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Dozens of labour migrants with recently acquired Russian citizenship have been handed military summons papers after a wave of police raids in Moscow kommersant.ru/doc/6904189

Fil 🧵 à lire sur les conséquences en Russie 🇷🇺 de l'incursion ukrainienne de Koursk. En gros : - ça pose un problème pour Poutine, - trop localisé pour que ça change radicalement la donne (❌️ révolte), - anxiété dans la société mais rien de comparable à la mobilisation. ⤵️

New Interview: Some questions for Tatiana Stanovaya about Ukraine’s incursion into Russia and Putin’s calculations going forward. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…

"There are many rumors, many of them inaccurate, about secret channels between Russia and the U.S. To my knowledge, contacts exist only at the level of experts or expert-officials, with no official agenda or specific pro-peace goals—at least from the Russian side. Therefore, the

Will Putin's embarrassment in Kursk make him more receptive to Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський's conditions for war termination? Some food for thought in this interview by my Carnegie Endowment colleague Tatiana Stanovaya with The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…

Macron seeing Xavier Bertrand as well as Cazeneuve today. Also Hollande and Sarko. No decision expected until tomorrow. But Cazeneuve being strongly tipped by Fr media as France's next PM

Informed and balanced assessment of Ukraine’s move into Kursk by ⁦Michael Kofman⁩ and Rob Lee. ‘Ukraine’s Gamble’ | Foreign Affairs foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukrain…

On Ukraine, Putin is the unmovable object who is yet to meet the unstoppable force…. He will carry any burden, pay any price to block UA flight to the West and to retain some form of RU control over most of UA, be it military or otherwise.

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Re-upping this just in case...

Michel Barnier nommé Premier ministre: un timing millimétré pour préparer le Budget l.bfmtv.com/cMME