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The Russia-US-Ukraine negotiations in Switzerland lasted for two hours on Wednesday, Vladimir Medinsky has said · Members of the Russian delegation taking part in talks with the US and Ukrainian representatives in Geneva. © Sputnik / Ekaterina Chesnokova · [RT] Trilateral talks between Russian, US, and Ukrainian delegations in Geneva have been “difficult but businesslike,” Moscow’s top negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said after…

The Western European political class is virtually uniform in its hatred of Russia, the foreign minister has said · NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Brussels, Belgium, December 14, 2023. ©  Dursun Aydemir / Anadolu via Getty Images · [RT] Much of the Western European antagonism towards Russia is driven by revanchist aspirations rooted in the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II,…

The London-centric security order revealed in Munich · By Oleg Yanovsky, lecturer in the Department of Political Theory at MGIMO, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy · British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Defence Secretary John Healey during the 62nd Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2026 in Munich, Germany. © Getty Images / Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty…

Designating the Lower Saxony AfD chapter as a surveillance priority is politically motivated, the party has said · FILE PHOTO: Delegates and visitors arrive at an AfD Lower Saxony party conference. ©  Julian Stratenschulte / picture alliance via Getty Images · [RT] Authorities in the German state of Lower Saxony have designated the local chapter of the right-wing AfD party a surveillance priority, citing what they called…

Miles Franklin Media · Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with James Rickards, New York Times bestselling author and editor of the Strategic Intelligence newsletter, for a conversation on gold, artificial intelligence, and the growing risk of a global monetary crisis. · Rickards explains why a move to $10,000 gold by the end of 2026 would not surprise him, breaking down the math behind gold’s…

How Brussels’ Digital Services Act has been used to pressure platforms and electoral control in member states · Romania’s 2024 presidential election was already one of the most controversial political episodes in the European Union in recent years. A candidate who won the first round was prevented from contesting the second. The vote was annulled. Claims of Russian interference were advanced without public evidence. · At the time,…

The US journalist had arrived in the country to interview the American ambassador, Mike Huckabee · Journalist Tucker Carlson attends an event in the White House on January 9, 2026 in Washington, DC. ©  Al Drago / Getty Images · [RT] US journalist and podcaster Tucker Carlson has said he was briefly detained at Ben Gurion International Airport on Wednesday after taping an interview with the US ambassador to Israel. ·…

Rubio named it: "managed decline." Barbara Boyd traces the 1975 Trilateral blueprint that built Europe's censorship machine to enforce it — and explains why Trump is dismantling all of it. · At the Munich Security Forum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly rejected America’s role in managing the West’s “decline,” calling deindustrialization a deliberate policy and warning that mass migration is destabilizing the West. He then…

I read about the Waikato River Authority (WRA) releasing 76,000 elvers (young Tuna) into the Waikato River at Lake Karapiro during the recent Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 2026. · On reading this press release from the WRA I immediately thought to myself; what is to be achieved by this action? The reason for this thought is set out in the title of this article; the good the bad & the ugly! · The Good: · It’s great to see the WRA taking action to…

Yesterday, as the Infrastructure Commission released New Zealand’s first-ever National Infrastructure Plan, the North Island was cleaning up from yet another extreme weather event. Roads blocked by slips and flooding. Power cut to homes. Stormwater and sewage systems overwhelmed. Commission chief executive Geoff Cooper acknowledged the grim backdrop, noting that the challenges of maintaining infrastructure in the face of natural hazards “sit at…