European Union

EU bans search engines and social platforms from “reproducing” content from sanctioned Russian media

A wide-sweeping censorship order By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net | March 11, 2022 They trained for this day for a long time; particularly by quashing online dissent during the two years of Covid hell, and now the big day is here: once considered an aspirational beacon of democracy, the EU is deploying some […]

Russia adjusts to “sanctions from hell”

BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | INDIAN PUNCHLINE | MARCH 11, 2022 The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks at his meeting with government ministers on Thursday constituted his first comments on the West’s “sanctions from hell.” They were focused almost entirely on “a set of measures to minimise the consequences of sanctions on the Russian economy and the people of our country.”  […]

EU tells Google to delist Russian state media websites from search

By Mariella Moon – engadget – March 10, 2022 The European Commission has sent Google a request to remove Russian state media results for searches performed in countries within the EU. As The Washington Post reports, Google has uploaded a letter from EU officials to a database of government requests. In it, the officials explain how the commission’s official […]

US Enriches itself at the Expense of the EU Paralized by the Price Shock

By Vladimir Danilov – New Eastern Outlook – 09.03.2022 Europe has been shaken by galloping gas prices in recent months, leading to financial and socio-political instability in the Old World. There are several reasons for this, one of them being the politics of domestic European speculators, who wanted to get rich quick when, as a […]

Ukraine faces defeat

BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | INDIAN PUNCHLINE | MARCH 8, 2022  Belying the predictions of western media, Russia’s special operation in Ukraine is entering a successful endgame on the political and diplomatic track much sooner than one would have thought.  A close reading of the outcome of the 3rd round of peace talks in Belarus […]