Author: Global News Insider
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China to launch its digital currency

As from the recent leakage it became evident that China will soon launch its own digital currency. The Central Bank of China announced at the end of April that it would carry out a closed test of central bank digital currency in four cities in China starting from May, 2020. This will be the first…
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China and Russia speculate on the responsibility for the outbreak of coronavirus. Who is to blame for the COVID-19?

After the outbreak of coronavirus which is reported to have started in the Chinese province of Hubei, Wuhan city, the international community has carefully monitored the situation there on a daily basis. Many countries and individuals tried to help Chinese people infected with the new type of coronavirus by sending medical material to China or…
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After the outbreak of coronavirus the situation with migrant workers in Russia may worsen. What will be the economic consenquences for the Central Asian republics?
There are around 2,5 million of labor migrants working in Russia, especially in the capital city Moscow. According to the statistics, in 2018 there were around 918 thousand migrant workers from Uzbekistan, 524 thousand from Tajikistan, 265 thousand from Kyrgyzstan, and 164.6 thousand and 105.3 thousand people from Ukraine and Kazakhstan, respectively. Their earnings are…
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Ukraine: reshuffling of the prime minister and proreform ministers. Is Ukraine on the brink of another crisis?

6 months after the landslide victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine the former comedian Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky is unexpectedly reshuffling the prime minister, general prosecutor and some proreform ministers. This replacement comes only 6 months after a new governement in Kiev was formed to push forward reforms and solve crucial economic problems of Ukraine.…
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George Soros puts blame on Russia in Idlib crisis. Turkey is innocent and the Brussels should stand with Ankara over Putin’s crimes. Short comment by International Insider.
Background: On March 4, the article written by George Soros titled “Europe must stand with Turkey over Putin’s war crimes in Syria” was published in Financial Times. Although George Soros is fighting for democracy all over the world, there were no commentaries allowed under his article in FT. As we stated in the previous article…
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Turkey escalates conflict in Syria and opens its borders for thousands of migrants flooding to Europe. What is the response of the international community?

Background information: Civil war in Syria has been raging for 9 years now, but in comparison with other authoritarian regimes in the region, Bashar Assad seems to be the only of the regional rulers who has maintained top office in his country. Regimes in Libya, Tunis, Egypt, Yemen fell, but Assad’s regime continues to fight…
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Minsk agreements cannot be implemented and the signatories of these agreements know about that. But they continue to play politics. Part 1.

The aim of this short analysis is to provide you with an insight on the Minsk agreements (shortly MA) and the practical impossibility to implement them into real life. These agreements were signed (even Russian experts admitted it) under time and external conditions pressure and possibly due to these reasons the texting and concrete measures…
