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COMMENTARY: Trump Presses Moscow to Make Peace—But How Far Will This Pressure Go?
On June 16, 2026, in Évian-les-Bains, on the shores of Lake Geneva, Donald Trump uttered four words that surged through diplomatic chancelleries

REPORT: Europe Urges Trump to Host Zelensky and Putin — the G7 as Ultimate Leverage
On June 15, 2026, the leaders of the G7 met in the spa town of Évian-les-Bains, France, at the invitation of President

EDITORIAL: Sanctioning Beijing — The EU Finally Crosses the Rubicon Against Moscow's Ally
On June 15, 2026, in the hushed corridors of the EU Council in Brussels, something fundamental changed. For the first time since

INVESTIGATION: How China Became Putin's Economic Lifeline
Since February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin's Russia should have collapsed economically. More than 15,000 individual and sectoral sanctions have been imposed by

FACTCHECK: Do Sanctions Against Russia Really Work? Verification of Key Figures
On one side, Vladimir Putin tirelessly repeats that Western sanctions haven't changed a thing, that the Russian economy is weathering the storm,

ANALYSIS: 54% of exports, 58% of imports — Russia's commercial strangulation by the numbers
Since February 24, 2022, the European Union has built, sanctions package after sanctions package, a customs wall of a magnitude unprecedented in

DECRYPTED: ERA Technopolis and the Foundation for Advanced Research, the Kremlin's Sanctioned Brains
On June 15, 2026, the Council of the European Union adopted a new sanctions package against Russia, adding 34 individuals and 47

COMMENTARY: Brussels Bares Its Teeth — The EU Wants to Sanction Putin’s Chinese Banks
The information circulated discreetly, almost drowned out by the deluge of geopolitical news in mid-June 2026: according to a report by Bloomberg,

OP-ED: Putin’s Ghost Fleet — 27 Vessels in London’s Crosshairs, the Oil War
In the early hours of June 14, 2026, British Royal Marine commandos rappelled onto the deck of a tanker in the middle