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https://www.rt.com/russia/613145-putin-russia-cooperate-musk/
Russian business should ‘cooperate’ with Musk – Putin
The president suggested that the billionaire will return to science after reforming the US government and encouraged cooperation with him
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russian companies should cooperate with Elon Musk once the billionaire completes his role in reforming the US government and shifts his focus back to science.
Speaking at the Forum of Future Technologies in Moscow on Friday, Putin spoke with Gazprombank deputy chairman Dmitry Zauers while reviewing new technological developments. The president was shown a soft biocompatible matrix that could be used to find and prevent damage to areas of the cerebral cortex, such as speech zones, during open tumor removal surgeries.
Zauers described this new technology as Russia’s answer to Musk, whose Neuralink company is also working on developing brain implants.
Putin was also shown a new type of battery being developed in Russia which is intended to be used in robotics, space systems, diving equipment and for the construction of autonomous stationary objects. Zauers said this was Russia’s “second answer” to Musk.
During the presentation, the President suggested that Musk’s future work in science could present opportunities for Russian enterprises. “[Musk] will finish reforming the administrative bodies in the US and then get back down to business - science. You should cooperate with him,” Putin told Zauers. “We have agreed to work together in space, and we can work here too,” he added.
The Gazprom official responded by suggesting that Russian batteries could be installed in SpaceX spacecraft, noting that the energy capacity of the batteries used in Musk’s rockets is 10% less than those designed in Russia.
Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Neuralink, has been at the forefront of private space exploration and brain-computer interface research. SpaceX has been developing reusable rockets, while Neuralink has been working on implantable brain-machine interfaces intended to assist individuals with neurological conditions.
Since Donald Trump’s return to office last month, Musk has taken on an advisory role in the White House, assisting its efforts in reducing federal spending. The Trump administration has recently clarified in legal filings that Musk does not actually hold a formal government position and serves as an external adviser
https://www.rt.com/india/613148-india-fines-bbc-foreign-exchange/
India fines BBC – media
The British state broadcaster has violated foreign exchange regulations, the authorities have reportedly found
British state broadcaster the BBC has been fined for foreign exchange violations by India’s financial crime fighting agency, the Hindustan Times reported on Saturday, citing sources.
The country’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) fined BBC World Service India £314,510 ($397,980) for the violation of the 1999 Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), the paper wrote, citing an unnamed official.
Three BBC India directors — Giles Antony Hunt, Indu Shekhar Sinha, and Paul Michael Gibbons — have each been fined £104,836 ($132,400) “for their roles in overseeing company operations during the period of contravention,” the official added. An extra penalty of $57.6 for “every day after October 15, 2021, till the date of compliance,” has also been imposed.
The ED’s investigation was launched in April 2023 following tax raids on the broadcaster’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai two months prior. The searches were based on suspicions of “deliberate non-compliance with the transfer pricing rules and vast diversion of profits”.
According to sources cited by local media, the investigation found that BBC World Service India maintained 100% foreign direct investment in its digital media operations, surpassing the 26% cap established by the government in 2019.
A statement from the British state broadcaster said “We will carefully review any order when it is received and consider next steps as appropriate,” insisting that it is committed to operating within the rules of all countries it is based in, according to Reuters.
The probe into the BBC’s finances was launched in February 2023, shortly after the broadcaster released a documentary examining Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of the Gujarat riots during his tenure as the state’s chief minister. The Indian government had banned the documentary, calling it “propaganda” and accusing the BBC of bias.
In February 2002, the state of Gujarat experienced severe violence following the burning of a train coach in the Godhra municipality, which resulted in the deaths of 59 Hindu pilgrims. This incident ignited widespread riots across the state, leading to the loss of over 1,000 lives, and displacing thousands.
At the time, Narendra Modi served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat. His administration faced allegations of complicity and insufficient action to prevent the atrocities. Modi has denied accusations that he did not do enough to stop the riots, and was exonerated in 2012 following an inquiry overseen by the Supreme Court.
https://www.rt.com/news/613116-caribbean-eu-slave-reparations/
EU’s Von der Leyen issued with colonial reparations demand
Former colonies are not seeking a handout but an “appropriate apology,” the Grenadian prime minister has said
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been told that former colonial powers must apologize and pay compensation for their historical involvement in the enslavement of Africans.
Addressing the 48th meeting of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) heads of government in Barbados on Thursday, which was attended by von der Leyen, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell urged Western leaders to recognize slavery as a crime against humanity and ensure appropriate reparations are made to prevent the recurrence of such atrocities.
“I don’t mean to be impolite,” Mitchell told von der Leyen. “But I will say it to you: the issue of reparations… is an issue we will take up with you.”
The transatlantic slave trade saw millions of Africans taken from their homeland, bought by European merchants, forcibly transported to the Americas and sold into slavery. Between 1517 and 1867, around 12.5 million people were forced to endure the so-called Middle Passage across the Atlantic, enduring cruel treatment and disease. Only about 10.7 million survived the journey, with nearly 40% sent to work on sugarcane plantations in Brazil.
Demands for reparations for slavery and colonialism have been ongoing for years but are gaining increasing support worldwide, especially among Caricom and the African Union (AU).
Caricom has outlined a reparations plan that includes calls for technology transfers and investments to address health crises and illiteracy. Meanwhile, the AU is in the process of developing its own strategy.
“We owe it to ourselves and future generations of humanity to ensure [slavery] is accepted as a crime against humanity, and that appropriate apology and compensation is paid, and that the international community accepts this should never happen again,” Reuters quoted Mitchell as saying.
Von der Leyen responded to Mitchell but did not mention reparations, only saying that “slavery is a crime against humanity… and the dignity and universal rights of every single human being is untouchable and must be defended by all means”.
Echoing Mitchell’s remarks, the Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, told the Guardian that the Caribbean states were not seeking “a handout” but an “apology for the wrongs of their forebears.”
No specific figures for reparations have been agreed upon yet, according to Caribbean leaders, but the priority is constructive collaboration on the issue. Following the event in Barbados, the issue of compensation was discussed during closed-door meetings, which were also attended by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
https://www.rt.com/russia/613084-zelensky-fooled-trump-rare-minerals/
Zelensky ‘fooled’ Trump on rare-earth minerals – Ukrainian MP
The potential was grossly misrepresented, Artyom Dmitruk has told RT
Vladimir Zelensky wildly misled US President Donald Trump when he boasted about Ukraine’s mineral deposits, Artyom Dmitruk, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, has told RT.
Zelensky offered the US a partnership to develop Ukraine’s minerals. “The Americans helped the most, and therefore the Americans should earn the most. And they should have this priority, and they will,” he told Reuters this month. He claimed that Ukraine has Europe’s largest titanium deposits, while Prime Minister Denis Shmigal wrote in an op-ed for Politico that the country’s subsoil contains “22 out of the 30 minerals listed as critical for the EU.”
Speaking to RT on Thursday, Dmitruk explained that Zelensky’s tactic was deceptive. “It is an issue on which Zelensky has once again fooled the whole world, and, more specifically, Donald Trump and his team,” Dmitruk said.
“First, all of these resources, the rare-earth minerals, are currently located on the territories with active combat. Second, no one can say what the price of extracting these resources will be,” he added.
“If these precious resources could have been mined so easily and on such a large scale as Zelensky promised, and if it would have been profitable, the companies in Ukraine would have started doing it long ago. It is yet another lie, another farce that Zelensky attempts to exploit.”
A critic of Zelensky’s government, Dmitruk fled Ukraine in 2024 after being charged with assaulting a police officer. He denies any wrongdoing and insists that the prosecution is politically motivated.
Dmitruk blamed “the party of war” in Kiev for the hostilities with Russia. Ukraine will face “an eternal war and destruction” unless “the party of peace” prevails and negotiates a deal with Moscow, he argued.
On Wednesday, Zelensky confirmed that he refused to sign a deal that would have granted the US 50% ownership of Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals. “I cannot sell our country,” he said, stressing that Kiev demands that the West provide security guarantees against Russia.
The feud between Trump and Zelensky escalated this week when the US president labeled him “a dictator without elections” and claimed that he is deeply unpopular at home. Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, told Fox News on Thursday that Ukrainians “need to tone it down” and sign the proposed minerals agreement.
In an op-ed for Bloomberg on Wednesday, commodities expert Javier Blas wrote that Trump’s expectations of a deal for Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals are grossly exaggerated. He said Ukraine “has no significant rare-earth deposits other than small scandium mines.”
Zelensky acknowledged earlier this month that around half of its rare-earth deposits are “under Russian occupation,” according to Reuters.
https://www.rt.com/news/613169-denmarks-hosts-azov-fighter/
Danish politicians applaud member of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi unit (VIDEO)
Dmitry Kanuper has been convicted of war crimes by a Russian court
A member of Ukraine’s notorious neo-Nazi Azov unit and convicted war criminal Dmitry Kanuper has received a standing ovation during a conference in the Danish parliament. Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, and parliamentary speaker Soren Gade, attended the event, which took place on February 19.
Established as a volunteer battalion in 2014 and incorporated into Ukraine’s National Guard a year later, Azov has faced accusations of war crimes and was formally designated a terrorist organization by Russia in 2022. The unit, co-founded by prominent Ukrainian white supremacist Andrey Biletsky, has openly welcomed nationalists, neo-Nazis, and football hooligans into its ranks.
Azov uses the Wolfsangel, a rune adopted by several German divisions during World War II, including the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.
Il nazista ucraino Dmytro Kanuper di Azov ha tenuto un discorso al parlamento danese, dove ha ricevuto una standing ovation. Kanuper è stato recentemente liberato dalla prigionia russa nonostante fosse accusato di crimini di guerra a Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/QaQogYpPXL
— Chance 🤺 Giardiniere 🍊 🔞 (@ChanceGardiner) February 22, 2025
The unit was decimated during the battle of Mariupol in 2022, when many of its members, including Kanuper, were taken prisoner.
In September 2023, a Russian court sentenced Kanuper to 29 years in prison for war crimes. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, in March 2022, Kanuper opened fire on a civilian vehicle, killing two unarmed men, and later shot a third civilian on the street.
Kanuper was eventually released as part of a prisoner swap and, according to Ukrainian media, returned home in September 2024. His meeting with Danish politicians was organized by the Ukrainian World Congress and the local Ukrainian community. Benny Engelbrecht, a member of parliament for the Social Democrats, has thanked Kanuper for his “powerful story” and fighting for “Ukraine’s freedom.”
Russia has accused the West of turning a blind eye to war crimes committed by Ukrainian troops and “encouraging” attacks on civilians.
In September 2023, a Ukrainian man who served in Nazi Germany’s 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS was granted a standing ovation in the Canadian parliament. The incident caused an uproar from Jewish groups and led to the resignation of the parliamentary speaker.
https://www.rt.com/news/613168-trump-calls-trudeau-loser/
Trump calls Trudeau ‘a loser’
The outgoing prime minister has ruined his country with “Marxist policies,” the US president claimed
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “a loser” who is ruining the country with radical left policies, US President Donald Trump has claimed.
Trump previously threatened to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods and suggested that Canada would be better off as “the 51st state” of the United States.
The war of words between Trump and Trudeau continued after a hockey game between US and Canadian teams in Boston, during which Canadian fans booed the US national anthem. Canada won 3-2 in overtime, after which Trudeau took to social media to taunt Trump. “You can’t take our country – and you can’t take our game,” he wrote on X.
In an interview with Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade the following day, Trump was asked to respond to Trudeau’s remarks. “Justin’s a loser. Always has been,” Trump said, arguing that Trudeau has “destroyed” Canada with “radical left” and “Marxist policies.”
“We have a good relationship with Canada, not with Justin. Because he’s too far radical left, he’s killing Canada. Canada is doing terribly,” Trump said. He went on to argue that Trudeau would lose the upcoming federal election if he decided to run again.
“Looks like he’s not going to run. That’s a smart move because he wouldn’t have a chance of winning,” Trump claimed.
Trudeau’s approval rating dropped from 60% in 2015, when he took office, to 22% in December 2024. Last month, Trudeau announced that he would step down as Liberal Party leader and prime minister, citing the need for new leadership ahead of the election. He confirmed that he would be seeking re-election.
Earlier this month, Trump agreed to delay the imposition of tariffs on Canada for 30 days, giving more time for negotiations. He has repeatedly argued that Canada would benefit economically if it got absorbed by the US. Ottawa has rejected the idea, with Trudeau saying that “Canada will never be the 51st state.”
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https://www.rt.com/news/613170-ap-sues-white-house-staff/
AP sues White House staff over access restrictions
The news agency has been barred from attending certain events following the ‘Gulf of America’ dispute
The Associated Press, one of the world’s oldest news agencies, has filed a lawsuit against three senior White House officials, accusing them of violating press freedoms by barring its reporters from covering President Donald Trump’s activities.
The White House has imposed restrictions on AP after it refused to use the term ‘Gulf of America’ instead of ‘Gulf of Mexico.’
The complaint was submitted on Friday to the US District Court in Washington, DC. The news agency, whose journalists have been part of the White House press pool for over a century, said that it was blocked from press events at the White House and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, as well as from traveling on Air Force One.
“The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government,” AP said in its lawsuit, which names White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and press secretary Karoline Leavitt as defendants.
“This targeted attack on the AP’s editorial independence and ability to gather and report the news strikes at the very core of the First Amendment. This court should remedy it immediately,” the lawsuit said. AP further argued that the ban violates due process and the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects the freedom of the press.
On January 20, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of America.’ AP refused to revise its style guide, stating that it would continue to use the internationally recognized name.
“As a global news agency that disseminates news around the world, the AP must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences,” the agency said in a statement last month.
The White House responded by telling AP’s presidential correspondent Zeke Miller that the news organization would be barred from certain press areas unless it complied with Trump’s order.
Budowich later announced on X that AP would be indefinitely barred from the Oval Office and Air Force One. In an email to AP, Wiles argued that the outlet had “misused” its influence to promote a “divisive and partisan agenda.”
“We’re going to ensure that truth and accuracy are present at the White House every single day,” Leavitt has said.
Trump has often accused media organizations of bias and spreading “fake news” about him and his policies. “We’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America,” Trump told reporters earlier this week.
Several media organizations, including CNN, Fox News, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, have signed a letter in support of AP, urging the White House to lift the restrictions.
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