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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Daryna Krasnolutska |Piotr Skolimowski |Rosalind Mathieson |Anthony Halpin
After a closely watched call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on Tuesday, the US president is claiming success in a step towards a truce, while Ukraine's European allies remain skeptical. Bloomberg's Rosalind Mathieson, Anthony Halpin, Piotr Skolimowski and Daryna Krasnolutska will discuss what Putin wants from his US counterpart in a Live Q&A at 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday March 19.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Anthony Halpin
Welcome to Balance of Power, bringing you the latest in global politics. If you haven’t yet, sign up here. It’s still more than six weeks until Donald Trump resumes office as US president, but he’s already having an impact on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Anthony Halpin
2 hours agoShamanism in the PhilippinesEvery aspect of life in precolonial Philippines was religious. When the Spanish came in 1521, they brought Catholicism with them.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Anthony Halpin
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit India for the first time since he ordered the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a further sign of that US-led efforts to isolate him on the world stage are failing. While dates are still being worked out for the trip to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “we are looking forward to it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in video comments to India’s ANI news service published Tuesday that he later confirmed to Bloomberg News.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Anthony Halpin
Welcome to Balance of Power, bringing you the latest in global politics. If you haven’t yet, sign up here. Neither Vladimir Putin nor Volodymyr Zelenskiy are among world leaders at the Group of 20 summit that begins in Brazil today, but Russia’s war on Ukraine is forcing itself into the discussions regardless.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Anthony Halpin
The Kremlin dismissed Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s widely-acknowledged election for a second term, saying the pro-Western leader hadn’t won the support of a majority of voters in her country. “She is not, as far as we understand, the president of her country, because in the country itself, the majority of the population did not vote for her,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters Tuesday, according to the Interfax news service.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Anthony Halpin
Welcome to Balance of Power, bringing you the latest in global politics. If you haven’t yet, sign up here. In November 2003, protests over disputed parliamentary elections in Georgia spiraled into the pro-Western Rose Revolution. Today may show whether the pendulum is swinging back.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Anthony Halpin
President Vladimir Putin said military relations with North Korea are “our business” as he avoided answering whether Pyongyang had sent troops to Russia. Putin didn’t say whether North Korean troops were in Russia already, when asked about the subject at a news conference Thursday at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Instead, he pointed to Article 4 of a strategic partnership agreement with North Korea that he said Russia had now ratified.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Anthony Halpin
Welcome to Balance of Power, bringing you the latest in global politics. If you haven’t yet, sign up here. It’s an important week for Kremlin efforts to restore Russia’s influence over its former Soviet backyard.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Anthony Halpin
World News5 hours agoIsrael's wars are expensive. Paying the bill could force tough choicesAssociated Press - By DAVID McHUGH • 5hOn top of the grievous toll in human life and misery, Israel’s war against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups has been expensive, and the painfully high financial costs are raising concerns about the long-term effect of the fighting on the country’s economy.
