More importantly, resetting the world order, which includes the regional order centered on Ukraine as only a part of it, is a primary objective of the truce talks. This is demonstrated by who consisted of the initial the U.S. negotiation team that included Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steven Witkoff, not Special Envoy to Ukraine and Russia, Ke

Operative Kurmanbekov appears to have lied to Forum 18 since the Indictment includes in the list of evidence the records of questioning by him of Schreider and other Church members. When confronted, Kurmanbekov declined to talk further to Forum 18. “Please, talk to the NSC,” he said. Siymyk Bolotov, Investigator of Bishkek City Division of the

The regime has jailed others for exercising freedom of religion or belief. The 36-year-old Muslim prisoner of conscience Asadullo Madraimov has been jailed since October 2023 for criticising the authorities for closing Kara-Suu District’s Al-Sarakhsi Mosque. Another member of the community, Mamirzhan Tashmatov, was freed from prison in May 2024.

on countries experiencing blatant military takeovers, its response to more insidious forms of democratic backsliding, such as rigged electoral processes and clinging to power beyond constitutional limits, has been conspicuously muted. ECOWAS’ silence raised a sense of injustice and marginalization among populations witnessing the erosion of their

Indian investment in the country. At the most recent meeting, the closure of the Attari-Wagah border crossing was raised. The border, a critical one-way trade route for the export of Afghan goods to India, was closed after India held Pakistan responsible for the 22 April terror attack and subsequently took a slew of punitive diplomatic measures aga