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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A few years ago, many experts called for fiscal austerity, and investors feared that xcess costs would hit the government bond market. In 2011, investor Bill Gross, then ruled the world’s largest bond fund Pimco, sold US Treasury bonds saying that British bonds were based "on a nitroglycerine bed". Nowadays, Gross is urging to increase spending. There are signs that governments are willing to...

Despite negative predictions of experts after the Brexit referendum, the country's economy has grown in the third quarter. The G20 summit in July assessed Brexit as the most significant threat to growth of the global economy since the crisis of 2008-2009. However, the country’s GDP increased by 0.5%, which was above the average forecast of analysts in Bloomberg of 0.3%. yet was slightly lower...

According to UN data, 2016 became the most dangerous year for refugees attempting to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. Such travel has already killed more than 3 800 people even despite the fact that number of those who ventured on the dangerous voyage declined by about threefold. Number of migrants perished or get lost in the Mediterranean Sea exceeded 3 800 people. Thus, 2016 has...

For the first time in the history, green electricity in 2015 grew higher than fossil fuel generation, as follows from new IEA’s report. In 2015, eco-friendly electric power industry produced 153 GW more than convenient energy sources did, according to report of the International Energy Agency (IEA) on medium-term market prospects for renewable energy sources. As noted by Bloomberg, total increase...