Section: Main news
ChemChina to purchase Pirelli in e7bn deal
China National Chemical is to buy Pirelli, the fifth-largest tyre maker, in a e7.1 billion (R92.5bn) deal that will place one of the symbols of Italy’s manufacturing industry in Chinese hands. ||| Paola Arosio and Danilo Masoni MilanCHINA National Chemical (ChemChina) is to buy Pirelli, the fifth-largest tyre maker, in a e7.1 billion...
The Adolescent Country
In his keynote address to world leaders at the G20 Summit in Brisbane last November, Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, chose to complain about the difficulty of getting his domestic budget, including a $7 co-payment for medical patients, through a fractious parliament. World leaders were openly bemused. In this Lowy Institute essay...
Congress of European Nazi parties in St Petersburg, Russia
On Sunday, March 22, 2015, at the pro-Kremlin International Conservative Forum in St. Petersburg (Russia) gathered people of 15 different countries. Among participants the Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn and Udo Voigt from the German neo-Nazi NPD, nationalist parties from Belgium (Euro-Rus), Bulgaria (Ataka), Denmark (The Danes), Italy (New...
NATO’S General Philip Breedlove stated that West should “consider all our tools” to help Ukraine
At the annual Brussels Forum on Sunday, March 22, 2015, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and commander of U.S. European Command General Philip Breedlove said that “that diplomatic, information, military and economic tactics were being used against Ukraine” and that West should “consider all our tools” to help...
VW feels pinch of shrinking market
Volkswagen AG is reportedly set to offer voluntary termination agreements to workers at its Russian factory in Kaluga. ||| Frankfurt – Volkswagen AG is set to reduce production and offer voluntary termination agreements to workers at its Russian factory in Kaluga as demand shrinks, according to people with direct knowledge of the plan.VW...
A New Vision for China–Australia Relations
Australian foreign policy towards China needs to focus on long-term strategic thinking. Australia’s foreign policy has been a mix of positives and negatives under the Liberal-National Coalition government, as was true of the previous Labor government. Former prime ministers Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke recognised the need for Australia to...
The investigative commission on Ilovaisk encirclement will soon report about the results of its work
As the result of the investigation there should be named commanders responsible of the tragic events in Ilovaisk (August,2014) in Donetsk Region, Eastern Ukraine when the road to strategic town Ilovaisk was cut off by Russian troops and Ukrainian soldiers were taken into encirclement betrayed and killed by Russian militants. In The Battle of...
National Security and Defense Council: Ukrainian Armed Forces fight off militant attack by Vodyane, Donetsk region
Kyiv, March 22, 2015. Russia-backed militants have violated ceasefire yet again, instigating armed provocations against the Ukrainian troops along the entire contact line. The militants shelled Ukrainian positions near Avdiivka twice from the artillery, which was supposed to be withdrawn in accordance with the Minsk agreements. They have also...
Russians fighting against Putin?
Several Russians are fighting as volunteers against the pro-Moscow insurgency in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
National Security and Defense Council: Ukrainian counter-intelligence prevents a series of terrorist acts in Kharkiv region
Kyiv, March 21, 2015. Ukrainian security services prevented a series of terrorist acts that aimed to destabilize the Kharkiv region. The operatives detained three insurgents who have been coordinated by the Russian intelligence. They were going to use an improvised explosive to destroy the railway tracks in the Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region....