Charles Mainz
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262 appearances
35 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 22 Aug
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The agreement was signed on the sidelines of a security forum outside Moscow earlier this week.
While neither side offered details, both suggested in comments to media that their aim was to deepen relations.
Russia is currently the only country that recognizes the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government, since it returned to power following the withdrawal of U.S.
and NATO forces in 2021.
To do so, the Kremlin removed the Islamic group from its official terrorism list and
and the two set aside tensions dating back to the Soviet invasion of 1979.
Today, the Kremlin is pushing Western sanctions relief for their Afghan allies, something Moscow also wants to see from the West when it comes to Russia's own actions in Ukraine.
Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
Kiev said it was imposing an open-ended ceasefire as of midnight Wednesday.
In effect, it's a challenge to Moscow to extend its own proposed truce May 8th and 9th, when Russia commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
Russian fears of Ukrainian drone attacks have already forced the Kremlin to scale back its annual military parade on Red Square this Saturday.
Russian authorities say the restrictions are temporary measures in the interests of public safety.
Analysts say the blackouts have focused growing public frustration with the war in Ukraine itself now in its fifth year.
Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
According to Kremlin adviser Yuri Shikov, Putin weighed in on the U.S.
and Israel's war against Russia's ally Iran.
saying he supported Trump's recent decision to prolong a ceasefire with Tehran.
Yet that Russian advice did not apply closer to home.
After Trump suggested a deal to end the war in Ukraine was within reach, Putin insisted Kyiv was prolonging the conflict by failing to accept Russian territorial demands.
Putin did propose a temporary ceasefire when both Russia and Ukraine hold events commemorating the end of World War II in early May.
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