The agenda was busy in Turkey last week. The Antalya Diplomacy Forum was held with wide participation from abroad and domestically. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan’s statements regarding foreign policy stood out. On the other hand, Aydınlık newspaper’s report that American diplomats pressured Turkish companies to comply with anti-Russian sanctions made a big impact. Regarding the economy, Minister ...
By Michael Roberts * After almost two full years of war, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused staggering losses to Ukraine’s people and economy. Ukraine’s GDP fell by 40% in 2022. There was a small recovery in 2023, but an additional 7.1 million Ukrainians now live in poverty. There are various estimates of the number of Ukrainian civilians and military casualties ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen For almost a month, European farmers have been taking to the streets with their tractors, agricultural vehicles and machinery. Started in Germany and then spread to France and other EU countries. French farmers occupied highways with their tractors, blocking transportation for ten days, especially at the entrances to major cities such as Paris and Lyon. They ...
Despite the progress of industry and technology, humans continue to be the weak spot in the face of nature. The devastating earthquakes that shook on February 6, 2023, the southeast of Türkiye and the northeast of Syria are new evidence of impotence facing natural disasters. The two earthquakes of 7.6 and 7.7 have claimed the lives of more than 50.000 ...
The following interview was published in English on Rt.com here. We present it to our readers ss it provides first-hand insight into Russia’s struggle against sanctions and the development of responding policies. The woman who has become a nightmare for the architects of Western sanctions against Russia gives her first interview in two years. The head of the Bank of ...
United World International has organized a webinar with the title “Europe’s energy crisis and the prospects of Russian-Turkish cooperation” on December 23rd. The webinar hosted following guests who provided presentations: Stanislav Mitrakhovich, expert of the National Energy Security Fund, researcher at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation; Dr. Şerife Özkan Nesimioğlu, Assistant Professor at KTO Karatay ...
Most serious observers agree that the sanctions regarding Russian oil decided upon recently by the EU, will not only not hurt Russia’s revenues, but will probably boost them by raising the price of oil. These sanctions will at the same time damage a European Union that is badly needing to import energy and which seems well heading into a process ...
The public agenda in Türkiye had been busy last week. A broad debate occurred on the Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati’s statement that they have been developing relations between Türkiye and Russia and with many other Eurasian countries. Another topic was the statement of Turkish officials about the establishment of a joint gas hub together with Russia. The ...
United World International has organized an international webinar on the topic “The Grain War: Sanctions, Hunger and the Quest for a Mulipolar World” on October 24. Speakers from Russia, Türkiye and Egypt made presentations. The speaker from Russia was Vyacheslav Matuzov. Matuzov is a former Soviet and Russian diplomat. He is also President of the Society for Friendship and Business ...
On July 22nd in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine signed a package of documents mediated by Türkiye and the United Nations to solve the problem of food and fertilizer supplies to world markets. Earlier, the EU and the U.S. had stated that the conflict in Ukraine threatened the world’s poorest countries with a food crisis. However, after the agreements of Istanbul, ...