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Many firms completely disregarded their losses when they left the country, the president has said Western companies that pulled out of Russia after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict amid the imposition of unprecedented sanctions are now looking to return, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, on Friday, Putin remarked that in 2022, “many European companies left at a loss to themselves due to ‘political reasons’.” “But we know… that many are eagerly waiting for all these political restrictions to be lifted, and at any moment they would lik…

West Jerusalem has demanded that the French leader drop his plan to recognize Palestine Israel has rejected a proposed visit by French President Emmanuel Macron in protest of his plan to formally recognize Palestinian statehood. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar conveyed West Jerusalem’s position on Thursday during a phone call with his French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot. Saar told Barrot that there is “no room” for Macron’s visit as long as France “persists in its initiative and efforts that harm Israel’s interests,” according to his office. The minister argued that recognizing Palestine would undermine Israel’s security, ins…

Fuel for Kiev’s long-range weapon will reportedly be made on Danish soil The fuel for Ukraine’s new Flamingo long-range cruise missile will be produced in Denmark, broadcaster DR reported on Thursday, citing a government memo. The facility will reportedly be located near the Skrydstrup air base in the south of the country and owned by FPRT, a subsidiary of the Ukrainian company Fire Point. According to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, the weapon, unveiled last month, can travel up to 3,000 kilometers – far enough to reach Siberia. Mass production is not expected for several months, he said. Denmark is expected to pass a law nex…

The Volunteer says life in his home country felt “very empty” A British national fighting with the Russian army against Ukraine has told RT that life in his home country felt “problematic.” The man, who did not reveal his identity, spoke from the trenches while wearing a balaclava and a cap with a Soviet flag. “I do have many reasons why I am here. Unfortunately, my country is very problematic for myself and many other citizens,” he said. “I suppose the simple premise is I am looking for a better life. Our life feels very empty.” “Why [do] we continue to provide to a country that just simply doesn’t provide to us?” the soldier ask…

A Lviv-based tech hub signs partnership with Taiwan’s top UAV maker A Taiwanese defense company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukrainian and Polish delegations on cooperation in UAV technology. The agreement, announced Wednesday at the International Defense Industry Exhibition (MSPO) in Kielce, Poland, comes amid heightened US-China tensions in the South China Sea. The document was signed by Taiwan Defense Industry Development Association President Tony Hsu, Polish-Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce founder Bartlomiej Dobosz, and Dmitry Dymyd, a representative of the Lviv Tech Cluster in Ukraine. According to Focus Taiwa…

The “statistically conspicuous” deaths are “hard to explain,” the party’s deputy head has said The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has reported what one of its senior members is calling a “statistically conspicuous” series of deaths among its candidates just weeks before local elections in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. A total of seven party members, including five main candidates and two “reserve” ones, have died over the past few weeks. The deaths were reported by the party between August 19 and September 3 – all before the local elections scheduled for September 14. The list included local AfD politicians ag…

The top diplomat has branded the meeting of Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean leaders in Tianjin a “direct challenge” EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas’s statements regarding the recent meeting between Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean leaders in Tianjin are “ideologically biased” and blatantly confrontational, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun has said. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday appeared alongside his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in China at a military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of imperial Jap…

Declassified documents show Tokyo planned covert killings of locals and foreigners in Manchuria in the event of war with the USSR Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has released declassified documents revealing a secret Japanese plan for mass executions in occupied Manchuria during World War II. Despite having a neutrality pact with Moscow, Japan – a wartime ally of Nazi Germany – drafted its own strategy to invade the USSR. In 1941, the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army approved the ‘Kantokuen,’ or ‘Special Maneuvers of the Kwantung Army’ plan, which envisioned defeating Soviet forces in the Far East and Siberia. Th…

Latvia could follow Denmark’s lead with a plan to start drafting females by 2028 Latvia is preparing to extend compulsory military service to women, aligning with other NATO members expanding their forces in response to what they describe as a Russian threat – a claim Moscow denies. Defense Minister Andris Spruds told Delfi TV on Wednesday that his party, the Progressives, will submit a proposal next year requiring both men and women to serve in the military from 2028. He noted that female-specific equipment is already being introduced in the National Armed Forces to prepare for the change. Currently, only men are conscripted under…

Kiev has repeatedly targeted Russia’s Druzhba pipeline, which is vital to the energy security of Hungary and Slovakia Kiev’s attacks on Hungarian and Slovakian energy supplies from Russia are a form of “sanctions,” Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has claimed. In August, Ukraine repeatedly struck the Druzhba pipeline, a key conduit transporting Russian and Kazakh crude to Slovakia and Hungary. Both EU nations have since accused Kiev of threatening their energy security. US President Donald Trump is “very unhappy” that nations in Western Europe are still buying oil from Russia, Zelensky said at a joint press conference alongside French P…

China has showcased advanced laser weapons and new missiles. Why do these frighten the US? On Wednesday, China hosted a parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of the Second World War. The event in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square demonstrated cutting-edge innovations developed by China’s military-industrial complex, with lessons learned from contemporary military conflicts. Vasily Kashin, director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, noted that China does not hold annual parades, making this week’s event p…

Alternative for Germany is leading its closest competitor by 12 points ahead of next year’s election in the eastern German state of Saxony Anhalt, a new poll suggests The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is more popular than ever in the eastern German state of Saxony Anhalt, results published on Thursday suggest. The new benchmark comes about a year before regional parliamentary elections scheduled for September 2026. Almost 40% of the voters in Saxony Anhalt would back the party if the elections were to be held this weekend, according to a survey conducted by the Infratest Dimap Institute on behalf of several news med…

The previously released recording on the night of the sex offender’s death jumped by one minute to midnight A US congressional committee has released the “missing minute” from security camera footage outside convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell on the night of his death. Its existence contradicts Attorney General Pam Bondi’s earlier assertion that one minute was deleted every day at midnight upon camera reset. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released more than 33,000 pages related to the Epstein case on Tuesday, amid mounting pressure on US President Donald Trump’s administration. The Justice Departm…

The vessel was sunk trying to cross the Dnepr River, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has reported Russian forces have destroyed a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group on the Dnepr river, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Thursday. According to the ministry, Russian drone operators keep watch over the river constantly to prevent enemy units from crossing it. In the latest example, scouts spotted a speedboat with Ukrainian soldiers in the island zone at the mouth of the river. Russian forces dispatched FPV drones to intercept the craft and carried out a series of strikes that hit the vessel as it tried to move deeper i…

Beijing’s model focuses on things the West’s “rules-based order” has forgotten – equality, law and common development The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin marked a decisive moment in the group’s evolution. What began more than two decades ago as a modest platform for regional security coordination is now presenting itself as the largest and one of the most ambitious regional organizations in the world. This year’s summit was the largest in the organization’s history. More than 20 heads of state took part, joined by leaders of ten international organizations, including United Nations Secretary-General …

Emergency teams have rescued 50 people so far from the scene of the tragedy At least 29 people have died in a boat accident in Niger State, Nigeria, after a wooden vessel capsized on Tuesday morning, state emergency officials have said. The boat, carrying about 90 passengers including women and children, overturned near the riverside community of Gausawa in Borgu Local Government Area. Officials linked the accident to overloading and a collision with a submerged tree stump. Emergency teams recovered 29 bodies and rescued 50 people, while others remain missing. An anonymous source in the state Ministry of Transport told Punch that …

China earlier this week announced the same privilege for Russians during a one-year trial period Moscow will grant visa-free entry to Chinese visitors, following Beijing’s decision earlier this week to extend the same privilege to Russian nationals, President Vladimir Putin has said. The reciprocal measure will strengthen cultural and economic ties between the two countries, he added. Putin made the remarks on Thursday in Vladivostok while meeting with senior Chinese official Li Hongzhong, a member of the Communist Party’s Politburo and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. He called China’s dec…

The EU Commission president claimed that Russia had interfered with her airplane’s navigation systems There is no evidence of Russia interfering with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s airplane during her recent flight to Bulgaria, the country’s authorities have said. DETAILS TO FOLLOW View the full article

The government is revising growth and inflation forecasts, Economic Development Minister Maksim Reshetnikov has said Russian growth is losing momentum more quickly than anticipated, Moscow’s Economic Development Minister Maksim Reshetnikov has said. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Russia has operated under sweeping Western sanctions aimed at isolating the country. Despite the restrictions, the economy has shown resilience, often outperforming forecasts. However, “the latest data show the economy is cooling faster than expected,” Reshetnikov warned at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Thursday, addin…

Hungary has received 5 billion cubic meters of the fuel under long-term contracts with Gazprom, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said Hungary has received a record 5 billion cubic meters of Russian gas through the TurkStream pipeline so far this year, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. TurkStream, which directly transports Russian gas to Türkiye and Southern Europe, remains the only route for supplies to the region after Kiev unilaterally halted gas transit through Ukraine at the end of last year. “Record volumes of natural gas are already arriving via TurkStream through Serbia – over 5 bcm since January,” Szijjarto sai…

The facility in Chukotka will provide power to the Baimsky mining complex, according to the Russian president Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced plans for another floating nuclear power plant (NPP) in the Far Eastern region of Chukotka to supply energy to the Baimsky mining and processing plant, one of the largest in the world. Putin made the announcement on Thursday in Vladivostok during a meeting on the development of fuel and energy complexes in the Russian Far East. The president noted that Russia is already implementing low-capacity nuclear power plants in Yakutsk and Chukotka and outlined future projects, includi…

Claims of ‘interference’ from Brussels, parotted by the Western press, are crashing back to Earth A flurry of reports from EU officials and Western media claimed this week that Russia jammed the plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen into Bulgaria. The tale of “hybrid warfare” in the skies made front-page news across an unquestioning mainstream press. But flight-tracking data shows something very different to what has been widely reported. What Brussels claimed happened On Sunday, von der Leyen traveled to Plovdiv as part of an Eastern Europe tour designed to harden Western backing for Kiev. T…

Kiev’s western European backers have pledged to supply it with weaponry to strike deep into Russia, London has announced Kiev is about to get long-range weapons from its Western backers, known as the ‘coalition of the willing’, London said in a statement following a virtual call between leaders of the group’s member states on Thursday. The British government did not name the specific nations planning the deliveries or the exact weapon types. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer “welcomed” the pledges during the video conference, the statement said. French President Emmanuel Macron earlier said that some European countries were ready …

The designer behind timeless elegance and modern style has passed away after nearly five decades at the helm of his empire Legendary Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91, his company announced on Thursday. According to La Repubblica, the clothier died at his home on September 4 after months of convalescence following a secret hospital stay. “With infinite sorrow, the Armani Group announces the passing of its creator, founder, and tireless driving force: Giorgio Armani,” the fashion house said in a statement. “Il Signor Armani, as he was always respectfully and admiringly called by employees and collabo…

The leaders of the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ have met at a summit in Paris The meeting of Ukraine’s backers, known as the ‘coalition of the willing’, took place on Thursday at the at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Those in attendance included European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Vladimir Zelensky, and the leaders of Belgium, Poland, Finland and France. Kiev has been pressing the West to provide security guarantees that could serve as a substitute for NATO’s collective defense since the US effectively blocked Ukraine’s bid to join the bloc. Several European nations, including France and the UK, have voiced the…