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Several Harvard professors — including former Social Science divisional dean Stephen M. Kosslyn, education professor Howard E. Gardner, and former Harvard Medical School professor Mark Tramo — maintained contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein after he was first indicted in 2006 for soliciting prostitution.

Epstein planned gatherings and discussed funding for Harvard research with the professors, who offered the now-deceased felon words of encouragement after the first indictment was filed, according to a collection of more than 18,000 emails from Epstein’s inbox obtained by Bloomberg News.

Between Epstein’s indictment in 2006 and subsequent guilty plea to soliciting prostitution with a minor in 2008, Kosslyn sent Epstein emails arranging dinner with other scholars, and with Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz — Epstein’s close friend and attorney.

Gardner sent Epstein a list of book recommendations and promised to follow up with “advice about offsprings.” Two months after Epstein negotiated a guilty plea to two state charges, Gardner advised him to “take a deep breath” and “take one day at a time.”

Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails Reveal Close Correspondence With Harvard Professors, Bloomberg Reports | News | The Harvard Crimson

Several Harvard professors maintained contact with Jeffrey Epstein after he was first indicted in 2006 for soliciting prostitution, according to Bloomberg News, which reviewed more than 18,000 emails from Epstein’s inbox.

^{www.thecrimson.com}

Brian Merchant has done excellent work covering how LLMs have devoured the work of translators, using cheap, “almost good” automation to lower already-stagnant wages in a field that was already hurting before the advent of generative AI, with some having to abandon the field, and others pushed into bankruptcy. I’ve heard the same for art directors, SEO experts, and copy editors, and Christopher Mims of the Wall Street Journal covered these last year.

These are all fields with something in common: shitty bosses with little regard for their customers who have been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to slash contract labor. To quote Merchant, “the drumbeat, marketing, and pop culture of ‘powerful AI’ encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have.”

Across the board, the people being “replaced” by AI are the victims of lazy, incompetent cost-cutters who don’t care if they ship poorly-translated text. To quote Merchant again, “[AI hype] has created the cover necessary to justify slashing rates and accepting “good enough” automation output for video games and media products.”

Generative AI creates outputs, and by extension defines all labor as some kind of output created from a request. In the case of translation, it’s possible for a company to get by with a shitty version, because many customers see translation as “what do these words say,” even though (as one worker told Merchant) translation is about conveying meaning. Nevertheless, “translation” work had already started to condense to a world where humans would at times clean up machine-generated text, and the same worker warned that the same might come for other industries.

Yet the problem is that translation is a heavily output-driven industry, one where (idiot) bosses can say “oh yeah that’s fine” because they ran an output back through Google Translate and it seemed fine in their native tongue. The problems of a poor translation are obvious, but the customers of translation are, it seems, often capable of getting by with a shitty product.

The problem is that most jobs are not output-driven at all, and what we’re buying from a human being is a person’s ability to think.

Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to solve them. The Era of the Business Idiot is the result of letting management consultants and neoliberal “free market” sociopaths take over everything, leaving us with companies run by people who don’t know how the companies make money, just that they must always make more.

When you’re a big, stupid asshole, every job that you see is condensed to its outputs, and not the stuff that leads up to the output, or the small nuances and conscious decisions that make an output good as opposed to simply acceptable, or even bad.

The only thing “powerful” about generative AI is its mythology. The world’s executives, entirely disconnected from labor and actual production, are doing the only thing they know how to — spend a bunch of money and say vague stuff about “AI being the future.” There are people — journalists, investors, and analysts — that have built entire careers on filling in the gaps for the powerful as they splurge billions of dollars and repeat with increasing desperation that “the future is here” as absolutely nothing happens.

You’ve likely seen a few ridiculous headlines recently. One of the most recent, and most absurd, is that that OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over four years, closely followed with the claim that NVIDIA will “invest” “$100 billion” in OpenAI to build 10GW of AI data centers, though the deal is structured in a way that means that OpenAI is paid “progressively as each gigawatt is deployed,” and OpenAI will be leasing the chips (rather than buying them outright). I must be clear that these deals are intentionally made to continue the myth of generative AI, to pump NVIDIA, and to make sure OpenAI insiders can sell $10.3 billion of shares.

OpenAI cannot afford the $300 billion, NVIDIA hasn’t sent OpenAI a cent and won’t do so if it can’t build the data centers, which OpenAI most assuredly can’t afford to do.

NVIDIA needs this myth to continue, because in truth, all of these data centers are being built for demand that doesn’t exist, or that — if it exists — doesn’t necessarily translate into business customers paying huge amounts for access to OpenAI’s generative AI services.

NVIDIA, OpenAI, CoreWeave and other AI-related companies hope that by announcing theoretical billions of dollars (or hundreds of billions of dollars) of these strange, vague and impossible-seeming deals, they can keep pretending that demand is there, because why else would they build all of these data centers, right?

That, and the entire stock market rests on NVIDIA’s back. It accounts for 7% to 8% of the value of the S&P 500, and Jensen Huang needs to keep selling GPUs. I intend to explain later on how all of this works, and how brittle it really is.

The intention of these deals is simple: to make you think “this much money can’t be wrong.”

It can. These people need you to believe this is inevitable, but they are being proven wrong, again and again, and today I’m going to continue doing so.

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words.

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients.

The pilot program, designed to weed out wasteful, “low-value” services, amounts to a federal expansion of an unpopular process called prior authorization, which requires patients or someone on their medical team to seek insurance approval before proceeding with certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions. It will affect Medicare patients, and the doctors and hospitals who care for them, in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington, starting Jan. 1 and running through 2031.

Protesters said the Israeli prime minister should be in the Hague, not New York City

'Arrest Netanyahu': Israeli PM gets a New York welcome outside the UN

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a half-empty room at the UN General Assembly, thousands of protesters were gathered in Times Square to condemn his presence in New York City.

^{Maysa Mustafa (Middle East Eye)}

When the Great Recession hit in 2008 and Americans stopped buying cars, it soon became clear that the auto companies might well go out of business. The millions of jobs that would’ve been lost and the terrible blow to the American economy were considered intolerable, so the government bailed the industry out to the tune of almost $80 billion.

It was hugely controversial at the time; you might remember Mitt Romney’s famous “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” op-ed, which he never quite lived down. But what few Americans probably know is that there was a bailout almost as big during Donald Trump’s first term. The difference was that Trump’s bailout was entirely predictable and entirely avoidable. And now he’s about to do it all over again.

In this case, the ones being bailed out are farmers.

Just as he did in his first term, Trump seems to be implementing the following brilliant economic strategy. First, impose tariffs on foreign goods, knowing that other countries (especially China) will retaliate by no longer importing American agricultural products. Next, take the revenue raised by tariffs — which are essentially a sales tax imposed at ports of entry — and hand the money to the farmers who were harmed by his trade war.

What that means is that the farmers will be insulated at least somewhat from the damage Trump’s foolish trade war did to them; in other words, they’ll get a bailout. The rest of us will pay for it. And the economy will get no benefit at all.

Get ready for the next big bailout

Trump's tariffs are wrecking the agribusiness economy — again.

^{Paul Waldman (Public Notice)}

In a move that is sure to make Ripple nervous, traditional financial network Swift announced yesterday that it is partnering with Consensys and more than 30 global banks to build a blockchain based network that will run in parallel with its traditional network. Interestingly, unlike XRP, there is no native coin, rather it aims for interoperability (probably using Chainlink with whom the company did case studies for a few years already). There is also a strong focus on regulatory compliance.

Swift To Build a Global Financial Blockchain - Slashdot

Camembert writes: In a move that is sure to make Ripple nervous, traditional financial network Swift announced yesterday that it is partnering with Consensys and more than 30 global banks to build a blockchain based network that will run in parallel …

^{news.slashdot.org}

The announcement came after the Trump administration last week issued new rules to “drastically” restrict non-U.S. citizens from getting trucking licenses, and threatened to withhold federal funding from states that did not comply.

DPS said it would immediately suspend issuance of the licenses to non-citizens who are refugees, asylees or covered by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects from deportation children brought to the country without authorization.

Texas stops issuing CDLs to refugees, asylum seekers, DACA

The announcement is in line with a Trump administration rule to “drastically” restrict non-U.S. citizens from getting trucking licenses.

^{Benjamin Wermund (Houston Chronicle)}

Bukele wanted the contractor out of the country — and in Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson, he had a powerful American friend. Johnson was a former CIA officer and appointee of President Donald Trump serving in his first diplomatic post. He had cultivated a strikingly close relationship with the Salvadoran president. After Bukele provided Johnson with the recordings, the ambassador immediately ordered an investigation that resulted in the contractor’s dismissal.

It was not the only favor Johnson did for Bukele, according to a ProPublica investigation based on a previously undisclosed report by the State Department’s inspector general and interviews with U.S. and Salvadoran officials. The dismissal of the contractor was part of a pattern in which Johnson has been accused of shielding Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement, ProPublica found. Johnson did little to pursue the extradition to the United States of an MS-13 boss who was a potential witness to the secret gang pact and a top target of the FBI-led task force, officials said.

How a U.S. Ambassador Allegedly Shielded President Bukele From Law Enforcement

A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement.

^ProPublica

New York officials cite a law there that seeks to protect medical providers who prescribe abortion medications to patients in states with abortion bans — or where such prescriptions by telehealth violate the law.

New York and California are among the eight states that have shield laws with such provisions, according to a tally by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.

The Abortion Coalition of Telemedicine said they “fully expect” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, to uphold his state’s shield law in the new case.

Murrill told The Associated Press that she will sue governors whose shield laws “purport to protect these individuals from criminal conduct” in Louisiana.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-arrest-warrant-doctor-louisiana-california-c7147b3147cc75e764607b49c52e6644

Cambio di strategia in casa Rai 1: da sabato 4 ottobre 2025, Ballando con le Stelle di Milly Carlucci inizierà più tardi, intorno alle 21:30, mentre lo slot post TG1 delle 20:00 tornerà ad essere occupato da Affari Tuoi con Stefano De Martino. Una scelta dettata dalla necessità di fronteggiare lo strapotere di Canale 5, che in access e prime time domina con l’accoppiata La Ruota della Fortuna e Tú Sí Que Vales.

TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Ballando slitta alle 21.30, torna Affari Tuoi nell’access del sabato di Rai 1

AUDITEL: ASCOLTI TV

Ballando con le Stelle slitta alle 21:30: torna Affari Tuoi al sabato su Rai 1

Ballando con le Stelle slitta alle 21:30. Rai 1 riporta Affari Tuoi al sabato per contrastare La Ruota della Fortuna. Ecco cosa cambia.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

One of the current areas of interest for the Social Web Foundation is the use of cooperative legal structures for Fediverse services. Federation gives all of us a choice in services we use, without losing connection to our friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. These services can compete on technology, but they also provide us a chance to choose the kind of governance we want — individual or family servers, commercial services, or benevolent-dictator-for-life (BDFL) admins. The SWF thinks cooperatives may be a useful option for this governance mix.

Co-ops are a legal structure where users and/or workers co-own the organisation, and use participative, democratic processes for making decisions and running the services. Studies show that cooperatives in grocery stores or utility companies often provide better service and lower prices than their commercial, for-profit competitors. Applying this model to Fediverse servers has had mostly positive results, with social.coop, data.coop and cosocial.ca as sustainable examples.

I (Evan) will be speaking about the potential of cooperatives for Fediverse service governance at Berlin Fediday 2025, this coming Saturday, October 4. 2025 is the International Year of the Cooperative, which makes it a great time to talk about Fediverse cooperatives. I’m a fan of cooperatives; cosocial.ca is my home Fediverse service for personal use. I’ll be discussing some of SWF’s ideas to take the learnings of existing coops on the Fediverse and expand them to new users.

Consumer Cooperatives · Consumer Federation of America

CFA has long believed that cooperatives are a vital element in the American economy. Consumer cooperatives are businesses which belong to the people who use them.

^{Consumer Federation of America}

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-preside-over-unusual-military-gathering-virginia-2025-09-30/

The address comes 10 years after his predecessor’s groundbreaking statement on global warming. His words will be watched for signals on the direction of the new papacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/climate/pope-leo-climate-speech-laudato-si.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p08.-sV-.cDyLNckKkJ5q

Environmental justice advocates say California missed an opportunity to advance its clean-air goals against a hostile Trump administration and resurgent oil industry

Newsom stakes claim as U.S. climate leader. Some back home disagree

Environmental justice advocates say California missed an opportunity to advance its clean air goals against a hostile Trump administration and resurgent Big Oil

^{Raheem Hosseini (San Francisco Chronicle)}

Oggi è uno di quei giorni in cui che palle l’universo, odio la miseria, evviva la morte!!! Perché ancora non mi capacito di come le cose mi possano andare superstorte in modi così scemi che non dovrebbero essere proprio nemmeno in primo luogo concepibili… e si, d’accordo, in fondo in fondo questo tipo di questione […]

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2025-09-30 13:49:55

mancanza di skill in tempi orari: così appare la tragedia ultimissima (ho perso il bus e succedono cose perché non riesco a regolarmi con il tempo)

Oggi è uno di quei giorni in cui che palle l’universo, odio la miseria, evviva la morte!!! Perché ancora non mi capacito di come le cose mi possano andare superstorte in modi così scemi che non dovrebbero essere proprio nemmeno in primo luogo concepibili… e si, d’accordo, in fondo in fondo questo tipo di questione va sempre a ricondursi direttamente ed unicamente ai miei problemi di skill, e non ho vergogna a dirlo, ma questo non mi fa magicamente perdere il diritto di lamentarmi… non ce la posso più fare. 🫩

La cosa per niente simpatica di cui sto facendo esperienza ultimamente è che la mattina, quando devo uscire di casa (e già qui…), se mi sveglio ad un orario per cui mi lascio giusto il poco tempo di fare colazione, lavarmi e preparare la roba che manca, sapendo che ho quel tempo lì abbastanza definito e scandito senza troppo margine di sminchiamento — entro un limite, chiaramente; meno 3 quarti d’ora comunque non ce li posso mettere — allora non faccio tardi… Ma se, piuttosto, mi posso alzare alle 10, non cucinata di sonno, ma allo stesso tempo con un enorme margine di manovra per perdere tempo involontariamente… il tempo lo perdo, e succede come stamattina… 🥱

Zio canino del carbossile carbonizzato, perché come ho perso tempo stamattina, e di conseguenza l’autobus, e di conseguenza ancora più tempo in una misura anche questa allucinante, mai nemmeno in passato io! Sono scesa verso le 11:59 anziché le 11:56 (e non mi sembra una differenza significativa!), sapendo che il fottuto autobus è segnato per le 12, ma tale fottuto autobus non l’ho mai visto passare (neanche per la strada fino alla fermata, dove di solito lo vedo; quindi, o proprio non è passato, e in tal caso veramente ci sarebbe da far cadere il cielo, perché pure per gli standard della SITA una cosa così è infinitamente terribile, o ha fatto prima di quanto gli sarebbe concesso). E però, le altre mattine, essendo solo di poco meno in ritardo, non l’ho mai perso… anzi, no; le altre mattine è sempre passato e ho preso quello che è segnato come 10 minuti prima, ma che fa sempre tardi, addirittura! 😭

Zio porcinante della sminchianza terminale (oggi si bestemmia!), ho controllato 3 volte sulla tabella merdosa complicatissima della SITA che si, questo autobus delle 12 esiste davvero e deve passare nei giorni scolastici (come oggi), ma nella pratica non ho potuto fare altro che rimanere lì un’ora buona per niente, aspettando poi l’autobus delle 13, che però fa via lunga e quindi sono arrivata pure con mezz’ora di ritardo a lezione… E ok, in realtà niente di valore fu perduto in questo, perché tanto non è che stia spiegando cose epiche, ma il culo non può fare altro che rodermi. Pure perché non è che aspettare a quella fermata di minchia sia comodo (ma anche altre fermate di minchia nella mia città, tranne forse una o due), senza uno straccio di panchina e con ombra presente solo in punti super-sconvenienti… 😾

Ma ok, dopo ormai più di 2 anni dovrei aver imparato a non cadere più negli inganni dei poteri forty applicati per mezzo della SITA… quindi, se ancora mi succede, allora si, magari è colpa mia… ma davvero non comprendo questo fenomeno del tempo, al di là di tutto. Se ne ho troppo, non mi regolo, e finisco non solo per perderlo avendo poco di valore in cambio (perché non è che spendo tempo a fare chissà cosa, semplicemente mi distraggo), ma a strisciarmi tutta la roba più avanti del dovuto, e boh… però semplicemente far finta di dover prendere il bus prima del dovuto nemmeno funziona, perché poi mi secco ad aspettare lì 15-20 minuti, col sole che cuoce (e quello rimane pure in inverno alla mia fermata a quest’ora, è insensato!) senza uno straccio di panchina e con addosso lo zaino che inspiegabilmente mi fa sudare le ascelle (e solo le ascelle, ma come cazzo è possibile?) e mi rovina la maglietta pulita e mi fa puzzare… BASTA! 💔
(Bombe, bombe, mi servono le bombe per scappare da questa tortura…)
#pensieri #tempo #vita

The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

by David Dayen, Whitney Curry Wimbish

September 30, 2025

The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

^{David Dayen (The American Prospect)}

L’uovo dell’angelo (Tenshi no tamago) non avete mai visto qualcosa del genere

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Russia’s war against Ukraine

From left to right, Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Benjamin Haddad, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha address the media during the Weimar Triangle meeting press conference in Warsaw, Poland, on September 29, 2025. (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Some Russian units encircled near Dobropillia in Donetsk Oblast, Syrskyi says. Over the past month, Ukrainian forces have been pushing back Russian troops who had advanced 15-20 kilometers (6 miles) toward the strategic Dobropillia–Kramatorsk highway, near the contested city of Pokrovsk.

Ukrainian FPV drone destroys Russian Mi-28N helicopter, military says. The 59th Brigade of the Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed the Russian helicopter near the village of Kotliarivka, in Donetsk Oblast.

Zelensky calls for closing Baltic Sea for Russia over drone incursions. “There is growing evidence that Russia may have used tankers in the Baltic Sea to launch drones — the drones that caused major disruption in Northern Europe,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Ukrainian forces strike military-linked factory in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, General Staff confirms. Ukrainian Navy Commander Oleksii Neizhpapa confirmed that the strike was carried out using Neptune cruise missiles.

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Record 120-hour power blackout hits Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The ZNPP, the largest nuclear power station in Europe, has been under Russian occupation since March 2022.

‘Confirmation of Kremlin state policy’ — Ukraine slams Russia’s withdrawal from torture prevention convention. “The path Russia has chosen is that of a repressive, murderous state. Its denunciation of the convention only confirms that torture and inhuman treatment are systemic practices of the Kremlin,” Ukraine’s Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said.

Ukrainian specialists join Danish forces for counter-drone drills amid airspace violations. Ukrainian specialists arrived in Denmark on Sept. 29 to join Danish forces in counter-drone exercises following recent reports of unidentified drones violating the Nordic country’s airspace.

‘There are no such things as sanctuaries’ — Ukraine can conduct strikes deep within Russian territory, Kellogg says. Washington authorizes specific instances where Ukraine can carry out long-range strikes within Russia, U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg said on Sept. 28.

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Ukraine war latest: Russian military-linked factory in Bryansk Oblast hit with Neptune missiles, Kyiv says

Ukrainian forces struck the Elektrodetal factory in the town of Karachev, located in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, the General Staff confirmed on Sept. 29. The factory produces a range of electrical connectors for both military and industrial use.

Photo: Navy Commander Oleksii Neizhpapa/Facebook

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Despite bomb threats, war fears, and disinformation, Moldovans still show up to reject Russia

Moldova’s ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) secured just over 50% of the vote, keeping the country on a European path in spite of Russian influence that had plagued the country for months ahead of the election.

Photo: STR / NurPhoto / Getty Images

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‘Tantamount to defeat’ — even Russian propagandists don’t think the war in Ukraine is going well

After months of disagreement over peace talks, the White House and several Kremlin propagandists are finally in unison about something — Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going well for Moscow.

Photo: Serhii Mykhalchuk / Getty Images

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Trump’s Belarus gamble: humanitarian victory or diplomatic stalemate?

The rapid thawing of long-frozen U.S.-Belarusian diplomatic relations continues to make the headlines, with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Envoy John Coale making another trip to Belarus on Sept. 11.

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Slump in Russian dividends adds pressure to war-stretched public finances

Russian companies are slashing dividend payments as lower oil prices and a stronger ruble weigh on profits, complicating the government’s efforts to finance higher spending on the country’s decade-long war against Ukraine.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

Russian attacks kill 3, injure 76 in Ukraine over past day. The largest number of injuries was reported in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where a Russian attack wounded 49 people.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,109,590 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,080 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

International response

Germany to deliver 2 Patriot systems to Ukraine by 2026, Pistorius says. “Russia’s recent attack with more than 580 and over 40 missiles have once again underlined the importance of strengthening Ukraine’s air defense,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistoruis said.

Hungary bans 12 Ukrainian media outlets. Hungary blocked 12 Ukrainian media outlets in response to Kyiv’s earlier ban on several foreign, including Hungarian, publications over Russian narratives, Hungarian Cabinet Minister Gergely Gulyas said on Sept. 29.

Orban says Ukraine ‘is not a sovereign country’ following alleged Hungarian drone incursion. “We will be eager to hear his thoughts on state sovereignty and independence once he has broken free from his dependence on Russian energy, as U.S. President Donald Trump and European partners insisted multiple times,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.

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Russia plans to draft 135,000 people during autumn conscription. Russia holds conscription drives twice a year, spring and fall. This autumn’s draft will run from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31.

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