Russia needs private investment and could sell non-controlling stakes in state firms in a privatisation drive, according to Andrei Kostin,…
Finance
Turkey’s election remains on knife-edge
Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, faces presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 while many western countries will be…
Serbia linked to Ukraine arms exports in leaked US paper
Serbia, one of Russia’s key European allies, has pledged to arm Ukraine or has done so already, according to a…
Erdogan kicks off election campaign with nationalist pledges
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched his re-election campaign ahead of the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections with…
Finnish conservative and populist parties push Marin into third place
Finland’s main conservative party has claimed victory in a tight general election followed by a Eurosceptic populist party. The centre-right…
Montenegro arrests US$40bn South Korean crypto-fugitive
Do Kwon, the South Korean blamed for a US$40 billion collapse of terraUSD and luna cryptocurrencies, has been arrested in…
Turkish presidential frontrunner Kilicdaroglu talks tough on Syrian migrants
Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections will be held on May 14, a month earlier than planned, despite earthquakes that left…
26 Feb 2023
Turkish authorities hail arrests in quake probes
21 Feb 2023
Blinken calls on Türkiye to drop Nato veto on Sweden and Norway
18 Jan 2023
Iran steps up military funding as economy collapses
25 Dec 2022
Wagner Group props up Russia’s Ukraine war with ex-inmates
15 Dec 2022
Istanbul protesters condemn ‘political’ verdict against mayor
8 Dec 2022
Orban poised for EU showdown over Ukraine funding
6 Dec 2022
Scholz boosts China cooperation despite rights record
24 Nov 2022
Kosovo and Serbia step back from car plate crisis
19 Nov 2022