Yesterday, the human rights project «No to Gulag» reported, citing its sources, about the deportation of several dozen Russians from the USA to Russia via Cairo, among whom were political asylum seekers. Anna Shumova, an activist of the American nonprofit organization Russian Seattle for Freedom, is aware of the stories of several passengers on this flight. We spoke with her.

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Ukraine — despite all the difficulties and the undeniable overall war fatigue — does not at all look like a side on the brink of collapse that must agree to peace at any cost.

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So, the meeting between Donald Trump and turned out to be brief, meaningless, and strange. There will be no ceasefire on the Russian-Ukrainian front; the war will continue. Until a peace agreement is reached or indefinitely – it’s anyone’s guess. But even if Russia has enough soldiers and weapons to keep fighting, will it have enough resources to maintain economic stability for as long?

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The announcement of the August 15 meeting between Donald Trump and in Alaska shocked the entire world without exaggeration. Even seasoned observers needed several days to realize — this was not a guess, a prank, or a hoax. The range of assessments and forecasts for the upcoming summit was enormous: from hopes that the war would end very soon to skepticism about whether everything might fall apart at the last moment. Let’s try to understand the position both sides approached this rendezvous from and what might follow afterward.

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The problem of Russia's return to peace is multi-layered. One layer is the reverse structural restructuring, partial or complete. The second is the preservation and lifting of sanctions and other restrictions. The third is the social consequences, related not only to the absorption by the labor market of more than half a million former fighters but also to disruptions in business groups tied to the war.

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