Russia’s coldest sanctions from the west, including a large arms embargo, offshore energy restrictions and restrictions on Russian bank trading in Europe will not just hurt the country, but also the EU. Russia is the EU’s biggest trading partner amounting to £272 billion the previous year. The inflation in Russian energy production would mean bigger…
Russia recently boycotted an informal Security Council meeting with Crimea’s Tatar minority and called the meeting as “inappropriate” and a distraction from the Ukraine Crisis, which Russia is deeply involved in. Other countries, including China and Rwanda, did not attend the security council meeting as well. Lithuania’s UN deputy ambassador Rita Kazragien said that the…
The US rejected Russia’s referendum to annex Crimea saying that the entire document was “rushed” in just a few weeks after the Russian military invaded many Crimean military bases and government offices. According to US President Barack Obama, the referendum and act violated international law and the Ukrainian constitution. Obama said that Russia compared its…
Germany is the newest country to join in contributing to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, which had become a major issue in the Syrian civil war, which had lasted for more than two years. Germany’s response to a UN help request includes burning the destroyed weapons at a government facility in the town of Muenster…