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Nickolay Yakovenko

Nickolay Yakovenko

Candidate for deputy to the Odessa City Council. Editor-in-chief of dumskaya.net. Editor-in-Chief at usionline.com. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickolay.yakovenko.1/

Pakistan's war in Afghanistan is killing hundreds. The world is watching Iran

Pakistan's war in Afghanistan is killing hundreds. The world is watching Iran

At around nine o'clock on Monday night, an airstrike tore through a drug-treatment hospital in eastern Kabul, a two-thousand-bed facility where men were being held for addiction recovery. By Tuesday the Taliban government was saying that at least four hundred people had died there, and

America and Israel are at war with Iran. No one can say where it ends

America and Israel are at war with Iran. No one can say where it ends

It began before dawn on Saturday, and by nightfall the shape of it was clear in everything but the detail that matters most. In a coordinated assault they called Operation Epic Fury, the United States and Israel struck across Iran, with Trump announcing "major combat operations" and Netanyahu

In Sudan, genocide is being documented in real time. That has changed nothing

In Sudan, genocide is being documented in real time. That has changed nothing

The reports landed this week, and they leave little to the imagination. In Geneva, the United Nations human rights office and the independent international mission established to investigate Sudan's war set out, in sober and exhaustive prose, what happened when the Rapid Support Forces took the Darfuri city

Washington wants Ukraine's war over by June. The front has not been told

Washington wants Ukraine's war over by June. The front has not been told

A war now has a date. Speaking to reporters this weekend, in remarks the Associated Press held under embargo until Saturday morning, Volodymyr Zelensky disclosed that the United States has handed Kyiv and Moscow a June deadline to reach a deal and end the fighting. Should the date pass, he

Armenia, Azerbaijan and the peace that lives in a photograph

Armenia, Azerbaijan and the peace that lives in a photograph

Five months on, the most concrete thing the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace has produced is still a photograph. You remember it: the American president centred in the frame at the White House, the hands of Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev folded into his, two men who spent three decades at war

Washington seized a president. Now comes the part it has no plan for

Washington seized a president. Now comes the part it has no plan for

Before most of Caracas had woken on Saturday, American aircraft crossed into a sovereign capital, lifted a sitting head of state from his home and were gone by first light. By Monday, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, stood in a Manhattan courtroom and pleaded not guilty to narco-

What role has the end of the Francafrique era played in France’s current crisis? How are France’s debt crisis and the loss of its influence in Africa connected?

What role has the end of the Francafrique era played in France’s current crisis? How are France’s debt crisis and the loss of its influence in Africa connected?

This material was published on October 2, 2025, on the website Meinbezirk.at. On 18 September, more than one million people across France took to the streets to protest against the austerity measures proposed by the government. Just ten days earlier, parliament passed a vote of no confidence in Prime