Zbigniew Brzezinski

With Poland, which already hosts a growing number of Belarusian exiles, immediately offering the 24-year-old sprinter a humanitarian visa, Timanovskaya took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo until a flight to Warsaw could be arranged. Contrary to expectations, she didn't fly directly to Warsaw, but took a detour to the Austrian capital Vienna instead.

New players who were on the sidelines of the Cold War's bipolar global order have now rejoined the fray. Despite the global financial crisis, the "Middle Kingdom" has conquered a place on almost all of the world's playing fields. Beijing has positioned itself to challenge the dollar as the global reserve currency and extend its position of power throughout the world.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who passed away on May 26, 2017 at the age of 89, was one of the U.S.'s most highly praised foreign and security policy gurus of the past half-century.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.

In recent days, an impressive article presenting Zbigniew Brzezinki, political guru and former U.S. National Security Advisor, has been circulated on Turkey's social media. "Top U.S. National Security Official Admits Turkey Coup," its title reads. It then explains: 

A Moscow-friendly Greece could paralyse NATO's ability to react to Russian aggression, former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned March 25.
      
Athens could use its veto to slow the alliance's response if Russia set its sights on its Baltic member states, he told Poland's Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
      

"Give Russia guarantees Ukraine won't join NATO"

WARSAW -- Former U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has called for the arming of Ukraine "with defensive weapons."

He at the same time warned that Russia must be given guarantees that "a free, democratic Ukraine" will not seek to join NATO.

"World Shadow Government" group meets in Belgrade

BELGRADE -- The Trilateral Commission is holding a regional meeting of its European group in Belgrade from Friday until Sunday.

In it report, Tanjug noted that the group is "frequently referred to as 'World Shadow Government'."

BELGRADE - Trilateral Commission, frequently referred to as "World Shadow Government", will hold the regional meeting of its European group from Friday to Sunday in Belgrade.