About three million people live in territories controlled by the opposition in the Syrian province of Idlib. According to the UN, this figure includes about a million children and the same number of people who previously fled there from other regions of the country. For several weeks now, the Russian and Syrian air forces have been bombing this province in northwestern Syria every day. “We are...

Large countries are predisposed to a higher level of corruption, concluded researchers of the World Bank (WB), who analyzed data from surveys of entrepreneurs. The World Bank recommends large states to monitor activities of officials stricter, and to punish corrupt officials more severely. Having issued such an ambiguous recommendation, the WB experts admitted that they could not explain the...

Beijing is open to trade negotiations with the United States, but is ready to "fight to the end" if necessary, the white paper emphasizes. China laid responsibility for unleashing a trade war on the United States. China laid the entire responsibility for unleashing a trade war between the two countries on the United States, but at the same time expressed willingness to negotiate. “China does not...

British authorities paid £ 97 million to the world's leading consulting companies in order to access consequences of Brexit and prepare for it. As of the beginning of April 2019, the bulk of the funds was paid to 6 companies: Deloitte, PA Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Bain & Company and the Boston Consulting Group. At the same time, the UK Audit Office (National Audit...

According to a study conducted by the American consulting company Duff & Phelps, the majority of surveyed top managers in the financial sector considered New York to be the main global financial center, whereas a year earlier they preferred London. The respondents noted the alarm over the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and believe that in the near future Hong Kong may be competing with New...

Greek voters turned away from Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing Syriza party during the elections to the European Parliament and within the local elections held on the same day. The oppositional conservative party New Democracy, which outperformed Syriza by 9% in the elections to the EP, went ahead. Such a gap, of course, is very large, given that Syriza is the ruling party. The local elections are no...

The EU countries are counting preliminary results of the three-day voting in the largest legislative body of the European Union - the European Parliament - that ended on Sunday. The voter turnout exceeded 50% for the first time in two decades. The counting of votes has not yet been completed, but it is already obvious that many voters primarily in France, Italy and the UK supported radicals and...

According to the international public organization Avaaz, the European Internet is “choking on misinformation” on the eve of elections to the European Parliament. Experts have found more than 500 suspicious groups and pages that spread fake news and extremist propaganda and have tens of millions of subscribers. At the same time, according the Oxford Institute, Facebook users are more actively...

The United States is preparing sanctions and criminal cases against a number of members of the Venezuelan government. They are suspected of laundering money for Head of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and his cabinet ministers, Reuters interviewees, familiar with the situation, reported. According to their information, the Venezuelan food program CLAP, founded in April 2016, was used for laundering....