Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: “Unscheduled Repairs at Oil Refineries” Causing "Restrictions on Fuel Sales" in Some Russian Regions
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: Russians Who "Harm Russia" from Abroad May Have Their Property Seized
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Moscow Wants to ‘Destabilise’ Europe, EU Chief Warns, as Countries Summon Russian Ambassadors over Kyiv Threats
THE GUARDIAN: Ursula von der Leyen visiting Lithuania amid drone incursions as diplomats are called over Russian requests for envoys to leave the Ukrainian capital
'When Baltic states are being tested, Europe as a whole is being tested,' von der Leyen says The European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, begins by acknowledging that the Baltic states “have been experiencing what many believed belonged to another era.”
She says the EU “must be clear about what it means,” and that “these are not isolated incidents this is a deliberate strategy from Russia trying to destabilise our democratic societies.”
'When Baltic states are being tested, Europe as a whole is being tested,' von der Leyen says The European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, begins by acknowledging that the Baltic states “have been experiencing what many believed belonged to another era.”
“Air raid alerts, families sheltering, schools closing, transport interrupted. This is the reality on Europe’s eastern border in 2026.She warns “this is a deliberate strategy from Russia trying to destabilise our democratic societies.”
Today it is here. Tomorrow it will be elsewhere along the eastern border.”
She says the EU “must be clear about what it means,” and that “these are not isolated incidents this is a deliberate strategy from Russia trying to destabilise our democratic societies.”
“Europe stands in full solidarity and unity with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, because when Baltic states are being tested, Europe as a whole is being tested.”She says the EU is investing more in readiness and necessary defence projects. Europe live » | Jakub Krupa | Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: Russia: Reports of a "Split" on Whether or Not to End Russia's War on Ukraine
Monday, May 25, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: Today’s Russian Papers: The Student Dorm Attack & One Article I Didn’t Expect
Russia Hits Kyiv with a Missile Nobody Can Stop – and Ukraine Knew It Was Coming | DW News
Friday, May 22, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: "Russia and Belarus Flex Their Nuclear Muscles," Reports Russian Paper
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: No Deal on Gas Pipeline at Putin-Xi Meeting
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Xi Says World Is At Risk of ‘Law of the Jungle’ as He Hails China-Russia Links
THE GUARDIAN: Chinese president hosts Putin in Beijing and welcomes relationship as stabilising global force
Xi Jinping said the world was at risk of regressing into the “law of the jungle” and hailed the China-Russia relationship as a stabilising global force as he hosted Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday, just days after hosting Donald Trump.
The Chinese leader welcomed the Russian president with pomp and pageantry as the pair began talks in the Great Hall of the People.
Chinese soldiers stood in position as a military band played the Russian and Chinese national anthems for the leaders in central Beijing. Children waved Russian and Chinese flags and cheered: “Welcome, welcome!” in Chinese before the pair entered the Great Hall.
The scene was reminiscent of Trump’s high-profile meeting with Xi in Beijing last week, when the leaders of the world’s two largest economies discussed issues from trade and investment, to the Iran conflict and Taiwan. » | Alastair McCready in Taipei | Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Xi Jinping said the world was at risk of regressing into the “law of the jungle” and hailed the China-Russia relationship as a stabilising global force as he hosted Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday, just days after hosting Donald Trump.
The Chinese leader welcomed the Russian president with pomp and pageantry as the pair began talks in the Great Hall of the People.
Chinese soldiers stood in position as a military band played the Russian and Chinese national anthems for the leaders in central Beijing. Children waved Russian and Chinese flags and cheered: “Welcome, welcome!” in Chinese before the pair entered the Great Hall.
The scene was reminiscent of Trump’s high-profile meeting with Xi in Beijing last week, when the leaders of the world’s two largest economies discussed issues from trade and investment, to the Iran conflict and Taiwan. » | Alastair McCready in Taipei | Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: Putin in China - What the Russian Papers Are Saying
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: Drone Attacks Adding to "Increased Anxiety" amongst Russians
Monday, May 18, 2026
He Shut Liquor Stores and Banned Abortion, All for the Glory of Russia
THE NEW YORK TIMES: A firebrand governor aims to transform his region into a laboratory for the Kremlin’s reactionary ideals.
He restricted alcohol sales to two hours on workdays and effectively banned abortions in the region’s private clinics. He erected statues of Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, and his government tried to name a youth group after the medieval czar’s dreaded secret police. He emblazoned nearly every bus and even the local airline’s four Soviet-era jets with nationalistic slogans and repainted them ruby red.
Georgy Y. Filimonov, the governor of the northern region of Vologda, is an especially keen reader of Russia’s political winds. He has vigorously embraced the sort of “traditional Russian values” espoused by the Kremlin, asserting Vologda as an undistilled bastion of “Russianness.”
His campaign to make his region “the powerhouse of the Russian world,” which began in late 2023, melds imperial and Soviet nostalgia with some of modern Russia’s strictest social laws.
As he pushes his region’s citizens to carry out what he sees as their patriotic duties, high on his list is having more babies. » | Ivan Nechepurenko | Visuals by Mary Gelman | Ivan Nechepurenko spent several days in the Russian city of Vologda and in the surrounding region. | Monday, May 18, 2026
He restricted alcohol sales to two hours on workdays and effectively banned abortions in the region’s private clinics. He erected statues of Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, and his government tried to name a youth group after the medieval czar’s dreaded secret police. He emblazoned nearly every bus and even the local airline’s four Soviet-era jets with nationalistic slogans and repainted them ruby red.
Georgy Y. Filimonov, the governor of the northern region of Vologda, is an especially keen reader of Russia’s political winds. He has vigorously embraced the sort of “traditional Russian values” espoused by the Kremlin, asserting Vologda as an undistilled bastion of “Russianness.”
His campaign to make his region “the powerhouse of the Russian world,” which began in late 2023, melds imperial and Soviet nostalgia with some of modern Russia’s strictest social laws.
As he pushes his region’s citizens to carry out what he sees as their patriotic duties, high on his list is having more babies. » | Ivan Nechepurenko | Visuals by Mary Gelman | Ivan Nechepurenko spent several days in the Russian city of Vologda and in the surrounding region. | Monday, May 18, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: Russian Papers React to Massive Ukrainian Drone Attack
Sunday, May 17, 2026
At Least Four People Killed in Russia as Ukraine Launches Retaliatory Strikes
THE GUARDIAN: Wave of almost 600 drones launched across 14 regions, after Moscow’s deadly three-day attack on Ukraine last week
One of Ukraine’s largest ever drone strikes against Russia’s regions, including Moscow, has killed at least four people and wounded a dozen more, the Russian authorities have said.
The wave of almost 600 Ukrainian drones struck overnight across 14 Russian regions, as well as the Crimean peninsula and the Black and Azov seas, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday, with the area around the capital among the worst-hit.
Three people were killed in the Moscow region and one in the Belgorod region, the authorities said, as Russian air defences shot down 556 drones overnight and neutralised another 30 after dawn.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, confirmed the strikes, saying drones had flown more than 500km (310 miles) from Ukrainian territory and that Ukraine was “overcoming” Russian air defence systems concentrated in and around Moscow. » | Jon Henley and agencies | Sunday, May 17, 2026
One of Ukraine’s largest ever drone strikes against Russia’s regions, including Moscow, has killed at least four people and wounded a dozen more, the Russian authorities have said.
The wave of almost 600 Ukrainian drones struck overnight across 14 Russian regions, as well as the Crimean peninsula and the Black and Azov seas, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday, with the area around the capital among the worst-hit.
Three people were killed in the Moscow region and one in the Belgorod region, the authorities said, as Russian air defences shot down 556 drones overnight and neutralised another 30 after dawn.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, confirmed the strikes, saying drones had flown more than 500km (310 miles) from Ukrainian territory and that Ukraine was “overcoming” Russian air defence systems concentrated in and around Moscow. » | Jon Henley and agencies | Sunday, May 17, 2026
Friday, May 15, 2026
Russia: New Restrictions on Reporting Drone Attacks, New Rules for Expelling Foreigners
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Steve Rosenberg: "Powerful Missiles" & "Downgraded Growth Forecasts" in Today's Russian Papers
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Putin Hints Ukraine War "Is Coming to an End." Do Today's Russian Papers Agree?
Monday, May 11, 2026
Ukrainian Territory Is Not ‘On the Table’ as Putin’s Offensive Falters | Robert Fox
May 11, 2026 | “Zelenskyy is pretty sure they’re not going to do a trade over ground.”
Russia’s failure to make any land territory in the past year and its rapid loss of manpower means Putin is in no position to negotiate for territory, says defence editor for The Standard, Robert Fox.
Russia’s failure to make any land territory in the past year and its rapid loss of manpower means Putin is in no position to negotiate for territory, says defence editor for The Standard, Robert Fox.
Red Square: Victory Day
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Vladimir Putin Suggests Ukraine War Is ‘Coming to an End’
THE GUARDIAN: Russian president damns western support that has allowed Ukraine to hold out and asks for talks with Gerhard Schröder in remarks after diminished Victory Day parade
Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down – remarks that came a few hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years.
“I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters of the Russia-Ukraine war, Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second world war. He said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, and that his preferred negotiating partner would be Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
Putin, who has ruled Russia as president or prime minister since the last day of 1999, faces a wave of anxiety in Moscow about the war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, left swathes of Ukraine in ruins, and drained Russia’s economy. Russia’s relations with Europe are worse than at any time since the depths of the cold war.
Russian forces have so far been unable to take the whole of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine where Kyiv’s forces have been pushed back to a line of fortress cities. Russian advances have slowed this year, though Moscow controls just under one-fifth of Ukrainian territory. » | Guardian staff and agencies | Sunday, May 10, 2026
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Guerre en Ukraine : Vladimir Poutine assure que le conflit « touche à sa fin » : Le président russe a assuré devant une assemblée de journalistes que la situation « restait grave ». »
Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down – remarks that came a few hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years.
“I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters of the Russia-Ukraine war, Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second world war. He said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, and that his preferred negotiating partner would be Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
Putin, who has ruled Russia as president or prime minister since the last day of 1999, faces a wave of anxiety in Moscow about the war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, left swathes of Ukraine in ruins, and drained Russia’s economy. Russia’s relations with Europe are worse than at any time since the depths of the cold war.
Russian forces have so far been unable to take the whole of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine where Kyiv’s forces have been pushed back to a line of fortress cities. Russian advances have slowed this year, though Moscow controls just under one-fifth of Ukrainian territory. » | Guardian staff and agencies | Sunday, May 10, 2026
À LIRE AUSSI :
Guerre en Ukraine : Vladimir Poutine assure que le conflit « touche à sa fin » : Le président russe a assuré devant une assemblée de journalistes que la situation « restait grave ». »
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