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Governments around the world reacted cautiously on Sunday to the invitation of the American president, Donald Trump, to join his initiative called the Council for Peace, reports Reuters, quoted by Agerpres. Only Hungary, whose prime minister, Viktor Orban, is a close ally of Trump, unequivocally accepted the invitation sent to about 60 countries. The Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, stated that he agrees in principle, but the details are still being worked out. The Presidential Administration in Bucharest confirmed on Sunday that President Nicuşor Dan had received the letter officially inviting Romania to become a member of the Council.…

The Storm-1516 network, affiliated with the Kremlin, has carried out campaigns to manipulate public opinion in the Republic of Moldova in the post-election period in the fall of 2025. The finding is contained in a report by the Center for Strategic Communication and Counteracting Disinformation, which mentions that Storm-1516 used accounts with large audiences to amplify manipulative messages. According to the report, among the exploited themes were European integration, security, militarization, arms trafficking, the legitimacy of elections, and external control over NGOs and the media. The network’s operations included the production and distribution of fabricated materials, including staged videos and…

The American messaging application WhatsApp will cease to function in Russia in 2026, announced the vice president of the State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Andrei Svintsov. “By the end of the year, Roskomnadzor will take a set of measures to completely block WhatsApp. This is related to the fact that WhatsApp belongs to the company Meta, declared extremist in Russia,” the deputy told TASS. He called these measures “absolutely justified”, considering that parliamentary elections are to take place in Russia in 2026. In turn, Roskomnadzor announced on January 15 that it sees no reason to lift the restrictions imposed…

Revenues in Russia’s budget from the oil and gas sector have dramatically decreased. In December, they amounted to just 448 billion rubles, and for the entire year of 2025 — to 8.48 trillion rubles, according to the Ministry of Finance. This is the lowest level since 2020, the year of the pandemic, when revenues were 405 billion in August and 5.2 trillion for the whole year. Then, the average price of Russian oil was 41.7 dollars per barrel. In the last months of 2025, similar levels were reached: 44.9 dollars in November and 39.2 dollars in December, according to the…

The European Commission will present, before July, a new European security strategy, intended to provide an “adequate response” to geopolitical changes, announced on Thursday the President of the institution, Ursula von der Leyen, according to EFE, quoted by Agerpres. “The goal is, in fact, to gather all the knowledge to recognize the changes, the geostrategic changes and existing needs, but also the geopolitical changes in our world and to provide an adequate response to them,” stated Ursula von der Leyen, in a press conference held on the occasion of the visit of the College of European Commissioners to Cyprus. In…

Russia could launch a nuclear attack on Germany or the United Kingdom within 1-2 years to “punish” Europe, which continues to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression, said Sergey Karaganov, an advisor within the presidential administration of the Kremlin, reports The Moscow Times. “My choice would be the United Kingdom and Germany,” Karaganov said in an interview given to Tucker Carlson, responding to a question about which countries could be the target of a nuclear attack by the Russian Federation. “I pray to the Almighty that this does not happen. But Germany must be the first, because Germany is…

President Vladimir Putin has remained silent about the actions of the USA in Venezuela, with which Russia is bound by a “comprehensive strategic” partnership agreement and in which it has invested nearly 20 billion dollars in the last two decades, notes The Moscow Times publication. Thus, during his first public speech after the New Year’s holiday, at the ceremony of presenting credentials of foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin, Putin did not utter a word about the capture of Nicolas Maduro by the American army, with whom he had met twice in the last year and a half (in May 2025…

The United States Administration announced on Thursday economic sanctions against several Iranian security officials, accused of coordinating the repression of protests in the country, reports AFP. “Iranian leaders responded brutally, with acts of violence, to peaceful protests, from mass killings on the streets to attacks on injured victims and hospitals”, denounced the US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, in a video message, according to foreign agencies, quoted by Agerpres. As a response, the Treasury Department imposes a new round of economic sanctions targeting Iranian interests. Among those targeted is Ali Larijani, who leads Iran’s highest security body as Secretary of the…

In spite of the authorities’ promises to reduce the medical staff deficit, the problem continues to worsen. In 2024, Russia had 1,407,500 mid-level medical workers, or 96.3 specialists per 10,000 inhabitants. This is the lowest indicator since 1960, when there were 69.2 doctors per 10,000 inhabitants, according to Rosstat data, published in the “Russian Statistical Yearbook”, cited by the “Verstka” publication. Official statistics show that the highest number of mid-level medical workers per capita was recorded in 1990 — 124.4 per 10,000. By the year 2000, the indicator had dropped to 107.6 and continued to decline steadily. Currently, the highest…

The Kremlin states that it is still awaiting an official response from the United States to the proposal to extend the New START nuclear treaty, the last strategic arms control agreement still in force between Moscow and Washington. Russia has not yet received a response from the United States to President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to informally extend the provisions of the New START nuclear treaty for a year, the last pact of this kind still in force between the two powers, the Kremlin announced on Thursday, January 15, according to Reuters. The New START treaty is set to expire at…