry Says On Thursday, Russia, France, and the United States issued a joint statement condemning the ongoing hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region and urged the parties to resume negotiations immediately. 02.10.2020
Trump-Biden debate put US democracy on display – we’re now little more than the world’s laughing stock armed with nukes America and the rest of the world tuned in to watch the first of three televised presidential debates last night. 01.10.2020
