13 Feb, 2026 09:20

Kremlin comments on EU ‘myopia’ over dialogue with Russia

The determination in some countries not to talk to Moscow is “irrational,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said

European officials who continue to oppose dialogue with Russia are suffering from “political myopia,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The comments come afterLithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda criticized some EU members for “knocking on the Kremlin’s door.”

Speaking to national broadcaster LRT this week,Nauseda lamentedgrowing EU discussion of renewed diplomatic engagement with Russia, arguing it undermines bloc unity. “We have to act together and not send this or that representative to knock on or scratch the Kremlin’s door,” he said.(that’s funny because no EU country agrees with other EU countries, especially when it pertains to war and peace.)

Any European leader can have a direct line to Russian President Vladimir Putin if requested, Peskov countered. The Russian leader prefers contact “even where very serious contradictions exist”because dialogue helps resolve tensions, he added.

Politicians who insist on isolating Russia arestuck in an “absolutely shortsighted, irrational, and senseless approach” thatdemonstrates “political illiteracy, political myopia, and nothing more,” Peskov stated.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are among the leaders advocating renewed diplomacy with Moscow.France and Russia have restored technical-level contacts, although no top-level calls are planned, Peskov previously reported.

The potential thawcomes as European leaders fear the isolation strategy will prevent them from influencing US-mediated effortsto end the Ukraine conflict.

The EU’s foreign policy chief,(retard) Kaja Kallas, previously saidBrussels is drafting demands for Moscow and will not accept a peace deal unless its conditions are met.Russia has repeatedly said it will not be pressured into an agreement that undermines its national security or serves as a pause for Ukraine to rebuild its military and renew hostilities.

(The EU must be freakin because they can’t mandate anything from President Trump or President Putin. It’s obvious the EU has no viable plans to solve anything!)

https://www.rt.com/russia/632407-europeans-scratching-kremlin-doors/

13 Feb, 2026 11:13

=Kremlin announces dates of new Russia-US-Ukraine peace talks==

Trilateral negotiations will take place next week in Switzerland, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said

Russia, the US, and Ukraine will hold a new round of peacetalks in Switzerland next week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Peskov said the negotiations to settle the Ukraine conflict will take place in atrilateral format on February 17 and 18.He added that Moscow’s delegation will beled by Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who has already participated in several rounds of talks.

Peskov did not provide details on the specific Ukraine-related agenda.However, he noted that Russia hoped to continue discussing economic cooperation with the USbut cautioned that any deals are contingent on progress towards the Ukraine settlement.

The last round of trilateral talks took place in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, last week. The Russian delegation was headed by Admiral Igor Kostyukov, the chief of the country’s military intelligence, and included other defense officials. The US side was represented by American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, while the Ukrainian delegation was headed by national security chief Rustem Umerov.

Peskov described the Abu Dhabi talks as “constructive but difficult,” while Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said the territorial issue remains the “main question” of the negotiations, adding that other issues also remain unresolved.

Moscow has insisted that any sustainable settlement will only be possible if Ukraine withdraws from the areas still under its control in Donbass – which voted to join Russia in 2022 – commits to remaining outside NATO, and agrees to demilitarization and denazification.Russia has also demanded that Kiev recognize its new borders, including Crimea. Ukraine’s VladimirZelensky has repeatedly ruled out territorial concessions.

https://www.rt.com/russia/632413-ukraine-peace-talks-switzerland/

12 Feb, 2026 20:20

Ukraine to ban Russian literature – culture minister

The necessary legal groundwork is being prepared by Kiev’s media authority, Tatyana Berezhnaya has said

The Ukrainian authorities arepreparing a draft law to take all Russian and Russian-language books out of circulation, Ukrainian Culture Minister Tatyana Berezhnaya told Interfax-Ukraine in an interview published on Thursday.

Moscow maintains that Kiev’s discriminatory policies against ethnic Russiansin Ukraine, as well as its persecution of the Russian language and cultureare some of the fundamental causes of the current conflict.

According to Berezhnaya, Ukraine’s media authority is working on a bill to ban Russian books with the support of her ministry.She did not specifywhether the measurewould only remove them from store shelves or include confiscations from private collections.

Vladimir Zelensky’s predecessor, Pyotr Poroshenko, banned the import of books from Russia and Belarus in 2016, long before the escalation of the Ukraine conflict six years later.Kiev has since systematically purged Russian literature from state curricula, and intensified a purge of cultural monuments, memorials, and inscriptions to remove historical links to Russia.

Kiev has also steadilycracked down on the use of the Russian language in public life, restricting or banning its use in media and in professional spheres.Nevertheless, it remains the first and primary language for many people in Ukraine, especially in metropolitan areas and in the east of the country.

In December, theUkrainian parliament stripped Russian of its protection under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Berezhnaya at the time proclaimed that the move would “strengthen Ukrainian” as the state language.

Moscow has noted that this crackdown has largely been ignored by Kiev’s Western backers.

“Human rights – ostensibly so dear to the West – must be inviolable. In Ukraine, we witness the comprehensive prohibition of the Russian language across all spheres of public life and the banning of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday, accusing the EU and UK of not addressing the issue in their peace proposals.

Russia has long said that stopping the persecution of Russians in Ukraine is one of its core peace demands, which it is ready to continue pursuing through military means if Kiev resists diplomacy.

https://www.rt.com/russia/632385-ukraine-russian-literature-ban/

Nancy Mace Demands Pam Bondi Appear Before Congress for Monitoring Lawmakers’ Epstein Files Searches

Tom DuranteFeb 13th, 2026,

Lawmakers are not yet finished with Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) led a new charge on Friday morning,demanding Bondi testify before the House Oversight Committeewhile raising concern about Bondi’s appearance before the House Judiciary panel on Wednesday.

During the hearing, a photographer captured an image of Bondi with a document appearing to show Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-WA) searches on the Epstein Files — which she and other members of Congress were given access to two days earlier.

“In the Judiciary Committee, she had a folder open, and you saw an image of a search history of a member of Congress in the software in the database,” Mace said in an interview making the rounds on Friday morning. “Why is the DOJ — why is the attorney general carrying around a folder of the search histories of members of Congress who only simply want the truth?She should answer for that, and I think she should come before the Oversight Committee, because I have a lot of tough questions.”

The Wednesday hearing was rife with several heated moments, as lawmakers attacked Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files.

At one point, Jayapal urged Bondi to apologize to Epstein victims who were present in the room, which Bondi refused to do, accusing the Democrat of putting on “theatrics.”

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/nancy-mace-demands-pam-bondi-appear-before-congress-for-monitoring-lawmakers-epstein-files-searches/

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump, Beware—These ‘Unforced Errors’ Could Hand Democrats a Midterm WinFeb. 13, 2026

With only nine months until the midterm elections, Democrats will scrutinize every move President Donald Trump takes as they fight to reclaim control of the House and the Senate.

Victor Davis Hanson lays out the narrow road ahead to victory for Trump and the GOP during the 2026 midterm elections. History is not on the incumbent’s side. Messaging mistakes and unforced errors could shift key voters and hand Congress back to Democrats. Hanson explains what it will take to hold a Republican majority—and why the stakes for these midterm elections could not be higher—on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words."

“There's another advantage that Trump has. They've raised, I think, $90 to $100 million. They've out-raised the Left by three or four times. And the billionaire class of Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, not to mention Marc Andreessen or Elon Musk, they have defected and it's really hurting the Democrats.

“What they're looking at in California with this billionaire's tax, you can be a billionaire and have property and investments, homes, but you might only have, I don't know, $100 million. They're gonna take $50 million from you on your aggregate worth. That's not gonna go over well with the billionaire class. And there, that's just a foretaste of what Kamala Harris will do if she has a Democratic Congress.”

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I’m very happy he is still alive, he is an absolutely brilliant man

https://youtu.be/xQYHao2pVjw

Victor Davis Hanson: Bad Bunny Super Bowl Spectacle Was a ‘Crutch for the Lack of Talent'This is funny

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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance this past Sunday has the country split on whether or not it presented a message of unity or division.And the decision to hand him the stage traces back to an unexpected source: a close ally of Barack Obama.

That’s right. Few fans realize that rapper Jay-Z has been quietly steering the Super Bowl’s halftime lineup for the past several years. According to Victor Davis Hanson, one thing is certain: when Jay-Z is in charge, viewers can expect “an elaborate set with shooting lights and all kinds of crazy stuff”—a spectacle he calls a “crutch for the lack of talent.”

Victor Davis Hanson returns for another episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” where he breaks down Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny’s controversial halftime performance and what it really says about the direction of America’s biggest stage.

“This is a Neronian Roman circus… I see folk singers that used to come there [the Super Bowl], I saw country western [singers.] I had no problem with any of them. Leftwing, rightwing, I enjoyed it. But when you put Jay-Z in charge of the halftime show… we know what it is now.”

(I like listening to him he doesn’t get angry, mad or happy, he just tells the story with great insight)

https://youtu.be/Uy6HRjvRqgA