Putin is not Stalin, nor is he immortal
Five years ago somebody posted photographs on the internet showing a man who looked a lot like Vladimir Putin in photographs from 1920 and 1941....
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Is Turkey the beast we believe she is?
By Christos Panayiotides The other day I met a friend whom in previous years I would have called a nationalist. I directly posed the question:...
The case against Trump is he was being Trump
By Alper Ali Riza As US president you are not supposed to blackmail foreign powers that unless they dig up dirt on your political opponents...
Shot-down planes and collateral damage
One of the main causes of death for airline passengers in recent decades is being shot down by somebody’s military. Not the very biggest, of...
German firms cashing in on Greece-Turkey sea dispute
By Prometheus The war of confrontational declarations rages on in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea littoral states: statements and counter-statements, arguments and counter-arguments are exchanged on...
The two popes expose our priests’ inadequacy
I did not want to write about high priests, patriarchs and ethnarchs again, but then by chance, the other day, I happened to watch the...
Sexual conduct is a private passion
Why did the Cypriot police prosecute the British woman who complained she had not consented to having video-recorded sex instead of those who videoed her?...
The 10 critical issues for resolving the Cyprus problem
Christos Panayiotides identifies and analyses, in simple and easy to understand terms, the 10 critical issues, which the negotiators need to focus on in order...
Que sera sera
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I used to make New Year wishes and resolutions. No more! As Max Ehrmann said in his...
Changing priorities threatens viability of EastMed gas pipeline
With Europe no longer needing gas supply diversification and its sharpened green focus, is the pipeline more of a pipedream? By Charles Ellinas After a...
Why I visit the occupied part of Cyprus
By Christos Panayiotides Many people ask me why I occasionally visit the occupied part of Cyprus. There are many reasons. Most importantly, I go because...
Let the British girl walk. Let her go
By Alper Ali Riza The British teenager convicted of knowingly making a false statement to police in Cyprus about being gang raped by a group...
Hypersonic missiles just deterrence hype
Hypersonic missiles are not a terrifying new weapon. They are just another cog in the terrifying but remarkably stable strategy called nuclear deterrence. “The Avangard...
Memories of ‘Old Cyprus’ and multi-ethnic London
FIRST things first: Seasons greetings to all who read my weekly rant. Or, as a Nigerian cab driver told me years ago when he dropped...
The Archbishop is clueless
IT’S customary on Christmas for religious leaders to extol the virtues of love and peace, of solidarity to the poor, to those fleeing war and...
The fight against corruption should begin at home
I understand that a Cyprus Integrity Forum was organised last Monday to mark International Anti-Corruption Day. The forum was attended by the leaders of the...
Deadlock at Madrid, Firestorms in Australia
“The point of no return is no longer over the horizon,” warned UN Secretary-General António Guterres as the 25th climate summit (COP25) opened in Madrid...
That winter feeling
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn To my relief, summer is packed away in moth balls. Autumn crept in sweetly, gently as it always does...
Future of gas in Asia, and what it means for Cyprus
By Charles Ellinas This is a follow-up to the article I wrote two weeks ago about the future of gas in Europe and its impact...
The inherent contradictions in the Greek Cypriot positions
By Christos P. Panayiotides I HAVE identified a number of inherent contradictions in the positions taken by the Greek Cypriots in seeking a solution to...
