Why there shouldn’t be expectations about any breakthrough in the negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul?

In his famous Odnako programme on Russia’s First Channel, Leontyev explains:
#Russia

As Romanians flock to the polls, time to bring back my quantitative analysis showing the incredible density of Romanian polling stations in Italy:

half of Italian residents could drive to a Romanian polling station in less than 35 minutes.

codebase.giorgiocomai.eu/2019/11/26/o... #Romania 🇷🇴

Pics from sessions I chaired at the #ASIAC annual conference on the Caucasus and Central Asia held at the University of Venice. Such a great conference... www.asiac.net/eventi/asiac...
And Venice is something else, really.
I'll see you all there in 2025, same location, same time of the year!

@samagreene.bsky.social goes through this survey in some detail here: open.substack.com/pub/tldrussi...
even if little pluralism of opinions is allowed to enter public discourse about the war's present and past, this seems to hint at some openness about what can be expressed on the war's future

Thrilled to finally share the programme of Asiac's annual conference. It's really fantastic to see such a great line-up of scholars who will be sharing their insights on the Caucasus and Central Asia.

See you in Venice in less than a month! en.asiac.net/2024/11/14/a...