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Diplomacy is possible if talks are “free of threats and unreasonable expectations,” President Masoud Pezeshkian has said · Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. © Getty Images / Anadolu / Contributor · [RT] Iran has signaled a willingness to pursue diplomacy with the United States, while stressing that any dialogue must be free of pressure and respect Tehran’s stated position on its nuclear program. · Tensions have run …

Diplomatic contact with Moscow was cut after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 · French President Emmanuel Macron ©  Nicolas Economou / NurPhoto via Getty Images · [RT] Ukraine’s European backers are preparing for possible talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. · The EU and UK cut off diplomatic communication with Moscow following the escalation of the…

The Russian tech mogul has accused Paris of a broader crackdown on digital privacy and media freedom · Pavel Durov ©  AOP.Press / Corbis via Getty Images · [RT] Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov has condemned France, saying it is “not a free country” after a raid on Elon Musk's X offices in Paris. · The search was part of a probe into the social media platform’s Grok AI and its alleged generation of sexualized deepfake images…

The sex offender who represented the banking family claimed “many opportunities” would arise after the deadly Western-backed putsch · RT composite. ©  Rick Friedman Photography / Corbis via Getty Images; Sputnik / Andrey Stenin · Pedophile sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein treated the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev as a lucrative business opportunity, newly released documents suggest. · The latest batch of Epstein-related…

The RAND Corporation has urged big capital to seize the “business opportunity of the decade” while snubbing Russia · Ukraine offers far better investment opportunities than Russia for Western businesses, according to the influential US think tank RAND Corporation, known for its close defense ties. But the pitch to ‘big capital’ comes with caveats. · Opportunity of a decade · In a Barron’s commentary two weeks ago, RAND Corp. senior…

Here’s how mysticism and witchcraft fueled Ukraine’s war mindset · By Marina Akhmedova, member of the presidential human rights council of Russia · ©  This image was generated using AI technology. · [RT] Yulia Mendel, former press secretary to Vladimir Zelensky, has made claims that would once have sounded like tabloid fantasy. Yet in today’s Ukraine, they land differently. Mendel says that Andrey Yermak, long the …

The future belongs to civilization states and an alliance between technology and tradition, says Dr. Steve Turley · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/constantin-von-hoffmeister/By Constantin von Hoffmeister, a political and cultural commentator from Germany, author of the books‘MULTIPOLARITY!’ and ‘Esoteric Trumpism’, and director of Multipolar Press · multipolarpress.com - Pic Dr. Steve Turley · Dr. Steve Turley, an American scholar and…

The negotiations had been planned for Sunday but were moved due to scheduling issues, Dmitry Peskov has said · The Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow. ©  Mikhail Voskresenskiy · [RT] The second round of trilateral talks between Russian, Ukrainian, and US delegations will take place in Abu Dhabi later this week, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. He cited scheduling issues as the reason for the postponement of…

The bloc’s heavy-handed president has no strategic vision and fails to stand up to the US, Nicolas Schmit has said · European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Nicolas Schmit, Brussels, Belgium, February 5, 2020. ©  Thierry Monasse / picture alliance via Getty Images · [RT] European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen runs a system that silences those working under her, a former commissioner who served…

New START, the only remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the US, is set to expire this week · Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gives interview to TASS, REugers and WarGonzo on January 29, 2026. ©  Oleg Molchanov;  RIA Novosti · [RT} Russia’s offer to extend the last major nuclear arms agreement with the US, the New START treaty, for one more year remains…