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By Rhod Mackenzie

More and more investors in the single European currency zone, which unites 20 countries that have abandoned their national currencies in favor of the euro, are less and less looking forward to the future. At least the nearest one, writes Reuters. Optimism in the eurozone is now a...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The three-party ruling coalition in Germany, led by the Social Democrats of Olaf Scholz, came to power at the very end of 2021 and has been steadily losing popularity since then. 70% of the participants in the INSA poll, the results of which were published by the Bild newspaper o...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The oil discount was not a gift or good will gesture , but a very specific market instrument. The discount for India was caused by a number of geopolitical prerequisites that are now losing their relevance, Igor Yushkov, an energy analyst, told the VZGLYAD newspaper. Earlier, Ind...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Valentina Matviyenko, Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, said that China would "consistently and persistently" continue cooperation with Russia.

“We discussed many issues of Russian-Chinese co...

By Nicodemus Minde.

idea of Africa as a global balancing power is entrenched in the notion of the balance of power, which in stricter terms refers to the distribution of power among states as the major actors in international relations in order to prevent any one state from becoming more dominant...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is holding talks in Moscow with the Foreign Ministers of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf (GCC).

"I am grateful that you have responded to our proposal to hold the 6th meeting of the Russia-GCC Strategic Dial...