by CBBSS | Mar 31, 2021 | Regional News
A Ukrainian military spokesman said Monday that one soldier had been killed and three others had been wounded in fighting that broke out in Eastern Ukraine over the previous 24 hours. Sporadic fighting is still going on in towns near the key port city Mariupol, which...
by CBBSS | Mar 31, 2021 | Regional News
Gazprom announced Monday that its net profit, as calculated under Russian Accounting Standards, fell 70 percent to $3.3 billion in 2014, Reuters reports. Read original...
by CBBSS | Mar 31, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Former U.S. State Department adviser Paul J. Saunders writes in Al-Monitor that if Russia chooses to act as the spoiler of the nuclear talks with Iran, the plan would backfire on Moscow. Doing so would not just anger the U.S., it would also upset several of...
by CBBSS | Mar 30, 2021 | Regional News
Serbian ultranationalist leader and war crimes defendant, Vojislav Seselj, has been ordered to return to the Hague. Seselj has vowed not to leave Serbia without putting up a fight, and the Serbia government is now tasked with detaining him, Balkan Insight reports....
by CBBSS | Mar 30, 2021 | Regional News
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with a Russian newspaper that Syria has been receiving weapons from Russia under contracts agreed upon both before and after the 2011 start of the conflict in Syria. Assad’s comment contradicts the Kremlin...