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CNN: Trump and Putin both blame Europe as Ukraine peace effort languishes

11:56 09.09.2025

CNN: Trump and Putin both blame Europe as Ukraine peace effort languishes

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are on the same page again, CNN stresses. The US and Russian presidents are now both singling out Europe as stasis envelops efforts to end the Ukraine war three weeks after their high-profile but low-impact summit in Alaska. Trump called on Europe to do more …

The EU’s Trade Truce with the U.S. is in danger of unraveling

11:54 09.09.2025

The EU’s Trade Truce with the U.S. is in danger of unraveling

European equipment manufacturers want changes to the July trade deal after being hit by the White House’s expanding steel tariffs, ‘The Wall Street Journal’ writes. When President Trump unveiled his trade deal with the European Union in July, businesses across the bloc thought it would end months of uncertainty for …

The biggest U.S. Oil companies are eliminating thousands of jobs

11:53 09.09.2025

The biggest U.S. Oil companies are eliminating thousands of jobs

ConocoPhillips of Houston announced plans to reduce its global work force by up to 25 percent, ‘The New York Times’ reports. In the last couple of years, the largest U.S. oil companies gobbled up smaller ones. Now, contending with persistently mediocre oil prices, those giants are laying off many workers …

Sergey Lavrov stressed Moscow’s readiness for an honest dialogue with all partners

17:28 08.09.2025

Sergey Lavrov stressed Moscow’s readiness for an honest dialogue with all partners

Fringe figures in the West have not abandoned plans to break up Russia into separate regions, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told students and faculty of MGIMO. The foreign minister also stressed Moscow’s readiness for an honest dialogue with all partners, without building new "Berlin walls." Lavrov added that the process …

Sergey Lavrov: “China, Russia, and India clearly have everything they need to promote partnership and to derive mutual benefits from the areas where our interests overlap”

15:36 08.09.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “China, Russia, and India clearly have everything they need to promote partnership and to derive mutual benefits from the areas where our interests overlap”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from Moscow. Kremlin. Putin television programme, September 7, 2025. Question: Should we be paying attention to the West insisting that today’s meeting – the triple handshake between President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and President Xi Jinping – is a show, a …

FT: US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia

12:56 08.09.2025

FT: US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia

The US is to phase out security assistance programmes for European armies along Russia’s border, as it pushes the continent to pay for more of its own defence ‘Financial Times’ writes. Pentagon officials last week informed European diplomats that the US would no longer fund programmes that train and equip …

NYT: The “Axis of upheaval” wants ‘nothing less than a New World Order’. Really?

12:55 08.09.2025

NYT: The “Axis of upheaval” wants ‘nothing less than a New World Order’. Really?

When President Xi Jinping presided over an enormous exhibit of China’s military might in Beijing on Wednesday, there were more than fighter jets and missiles on display, ‘The New York Times’ notes. Mr. Xi, flanked by the leaders of Russia, Iran and North Korea, was signaling to the world that …

View from Washington: How U.S. support for Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis imperils diplomacy

12:54 08.09.2025

View from Washington: How U.S. support for Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis imperils diplomacy

Since the Cold War, Washington has empowered violent anti-Russian extremists, ‘The American Conservative’ stresses. As a negotiated settlement of the Russia–Ukraine war becomes more likely, Zelensky faces a major obstacle to peace that comes not from Moscow, but from ultranationalist and neo-Nazi forces inside his own country. In a recent …

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: Why is Putin OK with Ukraine joining the EU?

12:53 08.09.2025

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: Why is Putin OK with Ukraine joining the EU?

Lost amid the focus on summit pageantry, land swaps, and security guarantees last week was an issue even more central to a diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine war: whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to accept Ukraine’s membership in the EU as part of a settlement deal. Why might …

WSJ: Surge in immigration and weak economic growth spark voter backlash in France, the U.K. and Germany

11:02 07.09.2025

WSJ: Surge in immigration and weak economic growth spark voter backlash in France, the U.K. and Germany

For the first time, populist or far-right parties are leading the polls in Europe’s three biggest countries of the U.K., France, and Germany, the latest sign of growing voter discontent in much of the continent following years of high immigration and inflation, ‘The Wall Street Journal’ notes. Far-right and anti-immigration …

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