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Zelensky eyes spy satellite 

According to our sources, the Ukrainian defence ministry has entered talks with the French government about procuring a military observation

French government agonises over recovered ill-gotten gains 

The French government has started to recover millions of euros from foreign money-laundering convictions against the likes of Syrian businessman Rifaat Al Assad, Uzbek first daughter Gulnara Karimova, and Equatorial Guinea's Teodorín Obiang Nguema. A new development bill that will be debated by parliament this week could provide for the money to returned to the countries it was stolen from.

Ashgabat ramps up Caspian Sea and air defences with Ankara and Paris 

Turkmenistan, which has not officially reported any Covid-19 cases, is ploughing ahead with its defence procurement agenda.

Macron-Bolsonaro tensions may handicap Airbus in Brasilia 

The war of words between French president Emmanuel Macron and

How Tashkent spymaster was sacked 

Rustam Ionyatov, the feared head of the SNB, Uzbekistan's answer to the KGB, has paid for the vast purge that

Airbus's mine scandal hides battle between former royal trustees 

A fraud complaint that was filed to the Paris prosecutor's office recently against the mining company Pearl Gold, citing Airbus,

Ashgabat holds cards in space battle between Thales and Airbus 

Thales is battling hard to win the contract to supply an optical observation satellite to Turkmenistan. At stake is the industrial independence of Thales in geo-spatial intelligence.

Contacts behind EADS contracts 

Behind the French legal investigation into bribes allegedly paid by Airbus to Kazakh officials, it has emerged that the European

Minister Hassane Baraze Moussa brings in new experts 

Niger's minister of mines Hassane Baraze Moussa switched up his

Ian Davies behind the reins of Qatari copper project 

Scottish engineer Ian Davies took over the helm of QMSD Mining, a Sudanese subsidiary of Qatari public firm Qatar Mining,