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Russian SVR chief holds phone conversation with CIA boss

10:55 14.03.2025

Russian SVR chief holds phone conversation with CIA boss

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin has spoken on the phone with his CIA counterpart, John Ratcliffe, with both agreeing to maintain regular contact, RT reports. During the conversation the heads of the two agencies agreed to maintain a dialogue in order to “promote international stability and security, …

Greenland election results: Center-right opposition wins amid Trump saber-rattling

10:53 14.03.2025

Greenland election results: Center-right opposition wins amid Trump saber-rattling

The Democrats party comes first after its leader hit back at the U.S. president who wants to take over the Arctic island, writes POLITICO. The center-right Democrats defeated the governing left-wing coalition in Greenland’s election, while a pro-U.S. party recorded its best result ever in Tuesday’s vote. The Democrats party, …

ECB Christine Lagarde: “Trade, defence shocks risk amplifying euro zone inflation”

10:51 14.03.2025

ECB Christine Lagarde: “Trade, defence shocks risk amplifying euro zone inflation”

The euro zone economy is facing exceptional shocks from trade, defence and climate issues, possibly amplifying inflation volatility and raising the risk that price growth becomes more persistent, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday in a speech in Frankfurt. "Our expectations have indeed been swept aside in the last …

Mourning in London: “Losing Kursk – a big blow to Zelensky”

10:50 14.03.2025

Mourning in London: “Losing Kursk – a big blow to Zelensky”

After eight months of fighting on Russian soil, Ukrainian troops are pulling back from the Kursk region, ‘The Spectator’ confesses. Russian forces raised their flag over Sudzha and are now closing in on the last 50 square miles of Ukrainian holdouts. The retreat couldn’t come at a worse time for …

Vladimir Putin: Russia was not against this proposal of the idea of an interim ceasefire but a lot of nuances had to be considered

21:43 13.03.2025

Vladimir Putin: Russia was not against this proposal of the idea of an interim ceasefire but a lot of nuances had to be considered

Russia is in full control of the situation in the Kursk Region and the Ukrainian combat group is completely blocked, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference after talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in the Kremlin on Thursday, TASS informs. "The situation is fully under our …

Vladimir Putin made a visit to a command post of the Kursk group of forces

13:48 13.03.2025

Vladimir Putin made a visit to a command post of the Kursk group of forces

Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting at a command post of the Kursk group of forces, Kremlin informs. Chief of the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces – First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov: “Comrade Supreme Commander-in-Chief, The detachments of the Sever Group of Forces continue ...

US mulls how to ease Russia energy sanctions quickly if war ends, sources say

12:51 13.03.2025

US mulls how to ease Russia energy sanctions quickly if war ends, sources say

The U.S. government is studying ways it could ease sanctions on Russia's energy sector as part of a broad plan to enable Washington to deliver swift relief if Moscow agrees to end the Ukraine war, according to two sources familiar with the matter, Reuters reports. Russia is among the world's …

Europe is suddenly in a hurry – “One is either at the table or on the menu”

12:49 13.03.2025

Europe is suddenly in a hurry – “One is either at the table or on the menu”

Apparently, the U.S. administration’s overtures to Russia and its suspension of military assistance to Ukraine reminded the continent’s leaders of the cynical adage that one is either at the table or on the menu, writes POLITICO. “There is only one thing that counts, and that is speed,” Danish Prime Minister …

The Atlantic: “We are living in the Age of Vladimir Putin”

12:49 13.03.2025

The Atlantic: “We are living in the Age of Vladimir Putin”

Historians like to play a parlor game called periodization, in which they attempt to define an era, often by identifying it with the individual who most shaped the times: the Age of Jackson, the Age of Reagan. Usually, this exercise requires many decades of hindsight, but not so in the …

‘The American Conservative’: “Yes, Zelensky is a Dictator! There is no need to sugar-coat the Ukrainian regime”

12:48 13.03.2025

‘The American Conservative’: “Yes, Zelensky is a Dictator! There is no need to sugar-coat the Ukrainian regime”

President Donald Trump enraged Ukraine’s usual band of cheerleaders in the United States and Europe when he called Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator. Their reaction was similar to the sputtering outrage that townspeople directed at the boy who dared insist that the emperor had no clothes, notes ‘The American Conservative’. Zelensky’s …

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