SKOPJE, North Macedonia — NATO member North Macedonia said Friday it would briefly lift a ban on flights from Russia next week, which would enable Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to attend an international conference in the country should he accept the invitation. It was not clear whether Lavrov would even accept the invitation which North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Bujar …
Ankara says remarks made in a report on Sunday’s polls by European observers are ‘politically charged and accusatory’. Turkey’s foreign ministry has slammed the “lack of transparency” statements made by an international observer mission monitoring Sunday’s elections in the country. “I regret to note that the election administration’s work was lacking in transparency, as well as the overwhelming bias of …
The shifting framework of the conflict – from a Euro-Atlantic endeavour to a regional one – is indicative that neither Russia nor Turkey consider the West a relevant player in their back yard any longer. Thus, the increased isolationism of US foreign policy and a lack of interest by European countries in the region, coupled with the global COVID-19 pandemic’s …
