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NYT: Zelensky dismissed any idea of truce with Russia

16:33 20.04.2025

NYT: Zelensky dismissed any idea of truce with Russia

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that he had ordered his forces to “stop all military activity” from Saturday evening through Sunday. Ukraine’s leader said Putin was trying to “play with people’s lives,” ‘The New York Times’ writes. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ordered his forces to “stop …

View from Washington: Estonia tries to provoke Russia

10:37 20.04.2025

View from Washington: Estonia tries to provoke Russia

Small Estonia has the capacity to cause big problems that could spark a more direct war between Russia and Europe, stresses Stephen Bryen, a former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Estonia is the most northern of the Baltic states. It fronts on the Baltic Sea where its capital city, …

‘Eurasian Times’: End of road for Erdogan’s ‘Pan-Turkism’? – Big setback for Turkey as three Central Asian nations support Cyprus’s sovereignty

10:34 20.04.2025

‘Eurasian Times’: End of road for Erdogan’s ‘Pan-Turkism’? – Big setback for Turkey as three Central Asian nations support Cyprus’s sovereignty

In a major setback for Turkey, three Central Asian republics and members of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, have come out in support of Cyprus’s sovereignty, effectively ending Ankara’s efforts to use the OTS as a vehicle for recognition of the occupied north Cyprus, writes …

WP: As Ukraine-Russia talks founder, Trump’s attention wanders

10:30 20.04.2025

WP: As Ukraine-Russia talks founder, Trump’s attention wanders

Ukraine, it turned out, wasn’t a problem that could be solved “in a day,” notes David Ignatius, ‘The Washington Post’ columnist covering foreign affairs. Trump’s impatience was evident as he discussed a peace process he vowed during the 2024 campaign would be easy to navigate. “If for some reason one …

‘The Guardian’: We must call Western sanctions a “tool for entrenching and prolonging dictatorship”

10:29 20.04.2025

‘The Guardian’: We must call Western sanctions a “tool for entrenching and prolonging dictatorship”

Sanctions as a form of economic aggression are macho and myopic, yet countries including the UK refuse to call a halt. We might as well call them a tool for entrenching and prolonging dictatorship, notes ‘The Guardian’. Among the more improbable countries that Donald Trump punished most severely last week …

Vassily Nebenzia following the UNSC consultations on Ukraine: “In these circumstances, to speak about a ceasefire is simply unrealistic at this stage”

20:25 19.04.2025

Vassily Nebenzia following the UNSC consultations on Ukraine: “In these circumstances, to speak about a ceasefire is simply unrealistic at this stage”

Remarks to the press by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia following the UN Security Council consultations on Ukraine. Nebenzia: Colleagues, we have just finished closed consultations of the members of the Security Council on the situation around the implementation of the 30-day moratorium between Russia and Ukraine on mutual energy infrastructure …

Starmer’s Labor worst nightmare – ‘Reform’ party would sweep through election. Shock poll reveals as 68% think Britain is broken

9:55 19.04.2025

Starmer’s Labor worst nightmare – ‘Reform’ party would sweep through election. Shock poll reveals as 68% think Britain is broken

Britain is broken, according to more than two-thirds of voters, in a key political battleground. Polling agency ‘Survation’ spoke to voters in the North West, North East, Yorkshire, and East and West Midlands — areas where in last year’s General Election Labour reclaimed scores of seats that they lost in …

SVR: Eurofascism, just as 80 years ago, is the common enemy for Moscow and Washington

9:53 19.04.2025

SVR: Eurofascism, just as 80 years ago, is the common enemy for Moscow and Washington

The official SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation) website published this article. The translation presented by SVR Press Bureau. Retrospective analysis of Western states’ policy testifies to a "historical predisposition" of Europe to various forms of totalitarianism that periodically produces devastating global-scale conflicts. According to experts’ opinion, the …

Moscow will regard a strike by German Taurus missiles on Russian targets as Germany's participation in the conflict in Ukraine

9:50 19.04.2025

Moscow will regard a strike by German Taurus missiles on Russian targets as Germany's participation in the conflict in Ukraine

The leader of the German conservatives from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the likely German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, announced his readiness to supply long-range Taurus missiles to Kiev in coordination with European allies. This decision is not supported by his junior coalition partners, the Social Democrats. Meanwhile, the Kremlin warned …

CNN: North Korea unveils new 10,000-home showpiece residential district

9:48 19.04.2025

CNN: North Korea unveils new 10,000-home showpiece residential district

As North Korea slowly emerges from five years of self-imposed pandemic isolation, a glittering new high-rise neighborhood in the capital Pyongyang is taking center stage, CNN reports. Photos of the 10,000-apartment development, released by state news agency KCNA after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un inspected the site Saturday, show …

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