The United States and Russia worked to weaken proposed international safeguards for lethal autonomous weapons during United Nations negotiations in Geneva this month, removing provisions that would have required greater reliability, ethical
by Our Foreign Affairs Editor In a wide-ranging conversation with our foreign affairs editor, Irina Alksnis, managing editor of the RIA.ru opinion column department and winner of the Golden Pen of Russia
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy departed the White House on Friday without securing an agreement for the supply of Tomahawk long-range missiles to Ukraine. The meeting with US President Donald Trump followed weeks of signals
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Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy has publicly called on Elon Musk to partner with Russia to build an undersea tunnel connecting Alaska and Russia, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump floated the
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Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov has accused British intelligence agencies of directly assisting Ukrainian attacks on internationally-owned energy infrastructure in Russia. Speaking on Thursday at a security chiefs’ meeting
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Russian liquefied natural gas shipments targeted by UK sanctions are continuing to enter China, as Moscow and Beijing appear prepared to circumvent London’s latest restrictions, Bloomberg reported. On Wednesday, the UK imposed
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An investigation by Le Monde reveals how secretive Russian-linked tankers are skirting sanctions, spreading risk, and stirring fears of sabotage beneath Europe’s northern waters. In the gray September light of Tallinn’s naval
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NATO allies are exploring a more forceful response to Russia’s increasingly provocative actions, including the possible deployment of armed drones along the alliance’s eastern border and easing rules for pilots to engage
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A man in a gleaming silver wedding suit presses his lips softly to his bride’s. In the next frame, he is clad in military fatigues, climbing a white, curved stairway into the
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The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came out of a meeting in New York in the weekend with the US S secretary of State Marco Rubio showing a thumbs-up sign as he
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Mikhail Kovalchuk, head of Russia’s Kurchatov nuclear research institute and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, told a forum of schoolteachers in Moscow that Western nations are plotting to exterminate the
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A recently declassified CIA report paints a striking picture of Soviet society in the early 1980s, revealing widespread public disillusionment, social tensions, and a craving for strong leadership—an era eerily reminiscent of
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The US is poised to “sell” Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. US special envoy to Ukraine, retired general Keith Kellogg, says only the final decision has to be made. The US has
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by A Special Defence Correspondent The debate over supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles is not simply about weapons; it is about strategic leverage, deterrence, and the limits of Western resolve. Ukrainian
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Russia remains the world’s dominant supplier of enriched uranium, providing roughly 40% of global supply, leaving Europe and other nations heavily dependent despite efforts to diversify, according to reporting from Oil Price.
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Ukraine has defied expectations and is effectively winning its war against Russia, according to historian, philosopher, and author Yuval Noah Harari writing in the Financial Times. Harari’s analysis highlights how Ukraine’s resilience,
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