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| | MINSK, Belarus. May 29th, 2018. PICTURED: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. PC: MFA Russia. CC 2.0.MINSK, Belarus. November 30th, 2021. Longtime president of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has stated that in the event NATO moves nuclear weapons into a country east of Germany, he will invite
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| | Joshua Yaffa on how Vladimir Putin outsourced his military ambitions to the Wagner Group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin; and their recent coup against him.
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| | President Vladimir Putin is working to silence his most vocal pro-war nationalist critics on the eve of this fall's regional elections and the 2024 presidential election in which he is expected to seek six more years in power. Following the Wagner mutiny, which posed the biggest threat yet to Putin's 23-year rule, the Kremlin now seeks to deploy the same tactics it used to crush Russia's liberal opposition against prominent far-right "patriots" to mitigate its political risks, three Russian officials tol...
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| The shape of a potential peace agreement in Ukraine remains uncertain, but a deal appears closer than ever. Last week, when U.S. and Ukrainian delegations met in Saudi Arabia, the Ukrainian side reportedly supported a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire - though Russia later dismissed the offer. On Sunday, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff suggested an agreement could be reached within "weeks" and hinted at a range of possible concessions by Ukraine that he claimed were under discussion. Meanwhile, according to the Telegram channel Faridaily, the Kremlin is already preparing for one of the biggest challenges Russian society will face when the war ends: the return of hundreds of thousands of traumatized soldiers. Meduza shares the channel's findings in Englis...