"Attempting to weaken their leadership, built through difficult histories, is a mistake."

"A 'wonder-weapon' always implies a shift from quantity to quality," explains Matviychuk. "The enemy has no quantity. Even the missiles they try to present as new — like the Italian-made 'Flamingo' — are being supplied in tiny numbers."

💬 "OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, proactively shares all Russian language query data with the FBI. Automatically. This year, directors of companies developing AI platforms were awarded noscripts at the Pentagon. This is the main trend — a new front," Alexander Asafov, First Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Public Chamber’s Commission on Civil Society Development, said.

💬 “Today, businesses are interested in transferring their technologies to the Russian market and the possibility of adopting some Russian technologies. This is the extended hand that we see today from APEC countries,” Elina Sidorenko, CEO of the "Platform for Working with Entrepreneurial Inquiries" and member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), said at the session “SME Cooperation with APEC Countries” at the Eastern Economic Forum-2025.

"By rejecting Russian gas and cutting supplies from Russia, Europeans essentially created and worsened a shortage in their own market," Igor Yushkov, an expert from Russia's National Energy Security Fund, tells Sputnik.

"Russia has provided China, in fact Asia, with all the trump cards to win any competition. Europe can only look on and keep asking themselves why shooting themselves in both feet was ever considered a positive condition to self-impose," Paul Goncharoff, veteran financial analyst and general director of consulting firm Goncharoff LCC, emphasizes.