Maxime Marquette
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EDITORIAL: Taiwan is not a negotiating chip, so unfreeze the $14 billion before Xi gets his verb
There is still a blank page. On Thursday evening, after Donald Trump met Xi Jinping at the White House, Washington had released no official…
QUICK TAKE: RIA Novosti threatens Lithuania with missiles, pulls the text, denies nothing
RIA Novosti never wrote that it was false. On September 25, at noon Moscow time, the page of a column on the Russian state…
QUICK TAKE: Peskov defends press freedom for RT France; the Kremlin holds 36 journalists
There is a list in Brussels. On September 24, 2026, the Council of the European Union adds a name to it, the 81st: Xenia…
ANALYSIS: Moscow claims 592 drones intercepted, Rostov counts a refinery shut down
Five hundred ninety-two. On the morning of September 25, Russia’s Defence Ministry publishes its overnight count. Between 8 p.m. on the 24th and 8…
ANALYSIS: The Kremlin’s party holds 349 seats, and its first job is taxes
One party, one number, and a chamber almost full. Despite the millions of votes independent analysts consider suspect, the Central Election Commission signed off…
OPINION: The Kremlin says yes to a meeting and no to a pause, and Kyiv pays the difference
A meeting with no pause isn’t a negotiation. It’s a calendar you fill in while the other side keeps striking.
EXPLAINER: Kyiv targets the Iskander before its first flight, in Voronezh rubber
It all comes down to one tiny component. Not a missile. Not a launcher. A diode.
PROFILE: Alexander Kynev counted votes, the charge speaks only of drugs
Since September 23, Alexander Kynev’s channel has said nothing. His last post opens like all the others, with a notice in capital letters: this…
ESSAY: London trains its swarms on 6 million Ukrainian detections, no contract published
Ukraine’s most valuable asset is made of what it had to watch coming. And to protect it, Ukraine is lending it out.