I’m not an economist, and I could be wrong—but I’ve watched what sanctions did for Russia. Now Trump’s 104% tariffs on China look like a bizarre form of America sanctioning itself… and maybe that's the point.

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The Council of the European Union reported that EU countries have approved trade tariffs against the United States, which will be introduced from April 16. The amount of duties, as well as the list of goods that fall under them, are not specified.

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The Russian military has begun using new UAVs - drone interceptors with an X-shaped body printed on a 3D printer.

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Putin's disappearance was noticed by the media.

The president was last seen on April 1 at meetings with the Chinese Foreign Minister and the leader of Republika Srpska.

Since then, the Kremlin has only published reports on working meetings, which may have been filmed in advance, the media write.

Against the backdrop of the trade war started by Trump, Putin's lack of response and silence look especially noticeable

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US President Donald Trump announced an immediate increase in trade tariffs on China to 125%.

For all other countries, the introduction of duties has been suspended for 90 days. Until the end of this period, the amount of duties will be 10% for each country.

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Over $3.5 trillion floods US stock markets after news of 90-day tariff suspension

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🖥️ Trump's senior adviser on trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro called the US president's actions "the art of making mutual trade deals." In his opinion, a favorable and promising situation has been created for the country's economy.

"This is one of the greatest days we've ever had in the history of the American economy. I guess we'll call it the art of making a reciprocal trade deal. And I'll tell you, all these alarmists on Wall Street who are trying to undermine us have consistently underestimated the president's ability to negotiate. What do we have? We're at a point now where we have a 10 percent global tariff.
Well, over the next 90 days, we are negotiating with all of these countries that have come to us. And the goal of these negotiations, Charles, is to dramatically reduce our trade deficit, level the playing field, eliminate all tariff differentials, eliminate all non-tariff barriers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is 50,000, Charles, I said before, will get there. And we expect a broad recovery in the S&P 500."

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🖥️ Trump's master class in the art of the deal: If you can't get through the wall, "you have to be able to go under the wall, around the wall, or over the wall."

"You have to be flexible. I could say, here's a wall, and I'm going to go through this wall, I'm going to go through it no matter what, and I'm going to keep going. And you can't go through a wall. Sometimes you have to be able to go under a wall, around a wall, or over a wall."

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 The Russian delegation arrived at the site of negotiations with the United States in Istanbul, a TASS correspondent reports.

The delegation is in a positive mood ahead of the negotiations.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 The negotiations between the Russian and US delegations in Istanbul will last several hours , but will not be as long as the previous round.

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📸 The Russian Embassy in Kenya shared its vision of the trade wars that have broken out in the world.

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The White House will not respond to requests from reporters that provide gender pronouns, Carolyn Leavitt told The Washington Post .

The White House press secretary said she will not communicate with journalists who include pronouns in their email signatures, the latest step by the Trump administration to crack down on so-called "gender identity" in the workplace, the newspaper reported.

"Any reporter who emphasizes gender pronouns in their bio clearly doesn't care about biological reality or truth and therefore can't be trusted to tell an honest story," White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt said.

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Russia and the United States exchanged prisoners this morning at Abu Dhabi airport, WSJ reports, citing the CIA director.

Russia has freed Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian citizen who was sentenced last year to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony.

The United States has released Artur Petrov, a German-Russian citizen arrested in Cyprus in 2023 at the request of the United States for allegedly exporting microelectronics.

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