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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Cuban media, Russia and Cuba: Celebrating brotherhood through the years and across distances, dedicated to the 65th anniversary of reinstating diplomatic relations between Russia and Cuba, May 7, 2025

10:36 07.05.2025 Sergey Lavrov

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Cuban media, Russia and Cuba: Celebrating brotherhood through the years and across distances, dedicated to the 65th anniversary of reinstating diplomatic relations between Russia and Cuba, May 7, 2025

What brings us together so closely, so intimatelyand endears more and morethe land of snow and the island of coconut palms -my Russia and my Cuba?YevgenyYevtushenkoRussia and Cuba, 1963 On May 8, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Cuba will commemorate a momentous date which is the 65th anniversary …

Sergey Lavrov: “Almost all of Europe wages war on Russia under Nazi banners”

15:10 06.05.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “Almost all of Europe wages war on Russia under Nazi banners”

Almost all of Europe is engaged in conflict against Russia as these forces are rallied under Nazi banners, supporting Vladimir Zelensky’s regime in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "They have declared the goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on us on the battlefield like they did in the …

Russian market: Western sanction vs. “a smell of money”

11:52 06.05.2025

Russian market: Western sanction vs. “a smell of money”

Lawyers report interest in structuring activities to allow restart of trading with Russian entities: “There is a lot of money to be made!” Commodity traders, insurers and shipping groups are among western companies approaching lawyers for advice on how to restart trading with Russia, in preparation for a potential lifting …

View from Greece: Iberian mysteries – the Spanish blackout

11:46 06.05.2025

View from Greece: Iberian mysteries – the Spanish blackout

It’s unprecedented. In two European countries — both EU and NATO members — electricity was suddenly cut off. Two more countries, France and Morocco, were also affected by the blackout. Life came to a standstill in the two countries most heavily impacted: passengers were trapped in trains, airports plunged into …

Republicans unveil bill to bring 2025 military budget to over $1 trillion

11:45 06.05.2025

Republicans unveil bill to bring 2025 military budget to over $1 trillion

House Republicans unveiled a bill this week that would bring the 2025 US military budget to over $1 trillion, ‘The Hill’ reports. The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) totaled about $885 billion, and the new supplemental bill drafted by the House and Senate’s armed services committees would add $150 …

Trump’s minerals deal with Ukraine and Western propaganda

11:42 06.05.2025

Trump’s minerals deal with Ukraine and Western propaganda

This week’s breakthrough on an economic cooperation deal with Ukraine is unlikely to soften Russian President Vladimir Putin’s resistance to President Donald Trump’s peace plan — and the White House isn’t sure yet how to change that, writes POLITICO. While administration officials on Thursday publicly heralded the deal as a …

Reuters is nervous: Medvedev says nobody can guarantee Kyiv's safety if Ukraine attacks Moscow on May 9

11:02 05.05.2025

Reuters is nervous: Medvedev says nobody can guarantee Kyiv's safety if Ukraine attacks Moscow on May 9

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on Saturday that “nobody could guarantee that the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv would survive to see May 10 if Ukraine attacked Moscow during World War Two victory celebrations on May 9,” Reuters quotes with nervous anxiety. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared …

RFK Jr.: HHS became a ‘collaborator in child trafficking’ under Biden

11:00 05.05.2025

RFK Jr.: HHS became a ‘collaborator in child trafficking’ under Biden

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said that HHS is no longer facilitating child trafficking in the United States and is instead “very aggressively” searching for the hundreds of thousands of migrant children lost by the Biden administration. “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in …

WP: Trump administration plans major downsizing at U.S. spy agencies

10:59 05.05.2025

WP: Trump administration plans major downsizing at U.S. spy agencies

The Trump administration is planning significant personnel cuts at the Central Intelligence Agency and other major U.S. spy units, downsizing the government’s most sensitive national security agencies, according to people familiar with the plans, ‘The Washington Post’ reports. The administration recently informed lawmakers on Capitol Hill that it intends to …

Nigel Farage claims after election wins: “Reform UK is main opposition party”

10:57 05.05.2025

Nigel Farage claims after election wins: “Reform UK is main opposition party”

One Labour MP said: “It’s all very well for No 10 to say we’ve got to keep delivering. The problem is that it’s the stuff we’ve delivered that people hate.” Nigel Farage has claimed that Reform UK has overtaken the Conservatives as the main party of opposition after his party …

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