🚨🇷🇺UAE one of suitable places for meeting with Trump - Putin

🟠Both sides have expressed interest in the Russia-US summit

🟠Putin says his meeting with Zelensky is possible, but conditions must be offered for such kinds of talks; it is too early for such conditions to appear, he added

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🗣US losing ground as multipolar world rises – analyst

There are plenty of signs pointing to the inevitable decline of the United States, Albert Bakhtizin, director of the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics (CEMI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Sputnik.

◻️ The US is gradually losing its share of the global economy — a shift driven by the rapid rise of China, India, and other emerging powers

◻️ The position of the US dollar is weakening. It now occupies a smaller portion of global state reserves, and international trust in the American currency is slowly eroding

◻️ With both Russia and China and Russia openly supporting a multipolar world order, by the middle of the 21st century, several major macro-regions are likely to emerge

Alliances will form around these hubs — groups of countries with significant economic, technological, and demographic potential - based on shared interests, speculated the analyst.

“Possibly an American bloc, an Asian one, and maybe a Eurasian bloc. The world will become more balanced than it was during the era of a single global hegemon," Bakhtizin notes.

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🚨🇦🇿🇦🇲Pashinyan selling off Armenia’s sovereignty to the West: here’s what it means for South Caucasus

PM Nikol Pashinyan is digging a suicidal geopolitical hole for Armenia by trading sovereignty for shaky Western promises, political analyst Shota Apkhaidze told Sputnik.

By handing control of a key artery – the Zangezur Corridor - for 100 years to the US, possibly via a private firm, Pashinyan hopes to secure protection from Turkiye and Azerbaijan.

The US is not a country capable of protecting anyone, reminded Apkhaidze, adding:

“I believe Russia is the only country capable of ensuring Armenia’s security and territorial integrity"

🔍US long-term gamble

⚫️The Caucasus is a gateway to Central Asia, to Iran’s doorstep

⚫️Iran’s North-South corridor project runs through Armenia and Georgia on to Russia: Pashinyan’s plan could deal a regional blow to Iran and Russia

⚫️The Zangezur Corridor offers a direct route to Caspian energy, diversifying resources for Europe amid the Russian sanctions-driven energy crunch

🔍Armenia’s suicidal plan

🟠Pashinyan is dismantling old ties with Russia and the Eurasian bloc, hoping for integration into a club that may never open its doors
🟠Zangezur transit fees won’t replace lost trade routes or alliances
🟠Armenia risks isolation with no real guarantees in return

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📹 Angry wife fights off Ukraine draft squad to save husband

Ukraine’s military is scraping the barrel, snatching future cannon fodder anywhere and everywhere.

In this street showdown, a woman heroically fends off FOUR recruiters trying to drag her husband away.

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🤖 Russia's Yandex revolutionizes processing orders using cutting-edge robots 

Russia's IT giant Yandex has automated order processing at its Moscow darkstore "Yandex Lavka."

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are now operating in a specially designed "robot zone," coordinated by the Yandex RMS robot management system created by Yandex Robotics.

📈 The robots deliver shelves with the necessary products to employees, speeding up the order fulfillment process by over 30% and reducing physical strain on workers.

The "robot zone" covers 28% of the darkstore's area, with 12 AMRs and 84 shelves in use. One product can be placed on multiple shelves in various combinations, allowing for a 15% increase in product storage within the same space.

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🚨 Putin hosts Modi’s national security advisor Ajit Doval in Kremlin

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🚨⚔️Global South strikes back: US tariff threats turning BRICS into full-fledged economic alliance

🇧🇷Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s “explicit call for a collective BRICS response to the latest US tariffs underscores the alliance's increasing cohesion and political assertiveness on the global stage,” Hong Kong-based political and financial Angelo Giuliano told Sputnik, commenting on the bloc’s surprise new show of unity in rejecting Washington’s tariff threats.

While details on specific countermeasures BRICS could take remain unclear, Giuliano can think of a whole series of steps, including:

🟠ramping up trade in local currencies
🟠“strengthening the operational capacity and lending power of the New Development Bank
🟠developing and promoting alternatives to SWIFT
🟠“mounting a coordinated challenge against US tariffs” through the WTO

“Cumulatively, these steps could significantly undermine the US dollar’s global dominance,” weakening Washington economically and “eroding” the “geopolitical leverage” it derives from its financial primacy, Giuliano says.

➕What’s more, the BRICS bloc didn’t arrive to this point overnight, the analyst stressed, pointing to the years the bloc spent on institution-building, and the growing collective economic power of its members, “amplified” even further by the recent expansion.

👉US provocations, from the latest tariffs to the persistent use of sanctions, has served to “galvanize unity within the bloc.”

👉US policymakers, who “significantly underestimated BRICS” for years and dismissing the bloc “as inherently fragmented and incapable of meaningful collective action,” are now finding out the hard way that this is no longer the case.

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🇮🇳⚔️🇺🇸Indian defiance shows US tariff threats are futile in multipolar world

India refuses to be strong-armed into choosing sides by US tariffs, Aravind Yelery, Associate Professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, told Sputnik.

🔍The country is challenging the “American-dominated matrix,” noted Yelery, who is also an Honorary Fellow at the Indian Institute of Chinese Studies.

“India’s participation in the alternative world order — the Global South — is increasingly seen as compromising Western domination.”

✅Strategic autonomy

India’s approach is rooted in a clear determination to forge its own path.

Unlike Europe, it views its ties with Russia and China through a pragmatic lens.

US tariffs have only pushed India and China closer, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to visit China for the first time in seven years to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.

✅Multilateralism over muscle

Through platforms like BRICS and SCO, India backs a world of cooperation over coercion.

It sees the US tariff policy as “reactive and ill-calculated,” further strengthening its resolve to deepen ties with emerging powers.

India never viewed the Quad group of Australia, India, Japan, and the US as a military alliance, but rather as a platform for sustainable collaboration.

“The summit-level participation of the Indian Prime Minister at BRICS events, as well as the upcoming SCO meeting, underscores the growing significance of multilateralism and the surging role of developing economies in balancing global growth,” Yelery said.

Increasing American isolation — through sanctions, tariffs and erratic policies — only accelerates global realignment, the analyst warned.

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