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Moldova Pays Gazprom December Gas Bill, Asks For January Extension (RFE RL)

Moldova’s gas distribution company, Moldovagaz, says it has paid Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom for natural gas supplied in December as the country struggles...

Iranian Teachers Stage Protests In More Than 50 Cities Over Work Conditions, Pay (RFE RL)

Hundreds of teachers have joined protests in more than 50 Iranian cities, demanding higher salaries and better labor conditions. Iranian Teachers Stage Protests In More Than 50...

Internet In Turkmenistan, Already The World’s Slowest, Faces Further Restrictions (RFE RL)

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has ordered the National Security Ministry to impose further controls on the Internet in the tightly controlled Central Asian nation, which is...

USA, Europe and Containment of China (Pascal Boniface, Valdai Discussion Club)

It’s in the interest of the European countries that Washington not take for granted an automatic solidarity in the event of war. Their interest is to avoid a new and uncontrollable escalation...

Neighbours and Crises: New Challenges for Russia (Timofei Bordachev, Valdai Discussion Club)

Through all the discussions that accompanied the preparation of the Valdai Club report “Space Without Borders: Russia and Its Neighbours”, the most clear question was...

US pushing for tougher sanctions on N Korea after missile tests (Al Jazeera)

The United States is pushing the UN Security Council to impose more sanctions on North Korea after Pyongyang carried out a series of missile...

Moon wants to formally end the Korean War. Can that bring peace? (Zaheena Rasheed, Al Jazeera)

On the day that North Korea test fired its first missile of the year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in was in the border town of Goseong,...

MEPs accuse EU official of supporting Serb secession (Al Jazeera)

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is being asked to investigate an EU official’s alleged role in assisting Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik’s...

US wholesale price inflation cools in final month of red-hot year (Al Jazeera)

First, the good news: wholesale price inflation in the United States downshifted in December. Now for the bad: the declaration capped off the largest calendar...

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