🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡ Sanctions will be eased over time, but only where it benefits the West

— Federation Council Deputy Speaker Kosachev.

"They won't be fully lifted — consensus in the US Congress and unanimity in the EU are needed.

But Moscow shouldn't look back: Russia cannot be isolated or broken."

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🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡ According to reports, Russia has offered India its most advanced air and missile defense system, the S-500, but with additional conditions attached to the proposed purchase agreement, which could complicate India’s already ambitious plans to modernize its armed forces. Russia wants a minimum order of five S-500 regiments.

India, which is seeking to eliminate critical gaps in its air defense system, is considering acquiring five more S-400 systems, almost a decade after signing the initial agreement with Moscow. Despite the long wait, Russia has still not completed deliveries under the original contract, and the fifth S-400 system remains undelivered.

Meanwhile, India’s Ministry of Defence is also considering the acquisition of one or two S-500 systems to strengthen its strategic defenses, in particular through advanced missile defense and anti-satellite weapons.

However, the new conditions put forward by the Kremlin threaten to increase pressure on India’s already overstretched defense budget.

At the same time, New Delhi is pursuing several major procurement programs, including:

⬛ 114 Rafale fighter jets, as well as Rafale-M aircraft for Indian Navy aircraft carriers.

⬛ Submarines with air‑independent propulsion (AIP) to strengthen its undersea warfare capabilities.

⬛ Large-scale replenishment of missile and ammunition stocks, after significant losses in the May conflict with Pakistan, when Pakistani strikes destroyed substantial amounts of military supplies at Indian ammunition depots, including the depot in Beas.

With several costly defense procurements competing for limited financial resources, the conditions set by Moscow for the S-500 deal may force New Delhi to make difficult procurement decisions, potentially delaying plans to build a more comprehensive, multilayered air and missile defense system.

This situation also underscores India’s continued dependence on Russian defense technologies, despite delivery delays, rising procurement costs, and competing military priorities that complicate its long-term modernization ambitions.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸⚡ Preparations for a trilateral summit between the leaders of Russia, China, and the United States, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Donald Trump, have already begun, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said.

“I can now say with certainty that Moscow, Beijing, and Washington are fundamentally prepared to hold it, and preparations for it have already begun.”

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🇩🇪 This week hackers stole around 420,000 emails from AfD politicians.

Party representatives confirm that hackers attacked a hosting provider at the end of September and condemn the leak as "an attack on the German party system and therefore on democracy itself."

WELT journalists analyzed Alice Weidel's old emails, and what they discovered is very interesting and shows who she is.

In October 2015, Weidel warned her colleagues that the party's proximity to Pegida, an anti-Islam street movement, and to the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany (now known as The Homeland) was alienating the conservative voters the party needed to attract.
"In the west we are completely losing the mainstream conservative electorate through our proximity to Pegida, and in the east through our proximity to the NPD," she wrote.


Weidel also strongly opposed a speech by Björn Höcke from the same year in which he contrasted a "life-affirming African expansionary type" with a "self-negating European placeholder type."
"This is deeply problematic, because the reasoning here is racial. It is fundamentally wrong," she wrote to the AfD's federal executive board.

In another message, she warned that extremists were deliberately blurring the boundary between the AfD and neo-Nazi politics, driving mainstream conservatives away "in horror."

She also feared that Höcke's rhetoric could expose the party to scrutiny by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence service monitoring threats to the constitutional order.
"Höcke's statements alone and the use of the term Volksgemeinschaft" — the Nazi-era concept of an ethnic national community — "are enough to land the AfD in that report," she wrote, referring to the intelligence service's annual assessment. "Some in our party seem in a hurry to drive the AfD, deliberately or not, into oblivion."


The leak also includes emails about Höcke's January 2017 speech to the AfD's youth wing, in which he attacked Germany's culture of Holocaust remembrance.
Höcke described Berlin's Holocaust memorial as a "memorial of shame," criticized the country's efforts to confront its Nazi past and demanded a "180-degree turn in the politics of memory."

Weidel herself filed a motion to expel him from the AfD.
The motion, obtained by WELT, accused Höcke of using "vocabulary from Adolf Hitler" and endorsing the "Führerprinzip" — the Nazi doctrine of absolute leadership authority. It described him as displaying an "affinity in essence with National Socialism."

In May 2017, she condemned an AfD election poster featuring a pregnant woman with the slogan "'New Germans?' We'll make our own" as a Nazi poster.