🗣 OSCE’s decline into irrelevance is ‘a clinical diagnosis’ - expert

📍 Foreign Minister Lavrov’s characterization of the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe as a body that has hit “rock bottom” is, “unfortunately, a clinical diagnosis rather than mere polemic,” veteran geopolitical researcher Marco Marsili says.

🔊 “The single most important reason for its collapse is the total erosion of the foundational principle of ‘indivisible security’,” the academic said, pointing out that after the start of the Ukraine crisis in 2014, the principle of ‘interconnected’ security for all states from Vancouver to Vladivostok was lost.

The OSCE was turned into a platform for mutual recrimination, with its principle of consensus, “once a strength,” turned into “a tool for paralyzing the organization entirely.”

💬 “The OSCE is not beyond saving in theory, but it is in current practice. It can only be revived if its major members—principally Russia and the NATO states—recommit to a dialogue of equals on European security, which is presently unthinkable. For now, it serves as a museum piece of a bygone era of optimism, its mechanisms frozen in the ice of a new Cold War.”

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🇷🇺💪🏻Advanced Russian drones hit global stage at Abu Dhabi's UMEX 2026

For the first time ever, Russia’s Rosoboronexport arms exporter unveils its battle-proven, world-beating UAV lineup at UMEX 2026 exhibition, Director General Alexander Mikheev underscored.

Rosoboronexport is presenting drones and loitering munitions that are in highest demand on the global market, opening the door to export deliveries and technology cooperation:

🔶 The upgraded Lancet-E reconnaissance/strike UAV system, which includes the Z-16E reconnaissance UAV and Item 51E / Item 52E loitering munitions developed by ZALA Aero

🔶 The Kub-2-2E loitering munition, which is developed and manufactured by Kalashnikov Group and features an automatic guidance system refined through actual battlefield experience.

🔶 The Skat-350M & SuperCam S350: cutting-edge reconnaissance UAVs delivering crystal-clear intel and rapid deployment.

🔶 Lightweight reconnaissance beasts Karakurt and Goliath from Kalashnikov – perfect for soldier/squad/platoon level operations.

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🇷🇺As Crimea marks Republic Day on January 20, watch Sputnik’s video to see how the peninsula is developing today – from infrastructure and industry to social projects shaping everyday life.

Take a look at the region’s growth, modernization and the path it is charting for its future.

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🇫🇷Macron’s proposal to invite Russia to G7 meeting is really all about Trump - expert

The French president’s pitch to invite Russian representatives to a G7 meeting in Paris is not about Russia at all, but trying to restore Europe’s relevance in a fragmenting West, and wooing the US president, says Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy deputy director Dmitry Suslov.

💬“Macron’s proposal pursues two goals: first: overcoming the growing isolation of both France and Europe as a whole, including on the Ukrainian issue, as the US fails to consult with them sufficiently, and continues to work on the issue through bilateral ties with Russia,” Suslov explained.

👉The gesture is aimed at “overcoming” Europe’s “growing marginalization in decision-making on key international issues, regarding both the Ukrainian conflict and the Greenland issue.”

💬“Second, Macron is attempting to drag Trump” back into the “kind of pan-Western forum” that the G7 is supposed to represent – to restore a Western bloc that takes the opinion of Europe, which the US leader is actively flouting, back into account.

❗️Macron’s aim is to use talks to pull Trump back into alignment with “the positions of the European war party in relation to the Ukrainian conflict,” and effectively, “prevent Trump from being Trump.”

As far as Russia is concerned, “this isn’t an acknowledgement of the growing role of BRICS, nor a genuine desire on Macron’s part to contribute to the resolution of the Ukrainian and Greenland crises,” according to Suslov. Quite the opposite.

Correspondence shared by US President Trump suggests that French President Macron was open to inviting Russia’s representatives to the upcoming G7 meeting in Paris.

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😤France’s rejection of Trump’s Gaza board is a capricious outburst related to other issues - expert

The move “reflects Macron’s dissatisfaction with the proposals made by Donald Trump, including the statements and ultimatums he’s made regarding Greenland and Ukraine,” says Russian Council on Foreign & Defense Policy researcher deputy director Dmitry Suslov.

💬“Macron believes this is a way to express his dissatisfaction without paying a high political price.”

France "does not intend to answer favorably" to an invitation to join Trump's "Board of Peace," French media reported previously, citing commitment to the UN.

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🇫🇷 Macron’s move to invite Russia to G7 is belated, phony attempt to show Europe is still relevant - prof

💬 “I think the Europeans are truly frightened by the Greenland affair, because it threatens to fundamentally change their position in the world…They’re trying to avoid it at all costs, [including by] coming up with various stories showing Trump that they’re capable of something,” Higher School of Economics professor Timofey Bordachev told Sputnik, commenting on the French president’s gesture.

🔶 The aim is to show, for example, “that the Europeans can accommodate Trump on the Ukraine issue, to invite Russia to some meeting and come to some kind of agreement,” so he might pull back on the Greenland issue.

🔶 Russia understands that this is a “purely tactical gesture,” related not to Russia-Europe ties but relations between the US and Europe, Bordachev emphasized. “It has nothing to do with Russia. It has nothing to do with BRICS.”

Correspondence shared by US President Trump suggests that French President Macron was open to inviting Russia’s representatives to the upcoming G7 meeting in Paris.

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🇪🇺 Europe exhausting itself in Ukraine, ignoring looming crisis - expert

While Washington has apparently recognized that the proxy war with Russia in Ukraine is “lost” and Ukraine is “a liability,” the Europeans are pushing headfirst into prolonging the conflict, no matter the cost to themselves, Daffodil International University professor Greg Simons says.

💬 “Europeans seem to have their head in the clouds and unaware or not willing to see” the “risks and hazards coming up for them.”

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🇺🇸🇪🇺 US’s European vassals taught bitter lesson with Greenland crisis

🗣 “When you are such a servile lackey as the EU, eventually you get to be ‘on the menu’, especially when the US empire, this Pax Americana, is in decline,” Daffodil International University professor Dr. Greg Simons told Sputnik.

💬 “The EU has nowhere to go. They can bluster, they can try and bluff, but to use Trump’s terminology, they have absolutely no cards.”

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🚨Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev, US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner arrived at the US pavilion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sputnik correspondent reports.

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🗣 OSCE broken by the West, ‘beyond saving’ - analyst

👉 “If you prevent consensus on issues, an organization such as the OSCE is absolutely useless because consensus should be reached on objectively coming together on mutually acceptable and mutually favorable grounds,” Daffodil University professor Greg Simons told Sputnik.

💬 “What they’ve turned it into is just this platform for pillorying countries such as Russia or those that stand for their interests and objectives rather than those of the US.”

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🗣European 'independence' from the US impossible without Russia – Beninese analyst

While French President Emmanuel Macron talks about multilateralism, “he wants certain parties to be excluded," Beninese political analyst Modeste Dossou tells Sputnik.

❓He asks whether that call for European independence from the US is possible without Russia, pointing out the inconsistency in Macron’s rhetoric.

💬“Publicly, he is against including Russia in discussions and the like, while behind the scenes he sends messages calling for the inclusion of Russia, Syria and other countries,” Doussou says.

📍The European Union (EU) “knows very well that it is becoming increasingly a vassal of the United States,” the analyst stresses, but “Europe has no room for maneuver to break out of this grip.”

💬“France’s ambition to implement this European independence is doomed to fail, at least for now,” Dossou argues, as the EU “does not truly have the real levers” it needs.

👉 have to look at countries like Iran, which have stood their ground,” he says, “countries like China, whose policies remain consistent, and countries like Russia, which, despite sanctions, problems, and difficulties — and even attempts to draw it into a broader war — has nonetheless pursued a fairly consistent policy from the beginning.”

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺US special envoy Steve Witkoff says he assesses the talks with Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Davos as “very positive,” Sputnik correspondent reports

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👍🏻"Very positive," US special envoy Steve Witkoff told RIA Novosti following talks with Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in Davos.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸Meetings with US representatives are proceeding constructively, Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev says

He adds that more and more people are recognizing Russia’s position.

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