Russia

The Global Times describes Trump’s attack on Zelensky as interference in internal affairs and his proposal to end the war a hasty solution that risks increasing tensions, further complicating geopolitical dynamics. China does not want to be left on the sidelines of the issue. Some analysts see a "Nixon in reverse" effect to break Xi-Putin axis.

In the reopened dialogue in Saudi Arabia, a crucial role is being played by the head of the RFPI, the Russian Investment Fund, a ‘man in the shadows’ born in Ukraine, very loyal to the Russian president and a Stanford graduate. He has never broken off relations with Trump's entourage.

Japan is one of the destinations for the relokanty who left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, also due to the presence of a group of compatriots particularly committed to the opposition to Putin and to the demonstrations in favour of peace.

The 80th anniversary of the Conference between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill and the new goals of today's emperors to divide the world. Meanwhile, ongoing commemorations focus not on ending the war, but on what regime to install in Kyiv in the coming years.

New evidence turns the spotlight back on the violence of the former militiamen of Prigožin's Company who, in Bangui on behalf of Moscow, support President Touadéra in exchange for substantial interests in gold and diamond mining and timber harvesting.

The Russian authorities have not yet recognised their responsibilities in the tragedy that cost the lives of 38 people in Kazakhstan on 25th December and have not responded to the requests for compensation. President Aliev's plane itself is believed to have been targeted and local analysts point the finger at geopolitical manoeuvres. Meanwhile Azerbaijan closes the Dom Rossii suspected of espionage.

The president's meeting with young Russian scientists, whom he compared to the ‘generation of our patriots who worked on the atomic bomb’. He also evoked the challenge of reaching the red planet and the need to ‘protect oneself not only from radiation’ in space.

Regardless of its leaders and its political and cultural expressions, Ukraine must be rebuilt not only in terms of its cities and houses, as imagined by the Great Real Estate Developer who has ascended to the throne of the American empire. It must be rebuilt as a border crossing between resentment and hope, between Russia and the rest of the world.

Patriarch Kirill is speeding up procedures to achieve the canonisation of the most victorious commander in Russian history by 9 May, the 80th anniversary of Victory. A man who anticipated contemporary directives of ‘hybrid warfare’ in all dimensions, in the field and in politics, in ideology and in religion.

The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia, was celebrated. Since the 18th century, Orthodox missionaries had started schools here for the religious and cultural education of Siberian peoples. But it is also the seat of the Catholic diocese of St Joseph, which serves the heir communities of Poles deported here after the anti-imperial uprisings of the 19th century.

The educational conferences which have marked the end of the Christmas season in Moscow since the end of the Soviet Union are the primary ideological review of the new Orthodox Russia. Kirill underscores the mnogočadie, the ‘multi-family’ as an indispensable way of life: ‘We are the largest country in terms of geographical area, but we are too few for all this space’.

The first gathering of ‘ideological’ immigrants who came to the country thanks to the ‘spiritual and moral’ visas introduced by Putin for people from ‘unfriendly’ countries who support the ideals of the Russian world took place in Šuj. To obtain a three-year residence permit it is sufficient to show medical insurance and sign an ideological declaration.