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Saturday's vote will pit an unprecedented alliance of pro-Western opposition forces against the ruling Georgian Dream party, accused by Brussels derailing EU candidate Tbilisi from its European path.
Georgian NGOs called for a mass pro-Europe rally Sunday, days before parliamentary elections seen as a crucial test for Tbilisi's democracy and its longstanding aspiration for EU membership.
Saturday's vote will pit an unprecedented alliance of pro-Western opposition forces against the ruling Georgian Dream party, accused by Brussels of shifting towards authoritarianism and derailing EU candidate Tbilisi from its European path.
Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) provided evidence on Friday of what it said were North Korean troops’ deployments to Russia before participating in the war in Ukraine.
The alleged transfer of up to 12,000 North Korean military personnel to Russia, including 1,500 special forces already deployed in Vladivostok, is being monitored through satellite imagery, according to Andriy Kovalenko, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council.
The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.
Crucial voting is underway today in the buffer state of Moldova as citizens decide on whether they’ll trigger a change to the constitution in order to become EU members - and separately, to have incumbent Maia Sandhu as president again. The democratic exercise takes place as Russia reportedly spent millions to manipulate the outcome. Sky News reported finding tens of thousands of alleged pro-Russian posters and leaflets that were seized by the authorities.
In Moldova, authorities believe cash mules have been part of a major and ongoing operation to buy political influence run by a fugitive Moldovan oligarch named Ilan Shor. Convicted of major fraud in Chisinau, he is now resident in Russia which will not extradite him.
Russia, anxious to blunt Moldova’s westward orientation, has been busy trying to influence today’s elections in the country with an extensive disinformation campaign.
Today, Sunday Oct. 20, Moldovans are heading to the polls to pick their next president and to decide whether they want to introduce the objective of European integration in the country’s Constitution. The stakes are high for the country’s future.
The Kremlin’s writing checks
Our ambitions to settle the planets are for nothing if the cost is human dignity and freedom.
That great technological strides often come from dark beginnings is a fact of history. It is well known that rocket technology, which can take humans to the Moon, Mars, and even further afield, had its moment of political awakening among the slave laborers who inhabited the dark tunnels of the Mittelwerk complex, fulfilling the intentions of their master, the rocket engineer Wernher von Braun.
Today, while Ukraine fights for its existence, advances continue to be made in space exploration. Starship, a superlative technical achievement of the company SpaceX, presages a new era when great quantities of material can be launched into space, eventually allowing for the permanent settlement of Mars.
The summit of the BRICS group will be the biggest in Russia since the Ukraine war began and comes as Putin seeks to show Western attempts to isolate Moscow have failed.
Two dozen world leaders will meet in Russia next week for a summit of the BRICS group, an alliance of emerging economies that the Kremlin hopes will challenge Western "hegemony".
The summit will be the biggest in Russia since the Ukraine conflict began and comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to show Western attempts to isolate Moscow over the two-and-a-half-year offensive have failed.
The plant is included in Ukraine's and other countries' sanctions lists. It is a crucial supplier of industrial explosives, mining charges, and equipment for the oil and gas industry.
Kyiv Post's sources in Ukraine's Special Services confirmed that a massive wave Ukrainian drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Special Operations Forces (SSO), and Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR) struck the Sverdlov plant in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, located 900 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
This facility is the largest explosives manufacturer in Russia and is integral to the country's military-industrial complex. It has been sanctioned by both the European Union and the United States due to its products being utilized in the war against Ukraine.
Two religious paintings restored in Ukraine have been loaned for a world-class exhibition of the Dutch master Frans Hals, who revolutionized portraiture in the early 17th century.
The exhibition “Frans Hals: King of the Fleeting Moment” is coming to an end at the Berlin Art Gallery – the largest exhibition of the Dutch master in history and the central event of the year. Among the 75 exhibited works are about 50 of the most important paintings by Frans Hals (1582-1666) from more than 20 public and private collections in Europe, the United States and Canada. The Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art took part in this large-scale international project.
With nine works housed in the Berlin Art Gallery, it has one of the finest and most valuable collections of Frans Hals paintings in the world. Among them are such masterpieces as “Malle Babbe,” “Catharina Hooft with her Nurse,” and “Singing Boy with Flute.”
North Korea has boots on the ground in Ukraine and it’s a significant red flag. But is it getting the right amount of attention from the U.S. and NATO?
In September 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his North Korean “arsenals of evil” cohort Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in Vladivostok, Russia. The two dictators finalized plans for North Korea to supply desperately needed artillery ammunition to Russia’s faltering army in Ukraine.
In return, Pyongyang received military technologies to advance North Korea’s military satellite and nuclear-powered submarine capabilities and its nuclear and missile programs. The meeting was intended as nuclear messaging to the Biden administration, and as a veiled threat to U.S. space satellites as it occurred at Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome – a spaceport – in Russia’s Amur region.
Two missiles struck the city, damaging 15 residential buildings, three administrative structures, and a hotel. Of the 17 injured, eight were hospitalized.
In the late hours of Saturday, Oct. 19, Russian troops carried out a ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, resulting in injuries to 17 people, as reported by city mayor Oleksandr Vilkul and the State Emergency Service.
Barrot's visit comes at the end of a week in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unveiled his "victory plan" to defeat Russia, again calling for beefed-up Western backing.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot warned in Kyiv on Saturday that if Russia defeated Ukraine on the battlefield it would sow "chaos" in the international system.
He spoke the same day Russian forces announced they had captured another village in eastern Ukraine as they continued their steady advance.
The elections are a litmus test of the former Soviet republic's pro-European turn under incumbent President Maia Sandu, who is seeking a second term in the country of 2.6 million.
Moldovans began voting Sunday in a presidential election and a referendum on joining the European Union, with fears of Russian meddling in the two key electoral tests amid the war in neighbouring Ukraine.
The elections are a litmus test of the former Soviet republic's pro-European turn under incumbent President Maia Sandu, who is seeking a second term in the country of 2.6 million.
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
Key Takeaways from the ISW:
NATO needs to stop tiptoeing around Russia’s threats and treat it for what it is: a rogue state responsible not only for war crimes in Ukraine but also for destabilizing global security
In a bizarre display that would make even a fictional dictator from a Sacha Baron Cohen movie blush, Russian propagandist Tigran Keosayan declared that “the fact that Europe still exists is an act of goodwill. It is an act of goodwill from our president.”
According to Keosayan, Europe only exists because Vladimir Putin, the benevolent ruler of Eurasia, has generously decided not to reduce it to ashes. Such a claim would be absurd if it were accurate. But it reflects a broader and infinitely more dangerous delusion in Russia’s propaganda machine.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris both have a history with Ukraine. Their interactions, however, have been very different.
As the United States prepares for the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will look to persuade Americans for their votes. The candidates will discuss their policy stances on a variety of topics, ranging from the economy, abortion rights, and education to border security, immigration, and foreign policy. Another important voter issue will be the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This is not the first time the US-Ukraine relationship will be a voter issue. The Eastern European state has played an important role in American politics over the past eight years. For example, during the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Trump accused the Ukrainians of interfering in the US electoral process. He claimed the Ukrainians conspired against him and his campaign, and he stated that a Ukrainian company hacked a computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee.
