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Zelensky's Ukraine: a new scandal, or where the keys to power lie 18:32 19.11.2025 Denis Baturin

Zelensky's Ukraine: a new scandal, or where the keys to power lie

In the midst of a corruption scandal whose scale and cynicism already surpasses the stories of Yanukovych's "dictatorial regime" overthrown by a pro-Western Maidan, Volodymyr Zelensky continues to "save face" issuing personnel decrees and holding talks abroad. All this against the backdrop of glaring problems inside Ukraine with the anti-corruption …
Bloomberg: Germans are running short on patience with their stumbling Chancellor 12:24 19.11.2025

Bloomberg: Germans are running short on patience with their stumbling Chancellor

When Friedrich Merz became Germany’s chancellor this year, he promised to revive a moribund economy, rebuild the nation’s neglected infrastructure and make the country relevant on the global stage again. His failure to deliver on many of these core issues has not only helped energize far-right parties like the Alternative …
WP: China’s new aircraft Supercarrier challenges U.S. dominance in Pacific 12:21 19.11.2025

WP: China’s new aircraft Supercarrier challenges U.S. dominance in Pacific

China’s efforts to blunt American maritime power in the Pacific, a region the United States has long considered its domain, received a major boost this month with the official launch of its third — and most advanced by far — aircraft carrier, the Fujian, ‘The Washington Post’ writes. The 80,000-ton …
View from London: Can a fragmented Europe continue to prosper? 12:19 19.11.2025

View from London: Can a fragmented Europe continue to prosper?

Why did Europe remain fragmented? – ‘The financial Times’ puts a question. For 1,500 years, European states competed with one another. Think of this as “the scorpions in a bottle” theory of European history. The scorpions needed to develop venomous stings to survive and prosper in this ferocious environment. They …
Hamas rejects UN Gaza resolution, says international force would become party to conflict 12:17 19.11.2025

Hamas rejects UN Gaza resolution, says international force would become party to conflict

Hamas rejected the United Nations Security Council passing a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan, saying it fails to meet Palestinians' rights and demands and seeks to impose an international trusteeship on the enclave that Palestinians and resistance factions oppose. "Assigning the international force with tasks and …
Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Qiang 1:00 19.11.2025

Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Qiang

Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Qiang, Kremlin informs. The Kremlin, Moscow, November 18, 2025 President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Li Qiang, I am delighted to meet with you again in Moscow. We have just held a …
Vladimir Putin met with the SCO Heads of Government 20:05 18.11.2025

Vladimir Putin met with the SCO Heads of Government

In the Kremlin’s St Catherine Hall, Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the heads of delegation attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting, Kremlin informs. Russia’s chairmanship of the SCO Council of Heads of Government ends in 2025. The Council met earlier today in Moscow …
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar 14:25 18.11.2025

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s talks with India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. On November 17, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who is in Moscow to attend a meeting of the SCO Heads of Government Council. The ministers discussed …
‘Al Jazeera’: Could Ukraine’s corruption crisis ‘lead to its military defeat’? 11:15 18.11.2025

‘Al Jazeera’: Could Ukraine’s corruption crisis ‘lead to its military defeat’?

A corruption scandal that involves Zelenskyy’s business partner, political allies, and a cast of presumed wrongdoers who profited from a nuclear power monopoly has roiled energy-starved Ukraine, ‘Al Jazeera’ notes. Observers told Al Jazeera that the scandal may ruin Zelenskyy’s approval ratings, enrage Western donors and cause a political crisis …
View from India: Syria comes in from the cold 11:13 18.11.2025

View from India: Syria comes in from the cold

With great prescience, late Henry Kissinger had once said, “You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt, and you can’t make peace without Syria.” The adage remains true even today. Syria has been an astute practitioner of diplomacy in its statecraft, which was not surprising given its origin …
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