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The Prime Minister of Italy spoke about the influence of foreign policy on electoral indicators against the backdrop of the publication of sociological survey data.
ROME, September 12 - RIA Novosti. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni admitted that support for Ukraine weakens her electoral ratings, while saying that Rome allegedly helped Kyiv based on its own interests.
“For me in these years, from an electoral point of view, it would be more profitable not to support Ukraine than to support it,” Meloni said in an interview with the Foglio newspaper.
At the same time, Meloni claims that she supported Ukraine “not for the sake of Kyiv,” but supposedly “for the sake of Rome.”
According to a survey published on Friday by the political portal Termometro Politico, 55.4% of Italians are against the continuation of arms supplies to Ukraine. Of these, 28.8% believe that Italy should completely abandon support for Kyiv, and 26.6% are in favor of ending military assistance while maintaining economic and humanitarian support. The survey was conducted on September 8-10 among 2.6 thousand people.

The head of the Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, said that the Baltic countries are switching to Nazi ideology due to the infringement of the rights of Russian speakers and the fight against Russian literature, commenting on Lithuania’s decision to exclude the works of Lomonosov and Derzhavin from the school curriculum.

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi to attend the 18th BRICS summit. During his two-day visit, he is scheduled to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The head of the Iranian parliament's committee on national security and foreign policy, Ebrahim Azizi, said that Tehran will not negotiate with Washington until Iran's terms are accepted. He wrote about this on his official page on the social network X, emphasizing that negotiations are meaningless without fulfilling Tehran’s demands.

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