World & Politics
One in three Europeans believes that corruption is a big challenge - 11/16/2016
Every third citizen of Europe and Central Asia considers corruption one of the biggest challenges of their country. The same number of people are afraid of reprisals if they start to deal with it. This suggested in a new study published by Transparency International. Transparency International, headquartered in Berlin, conducted a survey of 60 thousand people in 42 countries of Europe and Central...
Five-year war destroyed the Syrian economy - 11/16/2016
More than five years of war have killed about 250 000 people in Syria. 5 million men became refugees, and other 7 million have been ousted from their homes. More than half of the country is controlled by armed groups, including the "Islamic State", and territories controlled by President Bashar Assad are experiencing severe shortage of electricity. Roads in the country are dangerous, and truck...
Experts predict inflation growth in the United States during Trump's reign - 11/15/2016
The US economy is likely to enter a new era with advent of Donald Trump’s rule, the US President-elect, writes The Wall Street Journal. The Republican’s policy may lead to increased rates of economic recovery in the US, higher interest rates and inflation, as well as emergence of new risks, including threat of an international trade war, noted experts interviewed by the newspaper. Expectations...
Ecuador's Foreign Minister: Assange should be free - 11/14/2016
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that he intends to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London in the near future, according to Agence France-Presse. During a press conference, he stressed that he would do it, but "not for the previously reported reasons ", and refused to provide more detailed information. Recall, a number of US media wrote that the WikiLeaks founder has problems with health. In...
TTIP can be put into cold storage - 11/11/2016
Fate of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, is in the hands of future US administration, said German State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Energy Matthias Machnig on Friday. Republican Donald Trump unexpectedly won the United States presidential elections. Experts say that this is casting doubt on possibility of reaching an agreement on TTIP. They are pointing to...
Anti-Trump protests: what happens when public opinion polarizes - 11/10/2016
Rallies against President-Elect Donald Trump are held in many US cities. Several thousand people took to the streets of New York City chanting "Not my president!". The action participants divided into two groups. One gathered in the middle of Manhattan and went to Trump Tower skyscraper, and other settled in a local park. Demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands of people marched in...
Europeans are setting their minds on cooperation with Trump - 11/09/2016
Results of the US presidential election can be called a stunning political sensation in America. Most forecasters and analysts were confident of Clinton’s victory. "America never accepts anything less than the best," - said Trump on November 9, referring to his victory speech to the voters. "Our campaign is over, but our work is just beginning, and we will do this work so that you will be proud...
Political battle in the US set off a war of Internet bots - 11/08/2016
Current presidential campaign in the United States may go down in history as the first, which massively used software for dissemination information on social networks. Bots have created a third of Twitter messages on support of Donald Trump, and a fifth of tweets for Hillary Clinton. Proliferation of digital technologies, mobile Internet, popularity of social networks and other "new media" have...
The EU suggests imposing economic sanctions on Turkey - 11/08/2016
Relations between Turkey and the European Union have undergone a new test. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg, one of countries - founders of the EU, Jean Asselborn threated Ankara with sanctions for arrest of opposition MPs from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party. In turn, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded that the Europeans stop interfering in internal affairs of...
Clinton's emails: new Watergate or great commotion about nothing? - 10/31/2016
Presidential race in the United States is nearing the finish line, yet keeps surprising even most imperturbable observers. Federal Bureau of Investigation has brought back a case with official e-mails of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The correspondence relates to times of her tenure in the State Department. Public was surprised to learn that the FBI once again dove in clarifying...
