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On December 12, 1995, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution No. 50/80 A “On the permanent neutrality of Turkmenistan,” thereby expressing broad approval by the international community of the young republic’s decision on its neutral status. All UN member states, without exception, supported this decision. Following the adoption of the resolution, Turkmenistan became the first country in history to consolidate its neutrality in the UN. Since that moment, December 12 has been a national holiday in Turkmenistan…

France has suffered another geopolitical setback in Africa. On December 2, Burkina Faso and Niger announced their withdrawal from all G5 Sahel bodies, an institutional framework initiated by the leaders of Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Chad in 2014 and finally formed in 2017. On December 6, the Presidents of Mauritania and Chad also announced their withdrawal from the organization. Among the reasons for withdrawing from the alliance cited by the military leaders of the first two countries was the organization’s inability to effectively solve not only economic…

It is now 80 years, almost to the day, that the leaders of the “Big Three” powers in the coalition against Nazi Germany met in near secrecy. Operation Eureka was nearing its completion. But it would be a mistake to assume that the US and Britain sat around the negotiating table willingly. They were pressurized into changing their political strategy and tactics by the successes of the Red Army at the front and the realization that the Soviet Union was capable of defeating Nazi Germany on its own. In late November 1943, Joseph Stalin…