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EMPs ask Mitsotakis to block new sales of Greek-owned ships, which are allowing the Kremlin to maintain its “shadow fleet”. They highlight the huge profits being made by some Greek shipowners following the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia

That many countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America view Western sensitivities regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine as selective does not necessarily lead them into Moscow’s embrace.

Missiles that dramatically transform the daily lives of Ukrainians struggling to defend themselves are a reminder of the gloom and darkness caused by the Russian invasion.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz understands the political impasses to which neutrality toward authoritarian and revisionist powers, whether Russia or Turkey, leads.

Interview with a well-known Russian intellectual and activist on the anti-war movement

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Western liberal democracies must demonstrate to Russia’s leader and to all those who may seek to imitate his tactics that gunboat diplomacy has no place in today’s world.

A possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, which could be followed by a Chinese intervention in Taiwan, confronts the West with excruciating dilemmas. For Europe, the danger is not only that it may once again lead to two spheres of influence.

Moscow also came out in favour of involving the permanent members of the UN Security Council - one of which is the UK, which is a guarantor power under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee (one of three that established the Republic of Cyprus) and still maintains sovereign bases on the island.

To grab the opportunity Athens must bolster its economic, diplomatic, and defence forces in this extraordinary post-pandemic world. We are lacking in the economy, but we have an opportunity on the diplomatic chessboard.

Belarusians chanting “Step down!” filled the centre of the capital Minsk on Sunday in the biggest protest so far against what they said was the fraudulent re-election a week ago of longtime president Alexander Lukashenko

It is Mr. Erdogan’s commercial and military strategic alliance with Russia through which the Turkish leader has heaped scorn and contempt on Washington and NATO.

The Turkish leadership went as far as to liken the situation at the border to the plight of the Jews during the Holocaust. This disrespected the memory of the millions brutally murdered by the Nazis.

The Greek government announced emergency measures to counter an “asymmetrical threat” from Turkey which it accused of directing in a coordinated manner the passage of many thousands of migrants to the land and sea borders of Greece.

Russia supports Assad and accused Turkey of flouting agreements it made with Moscow, aggravating the situation in Idlib, and failing to neutralise militants there,

Syria and its populations are paying a huge price for the cynical power plays of major countries.

Vladimir Putin’s Russia which is distant from the Western values of democracy and liberty is steadily gaining predominance in the Middle East.

The result is a harsh defeat for SYRIZA and a crushing defeat for PM Alexis Tsipras who single-handedly  ran the campaign, criss-crossing the country and running on a class-based platform

It was announced in Nicosia that Sergey Lavrov intends to visit the island at an undetermined time, even as Moscow’s Ambassador to Athens expressed fears over the escalation of tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

In Athens, the Russian state-run Sputnik’s report was viewed as the next stage in Moscow’s fervent opposition to the Prespa Agreement and to North Macedonia’s admission to Nato,

Metropolitan Emmanuel of France tells To Vima that Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos granted Autocephaly to Ukraine to preserve unity, debunks theory of Moscow as ‘Third Rome’.

Zaev has offered assurances – in an effort to calm Greek fears of backpedaling - that the agreement cannot change in the future.

The anxieties of the last days are rooted is Ankara’s inability to stop the Greece-Cyprus-Israel collaboration or to impede the designs of international politics on the biggest underwater natural gas pipeline in the world, East Med.

Moscow’s announcement yesterday that it views the referendum as invalid and that it is reserving the right to veto the agreement in the UN Security Council, is indicative of the evolving pressures and competition.

According to an opinion survey published by the website mkd.mk, when asked “Are you in favour of admission to Nato and the EU, by accepting the Greece-FYROM agreement?” 51.1 percent responded yes and 48.9 percent said no.

The Syriza-Independent Greeks government’s first step toward firming up relations with the US was in the field of energy, after the summer of 2015