Factal’s weekly look at the news coming up. This week the Forecast looks at Anti-government protests breaking out in Sri Lanka, Russia-backed South Ossetia holding elections, Somalia swearing in parliament, and more.
In this week’s forecast we’ve got Russia resuming air travel with 52 “friendly” countries, a presidential election in the Russia-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia, a trucker convoy headed for Los Angeles, Somalia swearing in members of Parliament and anti-government protests in Sri Lanka.
In this week’s forecast we’ve got Shanghai’s coronavirus lockdown, a strike by Tunisian journalists, several elections, the Senate Judiciary Committee voting on a Supreme Court nomination. There’s also deeper looks at the recent attacks in Israel and Russia’s changing invasion plans.
This week’s interview is with Factal Editor Agnese Boffano. Jimmy Lovaas and Boffano discuss the JCPOA ending the eighth round of negotiations between Iran, China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, Germany and the EU. Also covered is the EU head of state meeting in Versaille, the Turmenistan election, elections in Colombia, and France lifting their vaccine passport rules.
“We had to relearn on the fly how to process what quickly devolved into an information environment none of us had seen before,” explained Alex Moore, Factal’s Eastern European editor, who has covered the Russian-Ukraine conflict for several years.
Top photo: Trucks block an intersection at University Avenue and Bloor Street in downtown Ottawa on Saturday, Feb. 5. Photo by michael_swan on Flickr. Listen…
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