In an event that was as shocking in the speed of its escalation as it was in the abruptness of its ending, Wagner's mutiny, or 'march for justice' as it was described as by the group's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, threw Vladimir Putin's government and Ukraine war effort into crisis mode.
On Sunday, the President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Jomart Tokayev will hold a meeting of the Security Council, at which the situation in Russia will be discussed. The press service of the President of Kazakhstan announced that the President will listen to the reports of the heads of the law enforcement agencies on the measures taken and the implementation of his instructions in connection with the situation in Russia.
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR and Kazakhstan’s National Company KazMunayGas have signed a Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation for the transit of Kazakhstani oil through the territory of Azerbaijan, Trend reports.
The document was signed following a meeting between the Prime Ministers of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, Ali Asadov and Alikhan Smailov, in Baku, says Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers.
Over the course of the country's invasion of Ukraine, beliefs about who is a friend and who is a foe of Russia have consolidated among its population. There is one surprising exception, however - Ukraine itself.
Kazakhstan accounts for 80 percent of the transit land shipments along the China-Europe route, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said during his meeting with Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in an expanded format, Trend reports.
The billionaire of Armenian origin, the former "Minister of State of" the unrecognized "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic", Ruben Vardanyan, is included in the database of the Ukrainian “Peacemaker” Project. On July 17, 2023, the publication "Censor.NET" drew attention to this fact. (https://censor.net/ru/news/3425348/prorossiyiskiyi_oligarh_vardanyan_vnesen_v_bazu_mirotvorets ).
Today marks 60 years since the first woman launched into space. On June 16, 1963, the 26-year-old Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova set off on the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 expedition. Some 20 years later, the U.S. followed suit with Sally Ride launching off on June 18.
On Wednesday evening, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, arrived on an official visit to Cuba. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Caribbean country - Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the United States, Washington has urged the country to overcome bureaucratic hurdles in a planned deal for large armed drones. The contract would be worth $2 billion to $3 billion, according to Livemint.
On the first day of his visit to Nicaragua, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi noted that relations between the two countries are not “customary or traditional,” but “completely strategic.” He emphasized that both countries have “fought and defeated” the “imperialists” who “claim to respect democracy.”
