Category: The European Times

The UN Rights Council on Thursday rejected a Western proposal to hold a debate on China’s alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, a major victory for Beijing, which has sought to avoid further scrutiny , reports Reuters. The defeat, rejected by 19 votes to 17 with 11 abstentions) was only […]

The dissatisfaction is due to the opening of a Bulgarian club “Bulgarians, Tatars and fascists” were chanting in front of the building in Ohrid, where the Bulgarian club “Tsar Boris III” was officially opened, wrote BGNES yesterday. Eggs and stones flew against the building. Some of the protesters had posters with inscriptions against Bulgaria and […]

Trade in antidepressants in Russia has grown by 120% since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization of 300,000 reservists on September 21, TASS reports. This is shown by data from the Russian pharmaceutical marketing company DSM Group for the period between September 19 and 25. The chairperson of the Alliance of Pharmaceutical Associations, […]

Governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako held a meeting with Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church Cornelius on Tuesday, September 20, the website debri-dv.com reported. The parties discussed the issue of resettlement of compatriots in Primorye, including from unfriendly countries. Oleg Kozhemyako stressed that Russian President Vladimir […]

Saturday morning, a video could be seen on social networks, showing the Crimean bridge crossing the Kerch Strait in flames and partially collapsed

On September 21, 2022, the Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art celebrated its 75th anniversary. The event was accompanied by the opening of an exhibition of monuments of religious art from the 14th – 18th centuries by the museum expeditions “Tver Atlantis”, a large-scale outdoor exhibition about the history of the […]

The European Parliament adopted a set of recommendations aimed at improving the precarious situation of Roma settlements in the EU. The Roma, in all the diversity that the term encompasses, are the largest ethnic minority in Europe and face poverty and social exclusion in several Member States, MEPs said. The main problems that need urgent […]

Two men who fled the partial mobilization announced in Russia have sought asylum in the United States after arriving in Alaska on a small vessel, Reuters reported, citing authorities in the northernmost American state. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkauski’s office said authorities found the two Russians near a town about 40 kilometers from the Russian coast. […]

The daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was seen for the first time at a national event in the country at the end of September, Chinese media claimed, citing an expert. The girl, identified as Kim Ju Ae, appeared on stage at North Korea’s National Day celebration earlier this month. She was one […]

© European Commission, DG HOME Brussels (Belgium), 7 October 2022 – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) co-organized yesterday the first-ever EU-UNODC Anti-Corruption Dialogue in Brussels. A follow-up to the 16th EU-UNODC Senior Officials Meeting held earlier this year, the dialogue […]