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By Marilena Evangelou & Yiannis Seitanidis The imposition of severe economic sanctions in Russia has made the daily life of those Cypriots who are in the country for work or ...

By Achilleas Demetriades On February 23 I submitted my resignation from the post of president of the Human Rights Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association (CBA) during a Committee meeting. I ...

It can start by countering Putin’s information strategy By William Partlett With an all-out war on Ukraine underway, a key question has emerged: what can the West do to ...

Cyprus LNG plant vs the East Med pipeline in the context of Greek-Turkish and geopolitical tensions By Panayiotis Tilliros According to John Mearsheimer, the eminent American international relations scholar, “what ...

By Maria Demertzis In the 2020 revision of monetary policy strategy, the US Federal Reserve adjusted the pursuit of an inflation rate at 2 per cent, to inflation that ‘averages 2 per cent ...

By Liz Truss Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine exposes Vladimir Putin’s regime for what it is: mendacious, bellicose and calculating. His Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, told ...

By Beth Daley, Have you wondered why cats are so nimble and seem to fit perfectly in cups, boxes and other small places? Or how cats communicate with humans? Marc ...

By Christian Yates, There cannot be many people who wouldn’t want to return to the carefree ways of 2019. To be free from the concern that you might unknowingly spread ...

The buffer zone in old Nicosia is a perfect opportunity for a high impact Confidence Building Measure By Glafkos Constantinides Confidence Building Measures (CBM) are back in fashion, a kind ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Cyprus’ GDP decline in 2020 was confined to 5 per cent, despite disruptions in international trade, supply chains and air transport. At the same time, unemployment ...

By Daniel Meron Two years into the pandemic, nations across the globe are still struggling to cope with the profound challenges that coronavirus poses. Israel’s ability to deal with ...

If we want a solution, we must be willing to part with old ways, and make women not only a part but an indispensable part of the peace process By ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Developments in the global economy, the effects of the pandemic and the collapse of the “state of corruption”, all call for a new model of economic development ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi Over three decades ago, Ukraine decided to embark on the path of freedom and democracy, a course it has maintained to this day. With the collapse of ...

By Maria Demertzis The Maastricht treaty, signed thirty years ago this year, committed European Union countries to the greatest step in integration they’d so far taken. It established European ...

I rarely ordered home delivery a decade or so ago. It wasn’t that big a part of the culture, beyond the odd once a week souvlaki or the usual ...

By Kenton White, During the tense negotiations over the Ukraine crisis, the idea of “Finlandizing” Ukraine has been suggested as a solution. This idea refers to the way a small ...

By Les Manison Although the date of the presidential elections is still 12 months away there is already excessive attention being focused on the prospects of the many potential candidates. And ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Someone travelling within the European Union may wonder why they have to present a passport/ID when they leave Cyprus to enter an EU member state, whereas ...

By Richard Alston As with every humanities discipline, classics has responded to Black Lives Matter with justifiable introspection. As the study of the ancient world, and particularly that of the ...

By Shashi Kant Yadav The European Commission has decided that power plants burning natural gas can be considered generators of green energy. This means they can count as sustainable investments ...

The 10-year-long Libyan crisis remains a significant international problem as a source of instability and violence in the region. Attempts to find solutions to overcome the situation in Libya have ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Climate change is on our doorstep. There is an urgency to address this global concern and Cyprus cannot drag its feet on this any longer. No individual ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The circulation of the euro began 20 years ago, two years after it was formed virtually. This article aims to critically evaluate the evolution of ...