#Kazakhstan's economy is on the up, forging closer ties with China. I returned there after two decades as I followed the #Wales football team and consider how the country has changed. My report on @BBCRadio4 From our own Correspondent is at 1130 today.
From Our Own Correspondent: At 70, an interesting, revealing, sometimes heartwarming retrospective on the BBC's 'magazine' programme in which foreign correspondents offer short sketches on the sights, sounds and events around them that don't make the news.
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“Russia has struck 25 hotels near Ukraine’s front lines from the beginning of the war in 2022 through March in what appears to be a campaign to discourage journalism in the area, according to a report” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
This is some v good reporting in today's FT: Chinese exporters are dodging Trump's tariffs by first shipping goods to nearby countries and getting clean export licences before they go to the US
on.ft.com/43hIrCg
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Thank you!
Is there a way of accessing that BMJ article in full?
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This is massive. The real Zeitenwende.
Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to halt offensive cyberoperations against Russia, officials said.
The latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent includes my dispatch about six yellow radishes and the new world order.
Too much English spoken in Berlin so to learn German I went to help out on a farm in Mecklenburg Vorpommern. Listen here to see how I got on: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Still hilarious
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she will announce early Monday the details of her government’s “Plan B” to defend the country against US tariffs.
The first cracks are showing in France’s left-wing alliance, with the Socialists tentatively freeing themselves from Mélenchon’s grip. One figure behind the manoeuvres is François Hollande, who hopes to make the French left (and himself) electable again
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Of all the things Vladimir Putin has said about Donald Trump, what he said today will have put the biggest smile on President Trump's face. He told Russian state TV: "If [Trump's] victory hadn't been stolen in 2020, then maybe there would not have been the crisis in Ukraine that emerged in 2022."
In a fresh poll, a significantly increased number of Finns support sending ground troops to Ukraine: now, 40% are in favour compared to 31% last summer.
More than 50% of National Coalition Party, Finns Party, & Greens (!) voters support sending ground troops and even 46% of Left Alliance voters
One of the most memorable dispatches on From Our Own Correspondent is Steve Rosenberg’s reflections on his experiences reporting from #Russia in the last few years - and how a song he wrote somehow struck a chord with Muscovites in an otherwise dark Winter www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
“A recent study by the Public Sociology Laboratory, an independent research group, gives a sense of the alienation ordinary Russians feel about the war. It examined three provincial towns, each in a different region” www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Pro-Russia hard-right candidate tops Romanian presidential poll
https://www.ft.com/content/bf290387-5f4e-4afc-ac37-0d1c2827cc47
Today’s Russian papers reflect 2 very different Russias. One Russia: the military superpower threatening Ukraine & the West with Oreshnik missiles. The other Russia – where butter, increasingly expensive, is now sold in some shops in “anti-theft protective boxes.” #ReadingRussia
On From Our Own Correspondent this week: the village destroyed after a glacial lake outburst in the Hunza valley from @carolinedaviesbbc.bsky.social ; also James Landale on the world leaders sidling up to Xi Jinping in Rio #g20 @bbcsounds.bsky.social
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Excellent production - highly recommend!
