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View from London: For Russia, the war in Ukraine is an existential one

11:38 20.11.2025

View from London: For Russia, the war in Ukraine is an existential one

Predictions that the Russian economy is on the verge of collapse are nothing new. Those forecasts have circulated widely since 2022, when the United States and Europe first imposed unprecedented sanctions on Moscow as punishment for invading Ukraine. But this wishful thinking has received a boost in recent weeks, in …

FT: The elite Russian unit hunting Ukraine’s drone warriors

11:36 20.11.2025

FT: The elite Russian unit hunting Ukraine’s drone warriors

Ukraine’s drone pilots have become the hunted, ‘Financial Times’ notes. Their tormentor is a dynamic new Russian unit known as Rubikon. Using sophisticated tools and its own fleet of hunter drones, the team has been locating, tracking and killing Ukrainian operators before they can launch. Rubikon’s emergence has driven a …

POLITICO: The West’s new arms race – Selling peace to buy war

11:33 20.11.2025

POLITICO: The West’s new arms race – Selling peace to buy war

Military spending is rising faster than at any time since the Cold War, but the retreat from diplomacy and foreign aid will come with a price, POLITICO notes. One school of academic theory holds that era-defining wars recur roughly every 85 years, as generations lose sight of their forebears’ hard-won …

WP: Trump officials prepare to deport Ukrainians

11:32 20.11.2025

WP: Trump officials prepare to deport Ukrainians

The Trump administration is preparing to deport some Ukrainians with final orders of removal back to their war-ravaged homeland as the government seeks to ramp up deportations, ‘The Washington Post’ writes. The Justice Department said in a court filing Wednesday that the government has plans to deport Roman Surovtsev, 41, …

Reactor vessel installation ceremony at power unit of El Dabaa NPP

23:03 19.11.2025

Reactor vessel installation ceremony at power unit of El Dabaa NPP

Vladimir Putin, together with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, participated via videoconference in a ceremony marking the installation of the reactor vessel for the first unit of Egypt’s El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, Kremlin informs. Construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant is being carried out by the State Atomic …

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 …

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