Moscow, Putin and Ukraine
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Ukrainian negotiators who met Mr Zelensky in Dublin on December 2nd to debrief him were unsurprised that the Moscow talks fizzled out. “We have lots of convergence with the US ,” said Serhiy Kyslytsya,
Recent strikes are hitting at the core of Russia’s economy, but they are risky, and their ultimate impact is uncertain.
A five-hour meeting between Russia and US that ended after midnight on Wednesday failed to produce a compromise plan for settling the Ukraine crisis, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The stark differences in the US and Russian expressions cast fresh shadow of uncertainty over the resolution of the crisis,
Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff held a second round of talks with a top Ukrainian negotiator before heading off to Russia to try to seal a White House peace plan to end the nearly four-year-old
Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev will meet U.S. special representative Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Tuesday, sources close to U.S.-Russia talks told Reuters.
Keir Starmer agonising over decision after last-minute search by Foreign Office to find a heavyweight diplomat
Deputy Panin: the court will force to bring new private houses in the Moscow region to the standards
Starting in 2026, all country houses in the Moscow region must be built taking into account urban planning standards, State Duma deputy Gennady Panin told Izvestia. The rule will apply in the event of the adoption of a draft law on conducting an experiment in the construction and reconstruction of individual residential and garden houses in the Moscow Region.
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Woman smashes parked car with manhole cover in Olgino, Russia
On December 2, 2025, in Olgino, Balashikha, Russia, security video captured a woman smashing a parked car using a manhole cover. In the video, she lifts the heavy cover, carries it several meters, and throws it at a nearby vehicle.