The World Trade Center (WTC) in the Lower Manhattan was New York City’s (NYC) most captivating landmark, not overshadowing, but complementing its Midtown rival – the Empire State Building. Its iconic twin towers, shaping the pinnacle of NYC’s skyline, stood ...
In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin committed crimes against humanity by purposely starving to death more than four million Ukrainians for resisting his Five-Year Plan to collectivize agriculture. Millions more fled and in 1937, Stalin executed or imprisoned hundreds of thousands of ...
The US Congress enacted the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) to ensure that the American people were aware when foreign governments funded media sources; at the time, their concerns focused on the Nazi regime in Germany. Today, this ...
With Kim Jong-un ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, US President Donald J. Trump is left with two “horrible” options to deal with the threat posed by the North Korean regime, according to Atlantic Council board member and a ...
Cooperation within BRICS stimulates economic cooperation among member countries, says Valdai Club expert Zhao Huasheng. A clear example is the China-Russia economic relationship. “There is an expression that China usually acts hotly politically, and coldly economically. However, in my opinion, now ...
The suspect at the centre of a major manhunt by police investigating last week’s terror attacks in Catalonia was the driver of the van that killed 13 people in Barcelona, an official has said. Catalan interior minister Joaquim ...
It would be good if the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs were more involved in humanitarian issues such as the return of Azerbaijani refugees to their native lands, while settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Elkhan Alasgarov, PhD, head of the Expert Council ...
On July 24, Vice President of Ukraine’s Youth Atlantic Council Ruslan Miroshnichenko pays tribute to Ukrainian soldiers who died fighting to free Lysychansk from pro-Russian separatists. Credit: Askold Krushelnycky Bloody fighting between government troops and pro-Kremlin separatists and Russian regulars has ...
In order to expose the Armenian lies about Nagorno-Karabakh, it is enough to hold a census in the occupied region of Azerbaijan, following which it will be found out that nearly 30,000-40,000 people are living there, which is three times ...
The meeting of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin as part of a working visit shows the trusting relations between the two countries’ leaders, Elkhan Alasgarov, head of Expert Council of the Baku International Policy and Security ...