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Sep 03 2025 
Beijing Talks: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of China Xi Jinping held talks (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/77902) in Beijing (September 2, 2025)
The agenda included further strengthening and promoting the comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between Russia and China, practical cooperation between the countries, and global and regional issues, as well as cooperation in multilateral platforms.
✍️ A package of documents was signed during the official visit of the President of Russia to the People’s Republic of China.
In particular, memoranda of cooperation… Continue reading
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Mar 14 2025 
Putin peels off the Masks of the Ceasefire Kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
As we peel off the successive masks,… Continue reading
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Feb 26 2025 
Putin, Xi reaffirm partnership after Russia-US contacts
Chinese and Russian leaders reaffirm willingness to strengthen bilateral ‘strategic cooperation’
The Chinese and Russian leaders on Monday discussed strengthening “strategic cooperation” between their countries and Moscow’s recent contacts with Washington, the Kremlin said in a statement.
Discussion over phone between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin featured an in-depth exchange of views on the further development of… Continue reading
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Feb 25 2025 
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s answers questions from journalist Pavel Zarubin
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s answers (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76331) to questions from journalist Pavel Zarubin (Moscow, February 25, 2025)
❓Question: The United States is strongly urging Zelensky to sign an agreement with the US regarding rare-earth metals as payment for the aid Ukraine received from the former administration. In your opinion, what are the prospects of such an agreement?
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Jan 21 2025 
What else happened on inauguration day? Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping had a video chat:
Putin and Xi waving at one another:
We will resist external uncertainty:
Key statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a video conversation with Xi Jinping:
🔹It is necessary to summarize bilateral work over the past year and outline new plans for the development of relations;
🔹Moscow and Beijing build their relations based on friendship and mutual… Continue reading
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Dec 22 2024 
Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation
All that glisters is not gold —
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscrolled
Fare you well. Your suit is cold.By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
Russian… Continue reading
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Dec 20 2024 
Putin’s Q&A and the Forever Wars Riddle
Putin’s answers connect to the fog of the Forever Wars.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
He spoke for four and a half hours, virtually non-stop, reviewing the results of 2024, mastering all the facts.
His Direct Line received over 2 million questions, from Russia and around the world. And he had to crown the performance with a flourish,… Continue reading -
Dec 16 2024 
President Vladimir Putin: speech at the extended meeting with the collegium of the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD).
Update: Formal transcript added
Comments from Sputnik:
President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian Defense Ministry board, summing up the year’s developments in the military operation in Ukraine. He also discussed the global situation and outlined other measures to ensure the country’s security.
Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined key objectives for strengthening the country’s defense capabilities and advancing the… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
Putin Outlines The ‘Moment of Truth’
President Putin’s plenary session performance (address + Q&A) at the annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi felt like a high-speed train on cruise control.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Totally cool, calm, comfortable, in full command of a Himalaya of facts, no political leader anywhere – recent past and present – would even come close to delivering… Continue reading
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Oct 30 2024 
A Retrospective of the Heavyweight BRICS Kazan
Geopolitician Pepe Escobar reviews the seminal gathering of the sovereign harmonious multinodal world.
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Oct 21 2024 
BRICS Offers Hope in a Time of War
A date with Destiny .. “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a New Start or more Tyranny?” “A new start… if you can keep it.”
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
This is it. A date with destiny. All set for the most crucial geopolitical/geoeconomic gathering of the year and arguably the decade: the BRICS Summit under the… Continue reading -
Sep 13 2024 
Endless Wars – A Glimpse of the Future
Pepe Escobar: War OF Terror, Putin’s 1 min Lowdown, the spread of war into Europe, Soleimani and the guaranteed dismantling of the biblical psychopath genocidals…
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Sep 05 2024 
Plenary session of the 9th Eastern Economic Forum
The President of Russia took part in the 9th Eastern Economic Forum plenary session.
The forum’s slogan this year is ‘Far East 2030. Combining Strengths to Create New Potential’.
Vice President of the People’s Republic of China Han Zheng and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim also participated in the session. The discussion was moderated by Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Russia 24 news channel Alexandra Suvorova.
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Alexandra Suvorova: Good afternoon.
It is my great… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2024 
The Time for Moscow’s Concessions is in the Past
🎙 Excerpts from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s interview with “Rossiya 1” TV channel:
📍 August 4, 2024
📝 In accordance with the Gorbachev-Reagan agreement, the USSR and the US destroyed all their ground-based intermediate and shorter-range ballistic and cruise missiles, also committing to not produce, test, or deploy such missiles in the future. By 1991,… Continue reading
