The organized crime syndicate controlled around one third of the cocaine trade in the bloc’s countries, according to Europol A sprawling cocaine “super cartel” has been taken down in the EU in a series of coordinated law enforcement raids, Europol announced on Monday. The raids, dubbed ‘Operation Desert Light’, were carried out in Spain, France,…
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The lessons of the 2008 Georgia conflict went unheeded by Washington and Kiev, Russia’s deputy envoy to the UN has claimed The West is treating Ukraine as a proxy against Russia to be used and abandoned, the same way it previously treated Georgia, Moscow’s deputy envoy to the UN Dmitry Polyansky has said.