Wednesday marks six months since the Kremlin launched its invasion of Ukraine. As Russia bombs its neighbor, what has become the biggest European war since 1945 has had an outsized impact far south, in the Middle East. A volatile region with an array of existing problems, the Middle East was no exception to the disruptions brought on by the […]
According to a sequence of tweets from Alexey Navalny’s team on Friday; a voting software developed by allies of the renowned Kremlin critic was pulled from Google and Apple’s online stores in Russia just as polls opened for parliamentary elections. As part of his campaign to keep the imprisoned dissident company; Ivan Zhdanov shared an […]
President Biden embarked on his first trip overseas since taking office Wednesday, a journey in which he will meet with G-7 and NATO allies to discuss ways to address the coronavirus pandemic and an increasingly aggressive China and Russia. Biden departed Joint Base Andrews in Maryland Wednesday morning is set to arrive in the United […]
Tensions have spiraled between Russia and the US since March; after US President Joe Biden said he thought his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was a “killer” ; and Moscow recalled its ambassador to Washington for consultations. Russia has formally designated the United States and the Czech Republic as “unfriendly states” amid the biggest crisis in […]
Allies of Alexei Navalny have called on his supporters to stage mass protests on Wednesday in towns and cities all across Russia, amid a dire warning that the jailed Kremlin critic and opposition leader is now dangerously ill and could die “at any minute”. Navalny said in a post on his official Instagram account on […]
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia will supply 150,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan. Pakistan has already received 50,000 jabs of the Sputnik vaccine, another 150,000 will be delivered soon. 💬 #Lavrov: #Russia has already supplied 50,000 doses [of #SputnikV vaccine] to #Pakistan, another 150,000 will be delivered soon. […]
A Russian delegation agreed to submit proposals for the modernization of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM). The Russian delegation, led by Andrey Zubal, met on Sindh Chief Minister, Murad Ali Shah, in Karachi and discussed various projects. The members showed interest in working with the Sindh government in several sectors, including hydro-treatment facilities, waste processing, and […]
How many of you have heard about the Velo Sound Station? Surely, there would be a lot of ‘Yes’ to this question as it was a very hyped musical program. Following the concept of the much-appraised music programs like cokes studio, NescafeBasement et, the First season of this music star-studded program was launched 3 months […]
Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus being passed to humans from birds. They had reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO). Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East, and North Africa in recent months but only in poultry. […]
Germany, Poland and Sweden have expelled an employee of Russia’s embassy in each country, in a coordinated tit-for-tat response to Moscow’s expulsion last week of a German, a Polish, and a Swedish diplomat. The German foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that Russia’s decision to expel diplomats from European Union countries; including one […]
