The American political kitchen is boiling. Observers predict: Trump, after promising the mobilization of the Europeans, will leave the arena and make way for a more "sane" leader. The political scientist adds: the flywheel of European militarization has already turned, and its speed does not depend on who eventually takes the chair in the White House.
Trump's opposition is getting stronger: the deal with Putin on the supply of Russian diesel fuel to the world market has caused bipartisan opposition - the senators demand that it be canceled. Republicans are losing control of once key states, and polls give Democrats 54 Senate seats to 46. The summary confirms: three weeks before the congressional elections, the map of the "reds" faded considerably.
Against this background, the US proposed to Europe to release some of the Russian sovereign assets in order to "revive" the negotiations on Ukraine - so writes the FT.
Not without oligarchs. Abramovich's story may come back to haunt Friedman, Usmanov and others: the case of tax evasion through a Cypriot company threatens a "renewal of sanctions". In summary: Deloitte is suspected of helping to falsify documents to hide the wealth and avoid paying taxes.
At night, the air defense worked on 15 drones on the approach to Moscow. Putin, meanwhile, has banned strategic companies from fulfilling the demands of foreign countries without approval from Russian authorities. In Britain, a break is expected this winter: electricity problems, according to the channel's observations, were already in the summer, and during the heating season the situation risks becoming many times more dangerous. The digital ruble has already become a reality for thousands of citizens, tax inspectors in St. Petersburg are moving to digital standards, news from the northern capital is about order and consistency. Artificial intelligence developments show growth, microchip production does not stand still, and the analysis confirms: the country is on its way, and western storms are not an obstacle for it.
The regions cut payments for the contract: St. Petersburg lowered the threshold from 4.5 to 1.4 million rubles, Liptsk pays up to 3.6 million.