by Editorial Staff The situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate as Russia intensifies its military campaign. Ukraine last week suffered perhaps its heaviest and most destructive attack with 190 missiles, 140 drones and 700 aerial bombs. Russia thus demonstrates to the West that it is highly resilient and persistent in its uninterrupted military campaign that [...]
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by Andrea Pinto Nothing stopped Vladimir Putin, with almost 90% (between 87% and 90%) of the votes, the modern day tsar reconfirms himself at the helm of the nation for the fifth time, setting a record: 24 years in power without solution of continuity. What is certain is that the victory was already clearly written […]
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by Francesco Matera Is it rhetorical or is something terrible really brewing? The fact is that Putin's threatening proclamations, followed by a trail of counter-arguments from some Western leaders, mitigated by the Pope's hope to "hoist" the white flag of peace and dialogue, are inexorably raising the bar of tension , in […]
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The Swedish flag has been flying at NATO Headquarters in Brussels since yesterday: it was hoisted alongside those of the other members of the Alliance. After two hundred years, Sweden abandons its position of neutrality by fully entering the Transatlantic Organization, alongside the other member countries in a particularly delicate moment for world balances. […]
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by Andrea Pinto The accusations, then the denials. The fact is that the opponent of Putin's regime, Alexei Navalny, has died and, according to some rumors revealed by various external sources, there is a noticeable bruise in the center of his chest on his body. Precisely that bruise inspires the different versions/backgrounds that are made in the press [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Kremlin has proposed to the Duma an amendment to the penal code which includes as crimes aversion to government policies in the war against Ukraine, discrediting the armed forces and supporting foreign sanctions against the State. The amendment received the support of the majority of the Lower House of the Russian Federal Assembly and soon […]
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The Baltic states argue that a victorious Putin in Ukraine could also attack NATO countries, starting with those located near the borders of Russia and Belarus. by Editorial Staff Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia are trying to prevent future events because the Russian threat could materialize with a Ukraine-style invasion. Since the day of independence from the former […]
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by Editorial Staff No new mobilization, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree regarding the assignment of citizenship to foreigners who sign a contract to serve in the Armed Forces. Next March's elections give Putin no other choice. This measure adds to the previous pardon granted to prisoners sent to the front, highlighting the commitment [...]
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Russia's unprecedented massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, in response to Kiev's launch of attack drones on Russian regions on its western border in the Belgorod area and near the capital Moscow. Mykolaiv, Odessa and Dnipro were hit simultaneously: one person died and several were injured. The debris of a […]
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by Editorial Staff The United States has imposed sanctions on companies in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and China to prevent the Russian defense industry from easily obtaining sensitive technologies for the continuation of the war in Ukraine. The measures involved over 250 entities, affecting the Russian economy in a sectoral manner. A provincial bakery was also sanctioned [...]
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by Editorial Staff In the last two months, Moscow has activated a network of Russian sleeper agents in Ukraine, according to Oleksiy Danilov, Ukrainian national security advisor. The goal is to destabilize the country, as the military conflict is at a standstill. The undercover agents were ordered to undermine Ukraine's unity by exploiting internal tensions. Despite the unity […]
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by Andrea Pinto Russia continues its special military operation in Ukraine by constantly bombing the occupied territories, demonstrating the stability of its arsenals, apparently inexhaustible and capable of replenishing themselves without interruption. Even if the population, in real life, begins to suffer from the war effort, according to Kremlin propaganda, the [...]
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The German newspaper DIE Welt has revealed a delicate issue concerning the probable supply of Russian gas to EU countries through a Turkish company that supplies Bulgaria thanks to a 13-year contract, even though the EU has declared that it wants to be totally independent from Moscow gas starting from 2027.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia despite warnings from Washington not to favor a deal to send weapons to Putin. Kim left Pyongyang for Russia on Sunday aboard his private train, accompanied by senior officials from the defense and military industry and the Foreign Minister.
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(by Andrea Pinto) While the Ukrainian attacks by drone in the Crimea and in the western part of Russia continue, Volodymyr Zelensky retracts the feeble openings on a possible path to peace, questioning the cession of some territories in Crimea. Referring to the recent assassination attempt on the head of Wagner Prigozhin, Zelensky thus retracted [...]
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"As part of the investigation into the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular genetic examinations have been completed," the Russian Investigative Committee said today, in a statement on Telegram. “Based on the results, the identities of all 10 dead who correspond to the list in the flight log have been established,” the investigators specify. The Russian federal agency […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) According to a military analyst and former Russian officer, Andrey Kartapolov, Russia wants to use its private militias to invade countries considered the "weakest links" of NATO. According to the former officer, the Wagner company could be used to conquer an area known as the Suwalki Corridor, a strip of land of 65 km [...]
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin invited at least 29 people to the Kremlin on June 35, including Prigozhin and the commanders of the battalions of the private military group. The meeting lasted almost three hours. After the march on Moscow Putin had labeled Progozhin a "traitor" now the admission of the meeting of [...]
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Tomorrow the NATO summit in Vilnius and Russia will be heard, given that the foundations will be laid for the future entry of Ukraine, Georgia and Sweden into the Alliance. The three cornerstones of the new strategic posture of the 31 NATO members will also be discussed in Vilnius, projecting the interests of the Alliance no longer only to the East but [...]
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Confirmation from the president of Belarus Lukashenko: "The fighters of the Wagner group are in their camps, their permanent camps, the ones where they have been since they left the front". Prigozhin, Lukashenko added yesterday, is not in the territory of Belarus but he is in St. Petersburg and perhaps this morning he went to Moscow. The news […]
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The Belarusian news agency Belta reported Lukashenko's words: “Prigozhin is in Belarus today and I asked Vladimir Putin not to eliminate Prigozhin. I told Putin we can kill him, it's not a problem. Either on the first try or on the second. But I asked him not to." The president of Belarus then [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday the saga continued on the motivations that prompted the leader of the Wagner Prigozhin to rebel against the established power, threateningly advancing towards Moscow from the territories battered by the war. Masquerade, high treason, shame of failure in the war in Ukraine, desire to expose imposters from the ranks […]
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One month after the expiry of the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain, Vladimir Putin told his senior military officials: “We are considering withdrawing from this agreement on grain. Many conditions that should have been applied have not been met." The announcement just after having affixed his signature on the decree that incorporates the Sea of Azov [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) A parade on May 9 in Moscow in a minor tone, few military means, the structures that menacingly paraded before the war are just a memory. A plastic and dramatic demonstration that denotes the damage suffered by the army in Ukraine. To highlight the probable decline of the armed forces (we are only talking about the means [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Putin's propaganda in support of the special military operation in Ukraine is centered on historical reasons, dating back to the empire of Peter the Great and on the narrative of the dangerous enlargement of NATO to Russia's borders. of NATO towards Russia is a thesis studied by many international observers and analysts who, [...]
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A former Russian security officer who defected last year told The Guardian about Vladimir Putin's paranoid lifestyle, confirming details of a network of secret trains, identical offices in different cities and a rigorous personal quarantine, followed by a capillary and sectoral security protocol. Gleb Karakulov, […]
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(by Francesco Matera) The new "Russian foreign policy doctrine", presented by Vladimir Putin during a meeting of the National Security Council on March 31, aims to adapt Russian diplomacy to the "upheavals that have occurred on the international scene". The deep rupture between Russia and Western countries caused by the invasion of Ukraine is confirmed. The Kremlin wants to move [...]
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(by Lorenzo Midili and Giuseppe Paccione) On the judicial level, something is moving around the figure of the one who for over a year has set in motion the aggressive war machine against a sovereign and independent country; we are talking about the Russian president Vladimir Putin, on whom an international arrest warrant is pending. This mandate is […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a "working visit" to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. This was announced by the Kremlin's press service, quoted by the Russian agency Tass. Putin has "inspected a number of places in the city and talked to local residents", explains Moscow, adding that the Russian president [...]
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The head of Lithuanian military intelligence said Russia has enough resources to continue the war in Ukraine for another two years at the current intensity. "The resources that Russia has right now would be enough to continue the war at the current intensity for two years," Lithuanian intelligence chief Elegijus Paulavicius told reporters. […]
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After a year of war we are preparing for the showdown: we sharpen our weapons for the spring assault
After a year of war there is no peace. United Nations votes against Russia. Der Spiegel: China ready to sell drones to Russia. The US allocates another 2 billion. G7: ready to give more help. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) The war in Ukraine today enters its first year without being able to see any on the horizon [...]
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The Military Historical Society under the patronage of the Russian Defense Ministry has set up a traveling exhibition entitled "Heroes with Eternally Russian Hearts". The exhibition consists of 48 panels where the Russian fallen in Ukraine are told. The phrase that stands out at the beginning of the exhibition: “In more than a thousand years of Russia's existence, […]
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A unilateral ceasefire. This was announced yesterday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the occasion of the Orthodox Christmas, which is celebrated on 7 January. The truce order takes effect today from 12 noon Moscow time until midnight tomorrow. Moscow, through the Kremlin website, has proposed to Kiev to do the same [...]
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Libya is far from peaceful. It is a powder keg ready to explode which will cause Italy a great deal of trouble, aware of the fact that over 600 refugees from all over Africa and the Middle East are massed in those lands. On the website of the Ministry of the Interior, data on migratory flows affecting our […]
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The White House has accused North Korea of arming the Russian private military company Wagner Group, which has deployed its mercenaries in Ukraine. John Kirby, US national security adviser, told the FT that North Korean deliveries - rockets and missiles - began last November but [...]
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Putin yesterday explained to one of the members of the Human Rights Council that Russia possesses nuclear weapons only for deterrent purposes, but it is not certain that it cannot use them first. Russia has specified Putin "will not use the atomic arsenal first under any circumstances, it means that it will not even use it [...]
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Something is moving in the face of the defeat of the Russian army. Raising the bar of war or favoring negotiations? This is the dilemma that is shaking the chancelleries of half the world and making the White House troubled. The Kremlin has sent, in fact, important signals to the US, opening Putin-Biden face to face at the G20 [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge that connects Russia to the Crimea, a fundamental hub for the logistical transit in favor of the troops engaged on the front. Moscow is sure about the principal: Kiev. This was also confirmed by an anonymous Ukrainian source to the New York Times. "The Ukrainian special services have ordered, designed and built [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) On the last day of September, a ceremony was held in the heart of the Kremlin, in which the tenant Vladimir Putin entered into treaties with the delegations of four entities established on Ukrainian territory, the so-called (farces) republics areas of Donetsk and Luhansk and the oblasts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Clearly, to reach [...]
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Weapon-of-destruction attacks on civilians and infrastructure, together with the absence of adequate and continuous humanitarian corridors, make the conflict in Ukraine a serious humanitarian emergency now within Europe. (by Vincenzo Gaglione) On February 24, 2022, with an invasion by the Russian armed forces, actually preceded already in the first months of 2021 [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) For weeks, the tenant of the Kremlin has been using nuclear weapons against the West that supports Ukraine, in order to obtain a victory that is increasingly distant. Moscow has communicated the outcome of the referendum (farce) for the annexation of the territories where the elections were held illegitimate or obtained by forcing citizens under the threat of [...]
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In Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia until Monday you can vote for the referendum on the annexation to Russia wanted by Putin, indeed you have to vote because it is the soldiers who, with guns drawn, look for citizens house by house. : there are no seats, you vote on the street, in the gardens and [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The news is reported on Corsera, some municipal deputies of St. Petersburg have drawn up a document, signed by about seventy colleagues from other cities, to ask for the resignation of President Vladimir Putin: "We Russian municipal deputies, we believe that Vladimir Putin's actions are harmful to the future of Russia and the [...]
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In 2019, in the course of investigating the Skripal poisoning, the investigative journal Bellingcat obtained metadata from the call logs of Maj. General Andrey Averyanov. These records, spanning the period from mid-2017 to late 2019, shed light on a vast spy network run by Russian military intelligence. The data of [...]
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Daria Dugina, 30, political commentator and daughter of Oleksandr Dugin - considered "Putin's ideologue" - died following the explosion of her car on the outskirts of Moscow. The incident took place around 21.45pm local time on Saturday near the village of Velyki Vyazomi, about 20 kilometers west of the capital [...]
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Yesterday Vladimir Putin in Koubinka, a town near Moscow, during an international arms fair boasted those in possession of the Russian army. Although some Western services have pointed out that Russia revealed its weaknesses during the war in Ukraine, the Russian president promised his allies "the most modern weapons of [...]
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(by Giovanni Ramunno) The two-phase move by the President of the Russian Federation, to annex Crimea first and then invade Ukraine, is a clear signal from the Kremlin that it wants to re-establish, at least in Europe, the spheres of influence, because they are still considered an incontrovertible fact of geopolitics. To achieve its objectives, Russia is convinced [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Draghi's resignation is like a cold shower for all Western chancelleries. Only Italy, in its healthy madness, manages to force a personality like Mario Draghi to resign. We have an important figure who is respected, but above all who is listened to, almost with reverence, by Washington and Brussels. To us, […]
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Diplomatic relations are fervent between the countries, everyone is looking for a way out for the issue of energy and wheat but also to re-establish a balance in the world order which has become more and more precarious every day and in function of the Ukrainian war. Almost all the states that are facing economic problems are affected by this new course [...]
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War of energy and wheat (by Massimiliano D'Elia) In the end Putin is probably succeeding in his crazy plan, which is not so crazy: to undermine Western democracies that for years have rested on the conviction of lasting peace guaranteed by NATO and the United Nations. Less convincing, however, is the Union's ability to influence [...]
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The Russian offensive on Kiev continues. Shortly after dawn, at 6:30 local time, some explosions were heard in the Ukrainian city. "Four explosions were heard, now there is black smoke over the city." According to reports from Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko on twitter, the missiles hit residential buildings. There is still no information on the damages and [...]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday sent another video to talk to his people: "the Black Sea will be safe and ours, everything will be rebuilt, Russia does not have enough missiles to break the Ukrainians' will to live". Meanwhile the Kiev Parliament has banned the import of Russian books and newspapers and [...]
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Yesterday Gazprom, the Russian state-owned energy company, returned to notify a further reduction of a third of its flows to the Old Continent through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, just a few hours after announcing a first drastic cut of the 40 %. The new development in the tug-of-war on methane supplies will bring [...]
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Russia opens to a peace intervention by the Pope. Poland is wary of a mission in Kiev by the Scholz-Macron-Draghi trio. Ukraine, on the other hand, presents a shopping list at the meeting of defense ministers to be held today at NATO in Brussels. On the ground, Severodonetsk is practically surrounded and the connections with Lisichansk are [...]
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Vladimir Putin is ill with cancer and escaped an assassination attempt in March. These are the conclusions of a secret report by the US 007 after the rumors that have been running around in recent weeks, according to what 'Newsweek' reveals, citing three executives from three different American intelligence agencies. In detail, the informants of [...]
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The Extraordinary Council of the EU Commission on Monday seemed a success. On the other hand, yesterday at the meeting of the ambassadors some clutches were reactivated. Not only the question of oil (we are still a long way off on the date for the interruption of transport by sea) now the question of Patriarch Kirill has also intensified the debate on sanctions against Russia. [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) At the end of March, the troops of the Russian Federation had withdrawn from the surrounding area of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, leaving many Ukrainian corpses scattered on the streets, some of which were shot, execution style, others tied up before suffering death, still others were hit by tanks. [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, participated in the military parade on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Altogether, 11.000 staff members and 131 units of military equipment were engaged in the parade. Russian fellow citizens, Dear veterans, [...]
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on the eve of the great parade to celebrate the victory over Nazism, addressed the message of good wishes to all the countries of the former Soviet bloc, including Ukraine, and to the two separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk: "As in 1945, the victory will be ours ". "Today our military, like their ancestors, [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Two antennas were hit in Transnistria, a pro-Russian territory, the country has put the security forces on alert. An ammunition depot went up in flames early this morning near the village of Staraya Nelidovka in the Belgorod region of western Russia, near the border with […]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) With unprecedented speed, the international community immediately responded to the demands of the Kiev authorities regarding the responsibility for international crimes committed on its territory by Russian troops and non-state actors flanking the special military operation wanted by Putin. This effort which is needed [...]
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"Russian troops have started the battle for Donbass," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last night. Many explosions were heard early in the night in Mykolaiv, east of Odessa. Bombings have also been reported in Kharkiv. A village in the Belgorod border region was reportedly bombed from the side [...]
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The pressure of the Russians on the city of Mariupol is getting harder, "If they continue to resist, they will all be eliminated". According to what was announced by Interfax, which quoted the spokesman of the ministry Igor Konashenkov, this is the message sent by the Russian Defense Ministry to the Ukrainian resistance barricaded in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, after [...]
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Purge within the FSB, the Moscow intelligence service, the former KGB. At least 150 officers have been dismissed by the security agencies because they are personally guilty of the setbacks suffered during the invasion of Ukraine. The news was disclosed by the London newspaper Times, primed by British intelligence sources. There's more: according to the English MI5, many [...]
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Kremlin spokesman Peskov said yesterday that “the operation could be completed in the near future. It continues, we are achieving our goals. Substantial work is being carried out both militarily, in terms of the progress of the operation, and through the negotiations that are being negotiated with the Ukrainian counterparts “. Everyone looks to May 9 when [...]
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The US Department of Defense is almost certain that Putin has given up on conquering Kiev, even if he does not slow down arms supplies to Ukraine, sending another 134 troops to favor a partial replacement of the soldiers who have already fought for over 40 days. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said yesterday at the conference [...]
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Yesterday Italy aligned itself with its Western partners by expelling 30 Russian diplomats who worked at the Russian Embassy in Italy. Berlin expelled 40, while France and Spain, respectively 35 and 25. The other countries of Europe follow: Romania, Sweden, Slovenia and Denmark. The spokesperson for the Moscow Foreign Ministry, Maria [...]
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Yesterday President Biden at the NATO summit said that if Russia uses chemical agents such as those launched in Syria "we will respond and the nature of the response will depend on the nature of their use". For the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, "Russian rhetoric aims to look for pretexts to prepare for the use of arms [...]
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Will it be propaganda or a (likely) tip-off from Russian intelligence passed under the table to the Ukrainian intelligence agency? Ukrainians argue that a conspiracy is underway by senior Russian government officials, with the aim of ousting (perhaps even by killing) President Vladimir Putin and fostering a negotiated agreement with the West. They thought about prudence [...]
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The repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the food market and the implementation of the CAP Strategic Plans at the heart of the EU Agriculture Council The situation of the agri-food market following the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the identification of measures aimed at guaranteeing food security in the 'EU in the aftermath of the crisis: these were the central points of the EU Agriculture Council [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Moscow has announced that for the first time in Ukraine it has used the Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability that are launched by a modified Mig-31. It is one of the six "next generation" weapons cited by Putin in his speech on March 1, 2018. A demonstration to the world that hypersonic technology [...]
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Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it is appropriate to learn more about the state apparatus that allows the modern Tsar, Vladimir Putin, to keep the whole world in check. Against a GDP of just over 1700 US dollars (year 2020), Moscow spends around 4 percent each year on military spending (70 [...]
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A condemnation of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine is contained in a letter signed by 4 teachers, academics, students, graduates and staff of the prestigious 'Lomonosov' Moscow State University, the oldest in Russia. 'We categorically condemn the war our country has waged in Ukraine', the document states. Meanwhile, Maria Ovsiannikova, the woman [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Putin's army thought that, as happened in the Crimea, taking Ukraine would be child's play, a quick and painless operation. In fact, the massive use of troops and vehicles in Ukraine was narrated to Russian public opinion as a "special operation", without ever uttering the word "war". But already after a few days the [...]
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The Russian air attack at dawn, near Lviv, targeted a military base (Ivano-Frankivsk) just 25 kilometers from Poland and seems to be a direct message from Russia to NATO and the EU. At the base there is also the International Center for Peace and Security (Ipsc) where the exercises were held last September [...]
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The FSB, the formerly feared KGB is under attack, this time not by foreign secret services but by Vladimir Putin himself. The president allegedly had the head of a division of the FSB arrested and his deputy, accusing them of not having duly informed him about Ukraine's resilience. According to what Andrei Soldatov reported on Meduza [...]
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The systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia have stopped transmitting data; yesterday there was a similar interruption from the Chernobyl site: the IAEA says it is "worried". Meanwhile Zelensky believes "that the threat of nuclear war is a bluff" by Putin. "Bombing a children's hospital is proof [...]
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"This war will last a long time" and "we must prepare": French President Emmanuel Macron said today during a visit to the Agricultural Fair. Macron has ensured that weapons will be sent to Zelesky while Biden has sent 350 million dollars. Meanwhile, the Russian para are trying to leave Kiev without light, but they were [...]
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(by Luca Fiorletta) A siren rings in the heart of Eastern Europe and reminds the Western world that war really exists, that it is not just an exotic or distant fact: its reality is such because it belongs to the human being and the man, you know, has always been the same. Not even the pandemic of our day [...]
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The West is compact in imposing sanctions on Russia, while on the ground the battle is pressing by the hour, with deaths and injuries registered. The Moscow bulletin reports 74 military targets destroyed, including 11 runways. According to the Ukrainian presidency, "more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and about 10 civilians have been killed". Another 18 victims, including [...]
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Last night Putin went to the facts, on live TV he recognized the independence of the two separatist republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, signing a decree and two collaboration treaties. Late at night the first Russian armored vehicles entered Donetsk, as a peacekeeping force, or to defend pro-Russian citizens from reprisals by the Ukrainians. Every […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) First night of quiet in the Donbass, after days of high tension with sabotage, bomb blasts and the first tests with the artillery attacks of both sides. The tension has risen because diplomacy has not achieved the desired results and because Moscow cannot afford, for a long time, to [...]
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The very latest on the crisis in the Donbass About 40 thousand refugees have fled the Donbass and arrived in the Russian region of Rostov. This was reported by the Interfax agency citing Alexander Chupriyan, interim minister for emergency situations. “More than 40 thousand people, who had to leave the neighboring regions, arrived in Russia. At this point […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the "peace" interventions in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2021 and in Kazakhstan in January of this year, the intervention in Syria in 2015 in support of Bashar Assad, in Libya in 2017 to protect Khalifa Haftar and the Wagner mercenaries scattered from Cyrenaica [...]
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While the CIA is almost certain, there will be an invasion on Wednesday, diplomacy is trying to avoid the irreparable. Unfortunately, from the conversation between the US and Russian presidents, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, there was not the hoped-for turning point, both have firmly reaffirmed their positions. Biden was peremptory: "in the event of an attack, the West [...]
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(Di Marinella Pacifico, member of the Senate Foreign Commission ”) Focusing exclusively on the military crisis in Ukraine is an exercise which, if not read with the right lens, risks stalemate in the heart of Europe. In the rest of the globe equally important games are being played, such as to determine the geopolitical assets for the spheres of [...]
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The crisis in Ukraine keeps the international community in suspense with Putin who seems to be screwing up on his own propaganda. While on the one hand NATO, the US and the EU are determined to maintain their position, the various European countries, in no particular order, speak with Putin trying to lead him to take, with conviction, the only path [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The Italian government participates in NATO exercises with the military to mark the territory in the Baltic and oppose Moscow's ambitions on Ukraine, while industry, also the Italian one, winks at Putin. Yesterday over two hours of "face to face", in remote conference, between the Italian industrial elite and Vladimi Putin who [...]
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The Times reports Putin's fear that the United States could deploy hypersonic missiles in Ukraine. "We are extremely concerned about the US global missile defense systems, we think they may be deployed close to Russia," Putin said yesterday at a meeting with his senior officials. Putin stated that [...]
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization - SCO - should mark the beginning of an alternative multilateralism that could unite the efforts of China and Russia, especially today, in the controversial Afghan landscape. The speeches at the Dushanbe summit by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping seem to point in this direction. The Afghan crisis is creating a convergence of interests [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) For some time now large-scale hacker attacks have occurred in the United States which, in some cases, have targeted critical infrastructures causing problems that are difficult to solve immediately and which have demonstrated, in a disarming way, the extreme vulnerability of States in the face of the virtual threat whose principal (often of state origin) is [...]
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Three hours of talks between foreign ministers and diplomats following the meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Corsera reports Putin's satisfaction expressed on his return home: “Biden, skilled and prepared, is concentrated, he knows what he wants. He flew from one continent to another, with the jet [...]
read moreMoscow must "ease tensions", this is the message that Joe Biden wanted to send to Putin after the siege of the Kremlin troops deployed close to the borders with Ukraine. At least 100 thousand units would be employed on the western borders by Moscow. Biden phoned the Kremlin tenant proposing a meeting in the coming months in a [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Turkish Parliament will meet in extraordinary session on Thursday 2 January at 14, when in Italy it will be 12, to anticipate the vote on President Erdogan's AKP motion authorizing the sending of troops to Libya in support of the government of national accord of Fayez al-Sarraj against the offensive of the militias of [...]
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The New York Times reported that Russian military announced last Friday that it had deployed a hypersonic weapon that manages to escape American missile defense systems, kicking off a new chapter in the long arms race between the two most important nuclear powers. in the world. American officials are hesitant about [...]
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Soon #Gazprom will announce the start of liquefied gas supplies to China through the “Power of Serbia” pipeline. With this work, Russia is preparing to conquer world leadership in the distribution of energy, in particular of liquefied gas. As Bellomo writes in Il Sole 24Ore, the Russian move will tend to [...]
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The failed White Sea missile test, which killed five Russian scientists, involved a small nuclear reactor. This was announced by a senior executive of the institute where the victims worked: the institute deals with sources of power on a limited scale, which use "radioactive material, including fissile and radioisotope materials", for [...]
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Other than Salvini, Savoini & co. With Russia the facts are done by Angela Merkel with Gazprom. Now with Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the EU Commission, the game is done. Fausto Carioti on Libero explains the details of the operation. Side by side, Putin's lobbyists, the team led by the Chancellor and the [...]
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Donald Trump, without consulting with the State Department, supported General Haftar, creating embarrassment also for Italy which found itself almost alone in supporting the Libyan contender Al Serraj, the only one legitimized by the international community. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from China had to review the Italian position: "Our position is not at [...]
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Russia on a par with China is very active in Africa. Weapons and logistical assistance, this is the bargaining chip with African countries to gain access to mineral and energy resources and territorial political influence. The countries where Russia is actively interfering are Libya, Sudan, Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mozambique, Angola. [...]
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, in an article published by the Russian newspaper "Kommersant", returned to talk about the recent controversy with US President Donald Trump, who in recent days threatened to "economically devastate" Turkey in the event that the latter "attacks the Kurds" in northern Syria. "Turkey is not looking for [...]
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The latest test was a success and Russia has new hypersonic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads at its disposal. President Vladimir Putin proudly announced it to the nation stating that the weapons could be operational as early as next year. Let's talk about the new strategic missile system, the Avangard, capable of hitting targets [...]
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Putin and his "Promethean bet" is simply to create chaos in the West, to avoid "encircling Russia". A chaos for chaos. The article published by Il Foglio is very interesting and is reported in the most interesting parts. The thesis of “Chaos as a strategy. Putin's 'Promethean' Gamble ", a report just released by [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has collected the support of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin with a single blow. At the Palermo summit on 12 and 13 November, the rank of participants is rising for the Libya dossier. Russia has confirmed the participation of the Russian premier [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is in Moscow these days, in a very "hot" moment for both countries. Italy is probably looking for a significant bank in light of two really important "issues" for the health and life of the yellow-green government. The rejection by the [...]
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According to what Putin said yesterday, speaking at the Valdai Forum, in Sochi, the ISIS terrorists have taken hostage almost 700 European and American citizens in areas of Syria controlled by pro-American forces. The Russian president added that the terrorists would have launched an ultimatum - without specifying its content - threatening to kill [...]
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After serving a 30-day administrative detention sentence for organizing unauthorized protests last January, Nalvalny, the Russian opposition leader, has just been released from prison and immediately arrested and put into a police car. The news was made known by his spokesperson by posting a message on Twitter explaining that [...]
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President Donald Trump, following repeated requests from Poland asking for a permanent military stay by the United States, said today that the United States is considering this request and that it shares Poland's concerns about possible aggression by the United States. of Russia. Poland has repeatedly requested [...]
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According to CNBC, Russia lost a nuclear-powered missile during a failed test last year, and now Moscow is preparing to go looking for it. According to reports from last May, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted at the beginning of March that his country had developed like no other [...]
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Several former US intelligence officials have called on their active colleagues to step down, despite President Donald Trump's turnaround over Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, the US president issued an unusual retraction and correction of the his public statement on Monday in Helsinki, Finland, in which it appeared [...]
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Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki for a "historic" summit, anticipated in recent days by hot statements by the American president. Trump advised British Prime Minister Theresa May to denounce the European Union for the Brexit affair and then officially indicated Europe as an opponent of the US on a par with China and Russia. Before arriving [...]
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France beat Croatia 4-2 and raised the most prestigious cup for the second time in history, after the 1998 triumph. Chirac at the time said: “a tricolor victory of many colors”, with reference to a multi-ethnic national team. French in the lead for an own goal by Mandzukic that touches a splendid free-kick by Griezmann. Draw for Perisic for [...]
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Trump complimented this week when Boris Johnson, the foreign minister, resigned because he was opposed to soft Brexit. A statement that Downing Street had not liked that the British tabloids had punctually revived and fed to the public opinion. A story that was undermining the meeting with Theresa May. Trump how often we [...]
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin could meet in Europe in the summer, at the NATO summit on 11 and 12 July. This was stated by the spokesman of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov to the news agency "Sputinik". The statements by the presidential spokesman follow the announcement made by Trump on Friday to the US media, on a possible bilateral with Putin in the summer. [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron yesterday tried to find a cause in their common unease over US President Donald Trump's actions on Iran, climate change and international trade. France disagrees with the Kremlin for its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine four [...]
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The French President, Emmanuel Macron, begins a two-day visit to St. Petersburg from today, where he will meet Vladimir Putin, and will participate in the International Economic Forum as a guest of honor together with the Japanese premier, Shinzo Abe. The French press reports, explaining that at the center of the talks between the two heads of state there will be [...]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Moscow on Wednesday 9 May. The prime minister's office explained that the meeting was recently decided during a phone call between the two leaders. Netanyahu was invited by Putin to attend the parade organized on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of Russia's victory [...]
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Two of the 103 missiles were found by the Syrian military, are in good condition, and were transferred to the Russian military and flown to Russia. On the morning of April 14, US warships, as well as French and UK air forces, hit military targets in Syria. The defense ministry of Russia provided [...]
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News that Russia hosted Bashar al-Assad's teenage children at a luxurious Black Sea summer camp in Crimea last year hints at the close link between the Syrian president and Moscow. Perched on the Crimean coast since 1925, the Artek Seaside camp has been a holiday resort for decades […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that further Western attacks in Syria would wreak havoc on the business world as Washington threatened to increase pressure on Russia with new economic sanctions. In a telephone conversation with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani, he agreed that the Western attack had damaged the odds [...]
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According to the international press, the urgent session of the Security Council will be held in about an hour at the United Nations building in New York following the bombings of Syria carried out by the United States, United Kingdom and France. Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the bombing of Syria [...]
read moreSergei Skripal, the Russian double agent who was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent in England earlier this month, wrote to the Kremlin asking to return to Russia, according to one of his old school friends. Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, remain in critical condition in the hospital, [...]
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Trump will soon meet Putin but, like the leaders of the various European countries, he is ready to expel Moscow diplomats from the United States after the story of the nerve gas used to eliminate former Russian spy Serghei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. Bloomberg reports that the decision may not be final. [...]
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Vladimir Putin won with a plebiscite, the exit polls give him well over 70% of the preferences, for the Fom polling center it would even be 77%, while all the other challengers trudge in the dust, with single-digit percentages. To save himself is' only the communist 'with the Rolex' Pavel Grudinin, the only one able to overcome [...]
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The Russians are committed to the presidential elections and to give Vladimir Putin a victory considered by many to be a fugitive, as a large number of voters will not take part in the consultations due to the result, which is too predictable. The polls put Putin at around 70% compared to his rival who is still 10%. Another mandate will bring him [...]
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Twenty-three Russian diplomats expelled and assets will likely be confiscated from officials and businessmen. The premier, Theresa May, reported to the House of Commons the "strong and robust response" to what is certain are Moscow's "faults" in the attempted murder of the former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury, on the 4th [... ]
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The British prime minister said yesterday in parliament that it is "highly likely" that the nerve agent used to attack the former Kremlin 007 in England last week was developed by Russia. But sources in London told the BBC that the British government will not invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization […]
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The Labor newspaper "The Guardian" writes in an article that the Kremlin is satisfied with the outcome of the Italian political elections. According to Putin, the victory of the Salvini League and the pentastellati could bring Italy closer to Russia in foreign policy. In the article, the correspondent from Rome Stephanie Kirchgaessner notes that very little was said in the election campaign [...]
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According to reports from the “Sputnik” news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview released to the international media, stated that Russian citizens, accused of interfering in the 2016 US presidential elections, did not represent the Moscow authorities. “I know that the accused citizens do not represent the Russian state and institutions. Not […]
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On the Baltic Sea, during the "truth and justice" forum in the north-west of Russia in Kaliningrad, Vladimir Putin, after announcing yesterday the existence of the super missile, talks about a new mission for Russia. The message to the nation was not simply an election campaign announcement, but a further turning point in foreign policy. After, the interview with [...]
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President Putin confirmed that Russia is in possession of hypersonic weapons and recalled that all countries with high scientific potential "are actively developing hypersonic weapons". "Russia already has this type of weapon," Putin said. The Kinzhal hypersonic complex has been in service in the Southern Military District since the first [...]
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As announced by the Nova agency, the Kremlin does not always provide updates on direct contacts between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Crem, told the television broadcaster "Rossija 1" that "such meetings take place, even if we do not realize it". According to the spokesman for the presidency [...]
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Russia is looking for financial engineering solutions to circumvent the imposed sanctions that inevitably tie Moscow's economy. Here, then, is the “cryptorube”: an electronic currency to be used to carry out international trade, circumventing sanctions. This was reported by the Financial Times citing a speech by Sergei Glazev, economic adviser to President Vladimir Putin. On [...]
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Officially an independent candidate, the Kremlin leader started his election campaign for a fourth presidential term by participating in an event of his "United Russia" party. The party represents "a great force of unity for the country", declared Vladimir Putin, promising to continue on the path of renewal of Russia. The prime minister […]
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called Donald Trump on the phone, to thank him for the information provided by the CIA that made it possible to foil a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. The information, the Kremlin said in a statement, "helped locate the trail, find and arrest a group of terrorists who were preparing explosions in the cathedral [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned state and private defense companies to be ready to quickly transform their production in view of an upcoming war. So the Kremlin tenant reports the British Sky News network, he addressed the officials of the Defense Ministry on Wednesday, ordering that the companies in the sector [...]
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The Day of Russian National Unity was established following the amendment of article 1 of the federal law on the days of military honor of Russia of December 24, 2004. The new day of national holiday, as noted by the news agency “Sputnik ", Approved by the initiative of the Religious Council of Russia, was celebrated for the first time [...]
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According to the NOVA Agency, the situation in Syria and possible developments in cooperation for the stabilization of the local scenario could be the issues at the center of the talks between the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, during their next meeting scheduled on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Summit [...]
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will meet today the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during his visit to Tehran. This was stated by the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitrij Peskov, who illustrated the progress of the visit already announced in Iran. “The president will be on a working visit to Iran. There will be a Russian-Iranian bilateral talks. One [...]
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US investigators from Russiagate believe that the local oligarch Ievgheni Prigozhin, nicknamed by the local oligarch Ievgheni Prigozhin, has been financing the Russian technology company "Internet Research Agency" (IRA) in St. Russian media "Putin's chef". CNN reports this, citing anonymous investigative sources. In […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, during an official ceremony held in the Kremlin, once again condemned the nuclear and missile tests conducted by the North Korean regime in violation of UN resolutions, underlining how "militaristic rhetoric is dangerous". "We condemn the decisions taken by Pyongyang in violation of the resolutions of the UN Security Council, but feed the rhetoric [...]
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Putin will meet Erdogan in Ankara on September 28, focus on Syria and S-400 It is learned from Agenzia Nova that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will meet his Turkish counterpart, Erdogan, next Thursday. Erdogan announced this in a speech at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, adding that before the meeting in Ankara he will have a telephone conversation [...]
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Silvio Berlusconi, Forza Italia leader, spoke at the convention "Italy and the Europe we want" organized in Fiuggi by the president of the EU Parliament, Antonio Tajani said: "With the tightening of the sanctions, the spirit of 2002 has been lost , when the US and Moscow signed the Pratica di Mare agreement thanks to my friendship with Bush and Putin. [...]
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Moscow and Ankara have reached an agreement on the supply of Russian-made S-400 anti-missile aircraft to Turkey. The contract has already been signed and a first payment has already been made, as anticipated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The delivery of these devices to Turkey satisfies the geopolitical interests of the Federation [...]
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According to reports from the Kommersant newspaper, everything would be ready in Russia to launch Vladimir Putin's candidacy for president in the elections scheduled for next year. The newspaper reads that the election campaign strategy is almost ready and that it was discussed last week, in a meeting of the "political bloc" of [...]
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Tension skyrocketing on the Korean peninsula. A few days after launching a missile that flew over Japan, North Korea conducts its sixth nuclear test since 2006, the most powerful yet, and announces that it has tested a hydrogen bomb with "perfect success". A decisive escalation in the tension between Pyongyang on the one hand, [...]
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Of course international politics is strange and twisted. Angela Merkel presses to continue on the path of sanctions against Russia and then it turns out that Siemens, the German industrial giant, has a supply of gas turbines in progress, again for Russia. Turbines which, as it turned out, have already been placed in the Crimea. [...]
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, will support the congressional bill that identifies new sanctions on Russia. This was assured by White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders. "The Trump administration is in favor of being harsh on Russia, in particular to implement these sanctions," he said in an interview with the broadcaster [...]
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Putin and Trump at the G20 met "repeatedly". Dmitri Peskov, Vladimir Putin's spokesperson for press reports on the "secret" meeting between White House leader Donald Trump and the head of the Kremlin, on the sidelines of the G20, says he is "surprised". According to Peskov there was no second secret meeting, as it was planned and [...]
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US President Donald Trump, under attack at home for his Russian connections and abroad for statements at the G20 in Hamburg on climate change and trade, has arrived in Paris to find common intentions with the new French leader Emmanuel Macron . Macron hopes, for his part, to be able to elevate the role [...]
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Directed to St. Petersburg, the relics of St. Nicholas, which since May 22 have been venerated by almost two million faithful, who have flocked to different parts of Russia and are willing to wait up to 11 hours to access the reliquary - have been transferred from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. After a liturgy, [...]
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Donald Trump tries to get out of the Twitter-Fox bubble and gives an interview to Pat Robertson of the evangelical TV Christian Broadcasting Network which will air today. The American president has returned to speak after the scandal involving his son, Donald Jr, who met with a lawyer linked to the Kremlin for "compromising information" [...]
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