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Feb 18 2026 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview: Al Arabiya television channel, Moscow, February 18, 2026
https://mid.ru/tv/?id=2081544&lang=en
Key Points:
Key statements from Lavrov in the Al Arabiya interview:
🔘Russia is not seeking and does not want war;
🔘The Kiev regime is currently the main obstacle to resolving the conflict;
🔘All the slogans of the Munich Conference boiled down to the idea that Russia is an enemy and must be defeated;
🔘Lavrov expressed hope that Europe’s current political… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
Sirius Report: U.S. Has Sinister Motives When It Comes To Russia
It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. has sinister motives when it comes to Russia, after Anchorage had made such positive progress which has evaporated away in recent months.
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Feb 17 2026 
Middlegame and a Strategy for the Day after Tomorrow
Sergei A. Karaganov
National Research University–Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
Distinguished Professor, Academic Supervisor;
Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Honorary Chairman—
Fear is the only thing the EU understands
Sergey Karaganov argues the conflict with the West has entered its middle game – and that only firm deterrence, including the credible threat of… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2026 
Patrushev on the protection of navigation and maritime borders of the Russian Federation
Nikolai Patrushev said that pirate attacks on the Russian maritime trade indicate that Western opponents decided to paralyze the foreign trade of our country / Pavel Bednyakov / RIA Novosti
(The translation is not wonderful but absolutely understandable).
“If we do not give them a tough rebuff, then soon the British, the French and even the Balts… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2026 
Trilateral talks on Ukraine end in Geneva after 6 hours of discussions
The talks were held behind closed doors at Hotel InterContinental
GENEVA, February 17. /TASS/. The trilateral closed-door talks on the Ukrainian settlement involving Russia, the United States, and Ukraine have ended in Geneva after six hours of discussions, a source told TASS.
The talks began at 1:56 p.m. local time (12:56 a.m. GMT). They were held behind… Continue reading
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Feb 14 2026 
Avoiding oblivion… and rehabilitating humanity
Tariq Marzbaan and Nora Hoppe conduct a fourth interview with Professor Sergey Karaganov on nuclear escalation, US decline, Europe’s crisis, and the search for a post-capitalist model to “rehabilitate humanity.”
Source: Al Mayadeen EnglishFollowing our first three interviews here, here and here with Professor Sergey A. Karaganov*, we wish to turn… Continue reading
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Feb 14 2026 
Stanislav Krapivnik: Fake Talks & War Profits: No Peace Ahead?
With Nima
This interview argues that current U.S.–Russia talks over Ukraine are not serious negotiations but improvised, commerce-driven dealings lacking diplomatic depth. It claims there is no middle ground between Russia and Ukraine, accuses Ukrainian elites of profiting from prolonging the war, and criticizes U.S. officials for inconsistency and hidden motives. The discussion also portrays Europe… Continue reading
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Feb 12 2026 
Three Russian ‘Key Point’ Press Briefings: Defense, Maria Zakharova and Sergey Ryabkov
My comments, indented, follow the Key Points.
Key takeaways from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s statements at the Zhirinovsky Readings International Scientific and Expert Forum:
On new US policy
▪US President Donald Trump “became the first and almost the only” Western leader to recognize NATO expansion as the root cause of the conflict in Ukraine
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Feb 12 2026 
The reality of AI – Nato’s Nightmare: Russia is Reshaping the AI Kill Chain
New Rules Geopolitics
Russia is rewriting modern warfare.
A new paper from CSIS explains how Moscow abandoned large-scale Command and Control (military systems, procedures, and technology commanders use to issue orders, receive information from the battlefield, and coordinate forces) modernization and instead weaponized agility.
Russia’s new center of gravity is tactical software that shortens the kill… Continue reading
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Feb 10 2026 
Elena Panina: West aims to change constitutional order in Belarus
SVR (civilian foreign intelligence agency of Russia): The West aims to change the constitutional order in Belarus
Translated from channel
NGOs of Western countries, including “democratization” structures, agencies and funds of the USA, Britain, Germany, Poland and other European states, are accumulating forces and resources to once again attempt to destabilize the situation and achieve a change… Continue reading
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Feb 10 2026
FM Sergey Lavrov at 15th Middle East Conference
Mr Lavrov is not positive (as we all can see) on the current developments in the Middle East and West Asia region. He names the names of those who are responsible for the current situation.
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2078660/
Thank you, Mr Baklanov.
Thank you for inviting me to the latest forum, this time the 15th anniversary forum of the Middle… Continue reading
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Feb 09 2026
FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TV BRICS international media network, Moscow, February 9, 2026
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2078196/
Key talking points
• The global arena is undergoing a transformation that began some time ago with the objective transition toward a multipolar world order. This is neither the bipolarity of the Soviet-American era with the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, nor the unipolarity that emerged after the Soviet Union’s collapse. <…> Multiple… Continue reading
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Feb 05 2026
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with RT television channel, Moscow, February 5, 2026
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2077070/
Key talking points: #Europe #EU #Germany
Question: Hello again, everybody. I’m Rick Sanchez, and we are coming to you today from a different location, the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation. Oh, if these walls could talk! This is such a special experience. I think for me, as an American journalist, to be able to… Continue reading
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Feb 05 2026 
Short commentary by Vladimir Putin on the Holocaust
This is an interesting assessment of a short commentary by Vladimir Putin on the Holocaust made to leading jews in the Russian Federation.
The narrator says: “Watch how Putin celebrates Holocaust Remembrance Day with Jewish leaders at the Kremlin. Putin basically tells them that they’re not special. Putin told the Chosen that they can’t enjoy special… Continue reading
