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Russia is targeting Ukrainian hotels to discourage journalists, report says Russia claims the hotels have housed military targets, but Reporters Without Borders says the attacks are aimed at reducing coverage of the war.

“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...

Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs [FREE TO READ] Asian neighbours wary of becoming staging posts for trade actually destined for US

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.

Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to halt offensive cyberoperations against Russia, officials said.

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Trump, Putin and the new global order Steve Rosenberg on how the rapprochement between the US and Russia is viewed in Moscow.

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

Mexico’s Sheinbaum to Inform Measures Against US Tariffs Monday 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.

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.

François Hollande hopes to make the French left electable again The former president moves away from the radicals

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

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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

From Our Own Correspondent - A Song for Valentina - BBC Sounds Steve Rosenberg's song about his Russian friend struck an unexpected chord with Muscovites

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 First-round victory of Călin Georgescu shakes political establishment

Pro-Russia hard-right candidate tops Romanian presidential poll

https://www.ft.com/content/bf290387-5f4e-4afc-ac37-0d1c2827cc47

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (25 November 2024)

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

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Life in the Shadow of a Melting Glacier For villagers in the remote Karakorum mountains, climate change is a present danger.

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

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Excellent production - highly recommend!