Leading Developments

April 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—President Vladimir Putin announced on April 26 that the Russian armed forces had succeeded in fully expelling the Ukrainian military from the Kursk region of Russia, which Ukraine had invaded nearly nine months ago, on Aug. 6, 2024. In a solemn, televised exchange with Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Putin made it clear that Russia intends to keep fighting until a peace can be negotiated which takes Russia’s security concerns fully into account. “The complete defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border area creates conditions for further successful actions by our troops in other important areas of the front,” Putin told Gerasimov.

Lyndon LaRouche reports back from his 1994 trip to Russia.

THE "END OF HISTORY" HAS ARRIVED FOR "LIBERAL DEMOCRACY"

by Harley Schlanger

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April 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—On April 25, 1945, eighty years ago, Allied and Soviet forces met at the Elbe River in Torgau, Germany, East meeting West, cutting through Nazi lines after years of brutal warfare. A brass plaque near the meeting place reads:

April 25, 2025--Today, April 25, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the famous "Meeting at the Elbe." 

April 24, 2025 (EIRNS)—This is a moment when the veil of illusion of “current events” is temporarily pulled away to reveal suddenly, briefly, the face of history. The passing away of Pope Francis this past Easter Monday, in a moment of particularly great world turbulence, has provided billions of people—not only the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, but also those in the countries wherein they reside, and others—a unique opportunity for a form of reflection on immortality that is usually kept inaccessible from the masses of people, largely by “popular culture.”

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April 22, 2025 (EIRNS)—Amidst the continued media coverage of the death of Pope Francis, there continues to be a lack of attention to his clear words of hope and peace, and his very specific admonitions, given with profound generosity at his last hours. He said, “I would like us to renew our hope that peace is possible.” He declared, “…hope does not disappoint! Spes non confundit!” This is the title of his Papal bull, the letter issued May 9, 2024, as “the central message” for the Jubilee Year of 2025.