PSCRP-BESA Reviews No 183 (February 17, 2026) The European Union’s twentieth sanctions bundle marks an unprecedented escalation: for the primary time, Brussels is concentrating on a port in a rustic that holds EU candidate standing. Georgia’s Kulevi terminal, now concerned in facilitating Russian oil shipments, encapsulates a broader transformation underway in Tbilisi — one that’s…
An Estonian army. Picture: Estonian media, Militarnyi Positioned Estonia’s International Minister Margus Tsahkna has dismissed claims that Estonia is amongst Europe’s most susceptible international locations as “faux information” and mentioned that if Russia invades and Estonia resists, the warfare can be taken onto Russian territory. Supply: Tsahkna in an interview with DW, as reported by…
People attend a rally against the blocking of Russian YouTube accounts in front of the US Embassy in Moscow, Russia, 19 July 2024. Photo: EPA / Maxim Shipenkov A court in Russia’s Arctic Murmansk region has fined a pensioner 30,000 rubles (€325) for “discrediting” the army by liking videos on YouTube, investigative journalism outlet Verstka…
MILAN — Russian figure skater Petr Gumennik has been forced to change his short program music two days before the men’s program at the Milan Cortina Olympics after joining a growing list of figure skaters dealing with copyright issues. Gumennik, who is participating as a neutral athlete at the Winter Games, had been working all…
MILAN — Russian figure skater Petr Gumennik has been forced to change his short program music two days before the men’s program at the Milan Cortina Olympics after joining a growing list of figure skaters dealing with copyright issues. Gumennik, who is participating as a neutral athlete at the Winter Games, had been working all…
By Ananya Palyekar WARSAW, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Poland’s Lublin and Rzeszow airports reopened on Saturday after authorities said they had ended military aviation operations including flights by NATO aircraft in the country’s airspace, triggered by Russian strikes on Ukraine. There was no violation of Polish airspace, the Polish army’s operational command said. In a…
The final decision on whether the four athletes could compete in Milan-Cortina was taken by the IOC’s Individual Neutral Athlete Eligibility Review Panel. Watanabe sits on the panel as the representative of international sports federations, by virtue of his role as president of World Gymnastics. He was also a candidate in last year’s IOC presidential…
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Authorities in Cyprus said Wednesday a body discovered last month on a beach along the country’s southern coastline has been identified as the former chief executive of Russia’s largest potash company who had been detained in Belarus in 2013 on charges of harming the Belarusian economy. Police on a British military…
