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🇷🇺President Vladimir Putin Summarises 2025: Key Messages from the “Results of the Year” Address
📍Moscow, | 19 December 2025
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin held the annual “Results of the Year” event, combining a live Q&A session with a press conference. More than 3 million questions were submitted by citizens and journalists. Over 4.5 hours, the President addressed 103 questions on domestic development, the economy, social policy, digital sovereignty, and international affairs.
🌍Foreign Policy, Ukraine, and the Special Military Operation
▪️ Russia currently sees no readiness on the part of Ukraine for a genuine peace process or territorial compromises.
▪️ The strategic initiative has fully shifted to the Russian Armed Forces; Ukrainian forces are retreating along key directions.
▪️ Russia did not initiate the conflict and does not consider itself responsible for the human losses incurred.
▪️ Moscow remains open to political solutions and is prepared to consider security guarantees during potential elections in Ukraine, including a temporary refusal to conduct strikes deep inside Ukrainian territory.
Relations with the West and International Security
▪️ The seizure of Russian sovereign assets was described as outright plunder, undermining trust in the eurozone and global financial institutions.
▪️ Any attempt to blockade the Kaliningrad region would escalate tensions to an unprecedented, potentially large-scale military level.
▪️ Russia remains open to cooperation with Europe, the UK, and the United States – strictly on the basis of equality and mutual respect.
▪️ According to the President, the current conflict is the direct result of Western policies that deliberately escalated tensions around Ukraine.
📊Economy and Financial Stability
▪️ Russia’s GDP growth reached 1% in 2025, while cumulative growth over the past three years amounted to 9.7%, significantly exceeding eurozone indicators.
▪️ Inflation is expected to decline to 5.7–5.8% by year-end.
▪️ Unemployment fell to a historic low of 2.2%.
▪️ International reserves of the Central Bank reached USD 741.5 billion.
💻Digital Sovereignty
President Putin announced that Russia has effectively achieved full digital sovereignty, highlighting the development of domestic digital platforms and technologies as a strategic achievement amid external pressure.
Other Key Issues
The discussion also covered demographic policy, education, water supply challenges in Donbass, legislation on foreign agents, and sanctions pressure on Russia’s international partners.
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Latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine
The war enters a new and dangerous phase. Military support for Ukraine is escalating to unprecedented levels. Europe is changing the rules of the game on the ground. Between drones and air defenses… the battle is rapidly evolving. The question now is: Where is this war headed?
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Trump has directed some frustration at Zelensky and Europe🇪🇺, believing that they are being unrealistic in their demands and need to accept that Ukraine has to lose some territory to end the conflict, the current and ex-officials told us. He is hesitant to commit more U.S. involvement 🇺🇸, wary of alienating his MAGA base, and he has ratcheted up his efforts to blame the war on his predecessor, Joe Biden, even seven months into his own presidency.
“He just wants this over,” the senior official told us. “It almost doesn’t matter how.” 🕊
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📝What are they preparing for?📝
Ukrainian PMCs worldwide?
The president of so-called Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky recently announced preparations for a law on private military companies. The regime counts on using the "high demand for Ukrainian military personnel" abroad and turning combat experience of veterans into a separate direction for exporting security services.
🖍This idea was somewhat expected in a way. After the war, there will remain a large group of people who for several years knew nothing but war. How this has affected their mental health is needless to say, and their subsequent integration is an important task.
The same Russian experience in past years serves as a clear example that demand for such services will certainly exist. Ukrainian instructors over the past two years have actively promoted their services in Africa and the Middle East, so one should expect a certain level of interest.
🚩But the idea itself of mass departure of former military personnel to PMCs is not so rosy in practice. Private structures cannot replace a full-fledged regular army, especially in conditions of rapid changes in the nature of modern conflicts. Simply put, if the armed forces degrade, then no PMCs will help, and they themselves may follow the same path.
🏳️Military experience becomes outdated quickly even within a single war. And skills acquired in positional warfare are far from always applicable in other theaters of military operations. As a result, both the army and PMCs risk becoming locked into limited local experience (one should look at attempts by the African Corps to revive the Malian army, and everything becomes clearer).
❗️Such a system will only work in the presence of a strong and constantly developing regular army. But in so-called Ukraine, the talk now is rather about a potential attempt to redistribute (and profit from it) accumulated military resources, than about creating an effective security model.
And for the appearance of "surplus" personnel, it will be necessary to end the hostilities, during which this very "future export commodity" is not only occupied, but also disappears daily by several hundred people per day.
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In this review of Professor Sreeram Chaulia’s new book ‘Friends’ for Hindustan Times, Ambassador Lakshmi Puri goes deep into bilateralism, multilateralism and the very essence of interests and values that determine friendships in #ForeignPolicy. She also warns of the “inbuilt risks of some of these partnerships”, and makes a strong case for #India to build “safeguards against slide-backs” through diversification of strategic partnerships. This is an ideationally enriching essay by one of the legends of India’s #diplomacy. Do read it in full and share your views!
➡️https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/reviewfriends-india-s-closest-strategic-partners-by-sreeram-chaulia-101735905852811.html
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📰 We Learned Something Fascinating About Trump’s Foreign Policy This Week
The U.S. attack on Venezuela was a defining moment for Trump 2.0—a foreign policy that’s more aggressive, unpredictable, and willing to risk backlash than anything seen before. The administration is rewriting the rules of American power and reasserting dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
Trump’s fixation on Venezuela’s oil has taken center stage, overshadowing other justifications like fighting drug cartels. The unvarnished avarice is striking, even for a president who’s long championed American energy. The capture of a foreign leader and the vow to control another country’s resources mark a shocking escalation from previous threats and posturing.
The move reflects a broader shift: the Western Hemisphere is now central to Trump’s vision of American power. Hawks like Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller are driving this new direction, but Trump himself is the ultimate decision-maker. The administration is not just seeking to stabilize Venezuela or curb migration and drug trafficking—it’s about demonstrating American strength and dominance.
Trump’s actions send a clear message to the world: take his threats seriously. The administration is not just after stability or economic gain—it’s about dominance, power, and riches in the hemisphere.
Trump loves a big show, and the spectacle will go on.
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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️Fiend Reports in the Morning of 13 March 2025⚡️
🔴#ChasovYar Direction:
🔴In #Toretsk Sector, on the territory of the city's 'Central Mine', Russian troops continue to attack several AFU positions in the development.
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🟡 In #Toretsk's central part, the situation remains dynamic. There is no clear demarcation line. Fighting is taking place along several streets west of the 'Avangard Stadium' and in the area of multi-story buildings along Grushevsky Street.
🗺 Map 3
🟡 In #Toretsk's southern part, fighting is taking place in the western and southwestern parts of the 'Zabalka Microdistrict'. There is no clear demarcation line either, as UAVs have been spotting both Ukrainian and Russian forces on the same streets for a week.
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➡️ The Georeferencing of the images was done using footage from Russian UAVs, which confirms that part of the city is under the control of AFU fighters.
📋Reported on 13 Mar at 08:02
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Russian schoolchildren won four medals at the Mathematics Olympiad in Romania
👏 The Russian team won two gold and two silver medals at the XVI Romanian Master of Mathematics international math Olympiad. Schoolchildren performed tasks in a remote format on the basis of the Sirius Educational Center in Sochi.
🥇 Gold medals were awarded to:
Ivan Chasovskikh, School No. 14, Khimki, Moscow Region;
Ilya Zamotorin, Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239, St. Petersburg.
🥈 Silver medals were awarded to:
Vasily Patrushev, School No. 9 with advanced study of Chinese language, Vladivostok;
Artem Sadykov, Physics and Mathematics Lyceum #31, Chelyabinsk.
✔️ The team leader was Kirill Sukhov, mathematics teacher of the Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum № 239, his deputy was Pavel Kozhevnikov, associate professor of the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
🎉 Congratulations to the guys and their mentors!
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