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BREAKING: The State Department is firing over 1,300 employees under a Trump administration plan, official says. apnews.com/article/layoff…

Inside the State Department, diplomats are “clapping out” their laid off colleagues, some of whom have served for decades

State Dept. Begins Firing Nearly 1,400 Workers nytimes.com/live/2025/07/1…

"For almost three years I lived in absolute isolation. No calls, no letters, no visits from lawyers. Nothing. They tried to erase me." Read my interview for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty / Радыё Свабода: rferl.org/a/syarhey-tsik…

My article on how the orchestra in #Odesa#Odessa has played on through all the travails of wartime, and the story of its amazing American conductor, Hobart Earle, who has been with them since 1991. In today’s FT magazine (sorry, behind a paywall). @ftmag ft.com/content/9dc640…

Opinion: An anonymous journalist shares why he stayed in the country and continues reporting for banned media, including The Moscow Times. themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/10/im-…

Putin ally Valery Gergiev is set to return to the stage in Italy this month, breaking a European ban on pro-Kremlin artists since the start of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine It’shappening as Russian missile & drone attacks on Ukraine intensify👇🏼 bbc.com/news/articles/…

Zelensky names deputy PM Yulia Sviridenko as the new Ukrainian prime minister. t.me/V_Zelenskiy_of…

Ukraine's parliament is expected to dismiss the current government in a session on Wednesday and appoint the country's new wartime cabinet on Thursday. ft.com/content/c23596…

Breaking: Donald Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russian territory, even asking Volodymyr Zelenskyy whether he could strike Moscow if the US provided long-range weapons, according to people briefed on the discussions. on.ft.com/4kBEjCE

“The statement by the U.S. president is a serious one,” the Kremlin's spokesman said. “We certainly need time to analyze what was said in Washington, and if and when President Putin deems it necessary, he will comment on it.” themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/15/we-…

Gutting the offices America needs most: among the roughly 1,350 workers laid off at the State Department last week were senior analysts in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, commonly known as INR, including people who specialize in Russia & Ukraine. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/…

PBS and NPR stations are on the verge of losing the federal funding that has helped keep them on the air for decades. Here's what will happen if lawmakers zero out the $$$... cnn.com/2025/07/16/med…

The IDF confirms it struck the Syrian Military's General Staff headquarters in Damascus, as well as a military site located near the Presidential Palace in the capital, and released footage of the strikes.

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan says it's more likely that Armenia will leave the Russia-led CSTO than resume its suspended participation.

Chmut: 2025 is the hardest year of the war in Ukraine. Russia attacks. Ukraine loses ground. Institutions stall. Mobilization fails. Command structure breaks down. Head of Ukraine’s top-funded defense charity “Come Back Alive,” Taras Chmut spoke to UkrPravda. 1/

WSJ reporting says Merz was the first person to inform Trump about his own DoD's decision to halt weapons to Ukraine. (Trump then questioned Hegseth.) Merz offered to buy two Patriot systems for Ukraine. Trump offered to sell five after seeing scenes of Russian bombardment in

By a partisan 216-213 vote, the House approved President Trump's request to pull back $8B in foreign aid and all $1.1B set aside for NPR, PBS and their stations for the next 2 yrs. Congress has now unraveled its role in public media stretching back more than a half-century.

New: I teamed up with elenashao.bsky.social and NYT Graphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

1. In a review essay this week, I looked at Tim Weiner's (fascinating) new book on the CIA. It describes how CIA's "Russia House" doubled in size after 2016 & how agent recruitment grew. It quotes a CIA dep director calling Ukraine a “triumph of HUMINT” economist.com/culture/2025/0…