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Arctic current publications often overlook France-Russia relations in the Arctic, though cooperation between the two countries in Northern latitudes is more than five hundred year-old. In 1586, the French explorer Jean Sauvage arrived in Arkhangelsk, where he stayed two month in order to establish ...
After being told by Henry Kissinger that it was time to “modernize” FIFA president Sepp Blatter has turned football into a money machine that is expanding in Africa the Middle East and Asia, and maintaining a profitable scenario for marketing partners in a troubled global economy. Reflecting on how football has become a global force during his long tenure as FIFA president, Blatter tweeted on March 23rd that... “FIFA, with the positive emotions that football unleashes, is more...
Republican consensus holds off ultra-right offensive Republican consensus holds off ultra-right offensive in French departmental elections The results of the second round of departmental council elections held in France on Sunday, 29 March 2015 brought a dramatic change to the country’s political map. It went “blue” owing to an increase in the number of departments won by the right-wing republicans (the French media mark them in blue and the ...
It has recently been reported that France, Germany and Britain are joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a major Chinese initiative launched in 2013, which now incorporates 32 states, five of them in Europe, plus New Zealand. Russia is so far outside the process, which ...
... name, Inherent Resolve, until October 15 . This is a totally unique case, especially considering the fact that America’s Western allies have always promptly named their own contributions to the intervention (Shader in Great Britain, Chammal in France, Impact in Canada, and Okra in Australia). In the overall context, the name “Inherent Resolve” smacks of the defence department taking a swipe at the political leadership. On the whole, for the U.S. global war machine this is a regional ...
... Cherif Kouachi, the "brothers from our team," who carried out the massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on the 7th of January,2015. picture alliance / Tone Koene / Vostock Photo Eugenia Obichkina: Counter-Terrorism Mobilization in France He added that: "We did things a bit together and a bit apart, so that it'd have more impact," and added that he had helped the brothers financially with "a few thousand euros" for the operation. Also frequent contact between ...
... of terrorism was the biggest in AQAP’s history outside Yemen and was nothing other than revenge for the honour of the prophet Muhammad. At the same time, according to statements by the leader of the group the attack was carefully planned, with France being chosen because of its “obvious role in the war against Islam” [2] . Al-Ansi’s statement was no coincidence and fully justified. In fact in 2011 Saïd, one of the two Kouachi brothers who carried out the attack on Charlie ...
... Islamist international. Its current version is sure to become a clear and present danger to mankind for many years ahead. However, the greatest concern comes from the 11,000-12,000 foreign fighters in the IS ranks, among them about three thousand from France, Great Britain, Belgium and other European countries [2] , who will some day return to their homelands and make up the core of the local Islamist brigades. Global Terrorism Index 2014 Highlights In the 2000s, the United States and Europe tried ...
The Lessons of the January Events Sunday January 11, 2015 has gone down in the history of France as a day of unprecedented civil mobilization. In Paris alone, one-and-a-half million people – and about four million people throughout the country – marched in defence of republican values, in defence of a society in which the state ...
... in absolute terms. The figures provided by the French Ministry of the Interior last November are astonishing: at that point 1,132 French residents were involved in jihadist networks. 376 were present in Syria or in Iraq, over 300 had decided to leave France, 184 were in transit, 199 had left the war zones (out of which 109 returned to France and had been indicted) and 49 had been killed. These persons come from various backgrounds. Many of the French involved in the jihadist networks are young Muslims ...
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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