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Following Yevgeny Prigozhin's attempted mutiny against Vladimir Putin, Britain must prepare for a scenario of Russia's sudden collapse, the British government's internal assessments have warned, The Times published today.more

Support for the far-right AfD party continues to rise in the polls. In the recently published ARD DeutschlandTrend survey, it scored 19 percent and pushed Chancellor Scholz's SPD party to third place. This is the highest result recorded so far for this party in an ARD TV poll. The Christian Democrats can count on by far the greatest support.more

U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said he will not be the next NATO secretary-general. “It’s not going to happen,” Wallace told The Economist in an interview published Wednesday night. more

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"The result is predetermined - there will be no victory for Putin, he is only capable of creating hell," said Russian opposition columnist and satirist Viktor Shenderovich in a statement on the Khodorkovsky live channel on YouTube.more

The British government wants to preserve the ability to open new coal mines by removing an amendment from the current energy bill that would ban them from opening, BBC News reported today.more

The UK House of Commons overwhelmingly backed a report by the Privileges Committee late last night which found that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson had knowingly misled Parliament by giving explanations about Downing Street events during the Covid lockdown.more

A Russian military attack on Swedish territory cannot be ruled out, because despite the ongoing war against Ukraine, Russia still has military capabilities - this is one of the conclusions of the report of the Defense Readiness Committee of the Swedish Parliament published yesterday.more

The arrest of Nicola Sturgeon, former First Minister of Scotland and former leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), and the ongoing investigation into financial irregularities within the party have had a major impact on her ratings, but not on support for independence, according to polls.more

The British government will present a bill today prohibiting all public bodies from conducting their own campaigns to boycott or discourage investment in other countries and territories, including Israel, the Minister for Equal Opportunities and Communities Michael Gove announced on Sunday.more

The British daily "Daily Mirror" published on its website a video from an event at the headquarters of the ruling Conservative Party in December 2020, during the ongoing covid restrictions, in which participants dance, drink alcohol and openly joke about the restrictions.more

French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to block British Defense Minister Ben Wallace's candidacy for the post of NATO's new secretary general by pressing for a European Union representative to take over, The Sunday Telegraph reported today.more

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has committed a "clear breach" of rules on taking up jobs by former members of the government by failing to announce his intention to take up the role of columnist for the Daily Mail, a special advisory committee said yesterday.more

An MP report finding former Prime Minister Boris Johnson guilty of knowingly misleading the House of Commons about events in Downing Street during the lockdown puts Conservative MPs in a difficult position to vote on it, British media assess today.more

Despite the prospect of a 'climate catastrophe', the world's response to this threat remains 'pathetic' - declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday. He renewed his criticism of the use of fossil fuels, which he described as "incompatible" with the idea of humanity's survival.more

Tributes are being to a "formidable politician" and an "amazing actress" following the death of Glenda Jackson. She was a star of stage and screen before dedicating her life to politics in the 1990s, and later returning to acting. more

Boris Johnson as prime minister has repeatedly deliberately misled the British Parliament with his statements about Downing Street parties during the Covid-19 pandemic, the House of Commons Privileges Committee has said in a new report.more

Resistance to disinformation is the subject of a report discussed today at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the UN by representatives of the Lublin Triangle countries. Speeches are planned by Galyna Petrenko - director of Detector Media from Ukraine, Lukas Andriukaitis - co-founder of the Civic Resilience Initiative in Lithuania, and Paula Rejkiewicz from the press office more

History classes at universities have begun to be visited by inspectors, checking that lecturers teach in accordance with the authorities' instructions. Even criticism of the times of the tsars is not allowed," reported the Radio Svoboda portal.more

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died today in a hospital in Milan at the age of 86, Italian media reported. The former three-time head of government, the senator was hospitalized again on Friday. He recently suffered from chronic leukemia.more

Former First Minister (Prime Minister) of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon was arrested yesterday in connection with an investigation into financial irregularities with the Scottish National Party (SNP) she led for more than eight years and was questioned by police. After more than seven hours of questioning released from custody without charge pending further investigation.more

In total, 54.5 percent. of respondents in the United Surveys poll for Wirtualna Polska have doubts about the creation of a commission to investigate Russian influence, and almost 45 percent. of this group believes that the idea of its creation should be abandoned. Less than 40% of the voters were in favor of starting the commission's work.more

Swede Greta Thunberg, who launched a school strike for the climate in front of the Swedish Parliament in 2018, has declared that she is ending her participation in the protest. The Friday demonstration movement went around the world, but has weakened in significance over time. In Sweden, the young support the right.more

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly accused Iran on Friday of supplying munitions to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine. This is the first accusation of its kind by the British government.more

Former US President Donald Trump faces a total of 37 counts of intentionally withholding classified documents and obstructing an investigation, according to court records released yesterday.more