The Orthodox Patriarch of Phanar (Istanbul) made a 4-day-visit to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, starting on August 21. The visit of the Patriarch, who in violation of the Lausanne Treaty claims to be Ecumenical, ended in disaster. Role in US plans In January 2019, Bartholomew had recognized the independence (“autocephaly”) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Russian Orthodox Church, to ...
Istanbul (Fener) Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Ukraine has already sparked tensions and reactions in the Orthodox world. As we will see, these tensions have more to do with geopolitics than religion. As I mentioned in a previous article (Religion and Geopolitics: The Split in the Orthodox World: https://unitedworldint.com/15021-religion-and-geopolitics-the-split-in-the-orthodox-world/), this is a matter of conflict between the Istanbul (Fener) Patriarchate and ...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 20. This has been the last meeting between the two leaders, as Merkel will not be a candidate in the September parliamentary elections in Germany. Still, the meeting was much more that a “farewell visit”, as the German press commented. The list of topics on ...
The Crimea Platform will convene in Kyiv on August 23. United World International has already reported that this summit, where Turkey is also expected to participate, is in fact a trap for Ankara. UWI has displayed the organizers’ strong ties to the United States and the Fethullah Gülen Organization, and reported in detail that Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation ...
The ‘Crimea Platform’ is going to convene in Kyiv on August 23, 2021. The Ukrainian government intends to place the issue on top of the global public opinion agenda by inviting representatives of European countries and the US to the convention. The convention’s aim is to set those international mechanisms in motion, which will put pressure on Russia. The Platform ...
Kyiv – Ukraine The Ukrainian government has been attempting to improve relations with China, with whom it had some serious problems only a few months ago. The two governments have signed a cooperation agreement on construction works and this agreement also opens the way for Ukraine to get credit from China. People close to the Ukrainian Government have even praised ...
I was writing an article commenting on the recent Biden – Putin meeting in Geneva, which I consider a first – even if it remains very fragile – victory in the struggle of humanity to confront the terrible threats to its own existence, when I heard the news about the incident between the British and the Russian Navy in the ...
US President Joe Biden’s European tour and his meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in particular were monitored with great interest by Ukraine. However, both the events preceding Biden’s Europe tour and the tour itself created a feeling of disappointment in Ukraine with Biden on the one hand and a reaction in Ukraine among the pro Western circles toward Ukrainian ...
For almost one month, there are comments on a probable Russian-Ukrainian war. Those claims are mainly based on two factors: 1- The intensification of clashes in Donbass region of Ukraine. 2- Russia’s buildup of troops along the Ukrainian border and in the Crimean peninsula. Let’s take a closer look at those two factors: 1- The Donbass region is located in ...
The US has intensified their efforts to sabotage Turkish-Russian relations, and they’re preparing a conspiracy: Washington plans to send mercenaries to the Donbass Region and put the blame on Turkey. United World International has uncovered a new US conspiracy in the Ukraine. UWI has obtained reliable information from international sources that the US has prepared a plan to first sue ...