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A few hours north in Kharkiv, there is little appetite for suddenly ceding this territory in any deal. "We could not accept any possibility of giving up our territories," said writer and activist Ivanna Skyba. "It’s not about territories. It’s about our people, our values, our way of life," she…

Published on :  18 Aug 2025, 11:16 am Key topics: Putin–Trump summit evokes fears of revived great-power spheres of influence Orwell’s 1984 echoes in today’s US, Russia, China power blocs reshaping order Rise of “national capitalism” as states push self-sufficiency and tighter control Sign up for your early morning brew…

Researchers at software supply chain security outfit Safety think they’ve found malware that targets Russian cryptocurrency developers, and perhaps therefore Russia’s state-linked ransomware crews Safety’s head of research Paul McCarty last week revealed his discovery of npm packages that he wrote “targeted the Solana cryptocurrency ecosystem and pretend to ‘scan’…

Smoke from the Hindustan Petroleum oil refinery in Mumbai blends with the clouds. Photo by Abeer Khan /Bloomberg Article content (Bloomberg) — The dramatic increase in India’s purchases of Russian oil since the invasion of Ukraine is “opportunistic and deeply corrosive” of a global effort to isolate the Kremlin and…

During multiple press interviews on Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio touted alleged progress at President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, while offering few specifics to back up his claims. In appearances on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and ABC’s “This Week,” Rubio wouldn’t name a single penalty…

A crypto influencer was sentenced to a year in prison for what US prosecutors called a large-scale cryptojacking operation that defrauded two major cloud computing providers. Cryptojacking is when resources such as computing power or electricity are used without permission to mine crypto. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said on…

President Trump late Sunday in a pair of posts on Truth Social ripped the media and a prominent Democrat for criticisms of his summit on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump met with Putin in Alaska, and will meet Monday with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as he seeks to…

Dominik Hašek has condemned the Alaska summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (Getty Images) Former NHL goaltender Dominik Hašek, one of the most outspoken critics of Russia’s war in Ukraine, has ignited debate once again — this time over the high-profile Alaska summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and…

This is the moment a flustered Putin winced as he was bombarded with questions from the free press who asked whether he would 'stop killing civilians' in Ukraine. Sat alongside Donald Trump ahead of their meeting in Alaska on Friday, Vladimir Putin looked visibly uncomfortable as he was queried about…

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