Russian Federation

  • Recent ballots in Georgia and Moldova have shown how the Kremlin is working to counter the EU’s eastern expansion. An annual assessment of candidate countries’ progress towards becoming EU members, unveiled by Brussels on Wednesday, showed none of the hopefuls making big strides despite a renewed sense of urgency to expand the European bloc eastwards.…

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  • Mr. Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov of the Russian Federation, who serves as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General, was in June appointed as head of the newly created United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres endorsed Mr. Voronkov’s ascension into the office which was established by the General Assembly resolution 71/291 on 15 June 2017, and on…

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