US Senate approves US defense budget for fiscal year 2021, which provides for new sanctions against Russia's Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline

The House of Representatives, followed by the US Senate, supported a new, expanded package of sanctions against Nord Stream 2.

В рамках имперской логики многие называют Путина главным победителем карабахской войны. Но это тактический успех. В жертву принесены стратегические интересы России, считает Иван Преображенский.

Commentary: Putin is the unexpected winner of the Karabakh war Putin managed to turn the tide in the war in Nagorno-Karabakh in his favor. The defeat of Armenia could put an end to the democratic experiment in the country, said the FAZ columnist Reinhard Feser.

Эксперт Германского общества внешней политики (DGAP) Андраш Раш в интервью DW оценил рост влияния России на Южном Кавказе, российско-турецкие отношения и перспективы нынешнего правительства Армении.

During the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkey openly supported Azerbaijan in 2020. The news of reaching an agreement between Yerevan and Baku sparked jubilation in the Turkish media.

It has been 100 days since the August 9 presidential election in Belarus. Since then, the country's largest protests in the history of independent Belarus have continued.

The Nord Stream-2 pipeline undermines the EU's energy policy from within and is particularly dangerous because of its impact on Germany. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki in an article published on Sunday, September 13, in the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The head of EU diplomacy noted that the decision on the future fate of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, after the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, should be made by Germany, not the European Union.