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Twenty-three musical acts from Russia's allies in Latin America, Africa and Asia are set to take the stage in Moscow this Saturday night for Intervision, Russia’s rival to Eurovision that revives the Soviet-era contest of the same name.

Billed as a “depoliticized” celebration of music, the event nonetheless comes in response to Russia’s exclusion from Eurovision after the invasion of Ukraine. And with Moscow doubling down on its campaign for “traditional values,” the spectacle promises to be a far cry from the camp, diversity and inclusion that Eurovision fans have come to expect.

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It was another sign of a possible rapprochement between Washington and Minsk, a close ally of Russia that has faced Western isolation for years. U.S. President Donald Trump and Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko spoke on the phone last month, and the American leader even suggested a face-to-face meeting could be in the works.

Here the video of US observers in Zapad 2025 (Joint Rus/ Bel military exercise )

Poland's State Protection Service neutralized a drone flying over government buildings in Warsaw, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on social media on Sept. 15.

Two Belarusian citizens have been detained amid an investigation into the incident, Tusk added.

Ukraine said Saturday that it needed at least $120 billion ( € 103 B) next year to fight Russia’s invasion, and would need a similar amount to maintain its military, even if the war ended.

Ukraine spends around a third of its entire economic output on defence and relies on tens of billions of dollars of financial assistance from its Western allies to keep its economy afloat.

On Friday (12 September 2025), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Alexus G. Grynkewich held a joint press conference to outline NATO’s response to the violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones two days earlier. Mr Rutte announced the launch of “Eastern Sentry,” a military activity aimed to bolster NATO’s posture along the eastern flank.

BUCHAREST, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Romania scrambled fighter jets on Saturday when a drone breached the country's airspace during a Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure near the border, the defence ministry said.

A threat of drone strikes also prompted Poland to deploy Polish and allied aircraft and close an airport in the eastern city of Lublin, three days after it shot down Russian drones in its airspace with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies.

The drone did not fly over inhabited areas and did not pose an immediate danger to the population," the statement said.

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Can we find some synergy between Sources and Posts?

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● YT info: clear explainer of Europe's East-West divide for U.S. viewers- borders, Central Europe, the Balkans, Schengen, Russia, Turkey, political, geographical and cultural identity. And why does nobody seem to agree? I guess the question is really How Many Europes Are There? More from me: https:// benjaminantoine.substack.com

● Note: I edited the title a bit to make it more accessible in this setting. The video identifies like 4 different definitions of Europe from a semi-outsiders perspective. It does therefore clarify for me a lot about what Europe is in a Political, Cultural, Geographical and Historical sense. I believe these distinction helps us identify the main themes when discussing The Politics Of Europe as a whole.

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) suspects that the eight men arrested in June in an investigation into sovereign citizens intended to carry out a terrorist attack on government institutions or officials around the NATO summit in The Hague. “The aim was to violently resist the current system and to disrupt or destroy existing structures,” authorities said.

Five men are on trial for allegedly forming a criminal network that planned to commit terrorist acts between March 1, 2022, and June 11, 2025, in the Leeuwarden court. Three others are not in custody but remain suspects.

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The Dutch ASML is committing 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) for Mistral’s 1.7 billion euro (~$2 billion) fundraise and is expected to get a board seat at Mistral, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss private negotiations.

• ASML invests $1.5 billion in Mistral's $2 billion Series C
• Mistral to become Europe's most valuable AI company at $11.7 billion valuation
• ASML's investment aims to boost European tech sovereignty, sources say

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Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, despite repeated warnings from the U.S. Congress and in the media that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.

The trove reveals how Johnson has used the company to manage an array of highly paid jobs and business ventures. They raise questions for the former Conservative leader about whether he has breached “revolving door” rules governing post-ministerial careers.(...)

The cache of files suggest that between October 2022 and May 2024, Johnson was paid approximately £5.1m for 34 speeches. The engagements typically earn him hundreds of thousands of pounds, as well as generous expenses to cover first-class flights and stays in five-star hotels for him and his staff.