With their final concert in the Waldbühne, the Berlin Philharmonic once again showed how inextricably linked the German capital is to Russian music. Chief conductor Kirill Petrenko is the focus of this cultural kaleidoscope. by Vladislav Sankin It was late Saturday afternoon, but every ten minutes hundreds of passengers were pouring out of the arriving […]
Apr 25, 2022 5:14 p.m Turkey closes its airspace to Russian flights to Syria after blocking the Bosphorus to all foreign warships. With the new measure, Ankara is making it more difficult for Moscow to supply its troops in Syria. Turkey has closed its airspace to Russian military and civilian planes that are moving soldiers […]
16 Apr 2022 4:30 p.m The EU has lifted an exception to an arms embargo on old treaties as part of its fifth sanctions package, according to Reuters. This loophole led to arms worth tens of millions of euros being exported from the EU to Russia. The European Union has finally ruled out the possibility […]
30 mar 2022 8:01 p.m The Berlin public prosecutor’s office has dropped the investigation into the former national executive of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party on initial suspicion of infidelity. The case concerned a corona bonus of 1,500 euros that the board members of the party had granted themselves in 2020. The Berlin public prosecutor’s […]
22 mar 2022 11:24 am The makeshift camp for migrants from Middle Eastern countries on the Belarusian-Polish border is now closed. According to the Belarusian border guard, almost 100 migrants have recently returned to Erbil. The rest remain in other sanctuaries. Belarus has closed a migrant camp on the border with Poland. As the State […]
28 Feb 2022 3:50 p.m US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the US is closing its embassy in Minsk. Non-essential US personnel in missions in Russia are free to leave the country. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced the complete suspension of operations at the US Embassy in Belarus. He […]