Independent Catalonia to Be EU Member – Catalonia's Chief Communicator
Catalan government’s Director for Foreign Communications has commented on the region's prospects following the independence referendum.
Catalan government’s Director for Foreign Communications has commented on the region's prospects following the independence referendum.
It looks like Polish tax officials feel free to obtain information any way they please, including by bugging suspected tax dodgers’ phones, emails and intercepting their air or snail-mail parcels. Neither do they need any court order to do this, which is something even law enforcement has to obtain, Sputnik contributor Tomasz Dudek told Sputnik.
Take a glimpse into some of the most interesting and significant events of this week.
While space research opens new opportunities in space exploration, more and more countries unite in their efforts to realize their dreams of exploring Mars and colonizing the moon.
As Madrid has apologized for police violence during the Catalonia referendum, the leaders of Catalan pro-independence groups have appeared in court to testify over suspicions of calls for rebellion and may face up to 15 years of imprisonment if found guilty.
Female Peshmerga detachments have been fighting Daesh terrorists in the areas of Mosul, Bashi, Sinjar and Kirkuk for the last three years. Some of the women fight to avenge their sisters, others to defend their homeland. Sputnik spoke with some of these fearless warriors in an interview.
Despite Grant Shapps' attempts to topple UK Prime Minister Theresa May, she seems to be quite sure in her leadership skills.
Leading insurers from around the world have taken action to withdraw support from fishing vessels which are illegally plundering the seas. The initiative was launched at a conference in Malta on Friday, October 6.
Swedish feminist artist and writer Ulla Lundegård has sparked a controversy with her opinion piece, in which she expressed support of plural marriage, while also taking a swing at traditional family structures.
The Kremlin has commented on the Nobel Prize Committee's awarding the 2017 Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
Our program begins by explaining what Polish politician meant when he accused the EU of “Euroracism”.
The Catalan parliamentary session dedicated to the issue of Catalan referendum is likely to take place next Tuesday, October 10.
Turkey reportedly continued efforts to reinforce its border with Syria.
The Ukrainian Security Service has initiated a public discussion on a bill introducing criminal penalties against the country's civil servants, visiting Russia.
In the 1950s, mankind produced less than two million tonnes of plastic waste. Fast forward 60 years and we are getting through more than 320 million tonnes each and every year. Plastic takes hundreds of years to biodegrade. Now plastics are entering our food through fish, and at last something might be done about it in the UK at least.
Delia Bronkhorst was on a safari trip watching a huge herd of buffalo at South Africa’s Kruger National Park when something unusual caught her eye – it was a mongoose swinging back and forth on a snake hanging from a tree.
Several days after the independence referendum was held in Catalonia resulting in multiple clashes between the vote's supporters and police, the Spanish government has approved a legislation to help businesses based in the region amid the uncertainty of Catalonia's future.
The capabilities of the Kalibr cruise missiles allow for destroying the most important terrorist targets in Syria. On Thursday, Russian submarines launched two missile strikes against Daesh.
Despite its recently released report claiming that Russia-linked entities allegedly bought $100,000 worth of political ads before and after the US presidential election, Facebook has decided to omit Russia references from its April 2017 white paper covering the influence on the public opinion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Switzerland reportedly expressed readiness to provide a mediation platform for talks between Spain's government and Catalonia amid the standoff over region's independence.
Published by US lawmakers, a draft of the Liberty Act - legislation said to curtail the sweeping domestic surveillance powers of the National Security Agency - may not be quite so restrictive.
The Russian Foreign Ministry thinks that the Greece's decision to extradite Russian citizen Vinnik to the US violates international law.
The ongoing scandal over the US tech giants Amazon and Apple, which have been ordered by the European Union to repay Luxembourg hundreds of millions of euros in back taxes could complicate the ongoing negotiations over a trade treaty between the EU and the US, a Dutch tax law expert told Radio Sputnik.
Wild boars with radiation levels over ten times above the safety limit have been shot in central Sweden, triggering fears about the future of local hunting and agriculture.
As the Nobel Peace Prize was given to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons earlier in the day, Assange has commented on the committee's choice this year.