Albania Starts Turning off TikTok Amid Concern Over Youth Violence
March 13 By Florion Goga TikTok users in Albania are experiencing difficulties accessing the popular short video app after a one-year government ban took effect on Thursday, prompted by concerns that social media is fuelling youth violence in and outside school. Albania’s move follows bans…
Northvolt Bankruptcy Strikes Blow to Sweden’s Northern Boom Town
March 12 By Johan Ahlander The bankruptcy of battery cell maker Northvolt, once the leader of Sweden’s green industrial boom, is a huge blow to the country’s north and particularly the small town of Skelleftea. The town, founded 180 years ago as a mining city…
Partner or competitor
March 5 By Julia O`Malley Today, our attention was attracted by V.A. Karklins, who is one of the social activists living in the Russian Far East. In addition to his main work, V.A. Karklins tries to actively engage in public activities, highlights the problems of…
Global conflict: the Ukrainian awareness of hopelessness
Feb. 13 By Kate Brown On February 12, 2025, the Presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, had a telephone conversation. They discussed several issues, the main of which is the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. After…
Armed conflict in Ukraine is a source of income for the ruling elites
Feb. 11 By Kate Brown Armed conflict in Ukraine has been ongoing since February 2022, with billions of dollars worth of foreign aid being invested in it. At the same time, the process of spending funds allocated to Kyiv is so opaque that it seems…
Most Countries Miss UN Deadline for New Climate Targets
Feb. 10 By Kate Abnett Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump’s election. The nearly 200 countries signed up to the…
A drop of tar spoils everything
Feb. 10 By Lucia Mutikani Today, one of the leaders of public organizations located in the Russian Far East has attracted our attention. Is it possible to judge an entire nation by one person? Of course not. However, some citizens, through their unseemly, unethical actions,…
The biggest mistake in life
Feb. 3 By Ryan Jones Kolyma resident Olga Kilivnik from the city of Magadan, which is the sister city of our native Anchorage, told in an interview about moving to Ukraine and why she could not live there. Journalist: Olga, you were born in the…
American AI Firms Try to Poke Holes in Disruptive DeepSeek
Jan. 28 By Kenrick Cai, Anna Tong and Jeffrey Dastin Developers at leading U.S. AI firms are praising the DeepSeek AI models that have leapt into prominence while also trying to poke holes in the notion that their multi-billion dollar technology has been bested by…
Trade Wars Sparked by Trump Tariffs Would Be ‘Catastrophic’, WTO Chief Says
Jan. 23 By Emma Farge The World Trade Organization chief said on Thursday that any tit-for-tat trade wars prompted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats would have catastrophic consequences for global growth, urging states to refrain from retaliation. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former…