Another fault line has opened in the mining wars. In Serbia, resistance is gathering steam against various deals made between Belgrade and companies that risk environmental degradation and lingering spoliation. In this regard, the globe’s second largest metals and mining corporation, features prominently. Rio Tinto, bruised in reputation but determined in business, finds itself in […]
By Bradley Blankenship | RT | October 29, 2021 Reports of China building a military base in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan are causing unease in Washington. But it’s wrong to assume Beijing is embarking on the sort of empire-building we expect from the United States. Earlier this week, reports from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty suggested […]
KFOR forces patrol near the border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia in Jarinje, Kosovo, October 2, 2021. © REUTERS / Laura Hasani; Inset © REUTERS / Evelyn Hockstein By Julian Fisher | RT | October 24, 2021 With warnings that fresh tensions between Serbia and Kosovo could unravel the decades-old peace deal that put an […]
In May, the HBO television network aired a new two-part documentary exploring America’s ongoing opioid epidemic entitled The Crime of the Century. The first episode summarized the role of the pharmaceutical industry in the crisis, specifically that of Sackler family drug-maker Purdue Pharma and its deadly prescription painkiller, OxyContin. Part One also thoroughly investigates the […]
The company has been looking forward to this for some time. For an outfit found wanting in dealing with inhabitants of a land whose culture it eviscerated in a matter of hours in May last year, Rio Tinto could think grandly about another future. The Anglo-Australian mining giant could add its name to a sounder, […]
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Even if the Balkans is not stable, a strong Serbia is good for the stability of the region. As usual, Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou have excellent questions, and geopolitically, Serbia is in a much stronger position now than a few years ago. While a lot of countries in Western Europe are in chaos because […]
On July 5, an online conference was held under the leadership of Germany on the prospects for the accession of the Western Balkans to the European Union. The event was attended by the heads of government of Serbia, Albania, the Republic of North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo, as well as the President […]
Sputnik – 29.06.2021 BELGRADE – The use of depleted uranium bombs by NATO in 1999 and the destruction of environmentally hazardous facilities during air strikes led to Serbia currently leading in cancer deaths across Europe, Danica Grujicic, director of the Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia (IORS), told Sputnik. “There are more and more […]
This weekend, a full bus from Stub Kralja Stefana or Pillar of King Stephan in English was supposed to visit the holy churches in Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia’s autonomous province, for the first time after the virus, but the authoritarian regime in Priština has prevented all Christian believers from visiting the holy sites, from all […]
