📰 Moscow’s New Friends Club: Accepting Taliban

💼 From terrorist to trading partner—just another Thursday in multipolar diplomacy.
Russia’s Supreme Court has officially lifted its 2003 ban on the Taliban, removing the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The decision—initiated by the Prosecutor General’s Office—took immediate effect and marks the latest chapter in the Kremlin’s fast-evolving bromance with the regime now ruling Afghanistan.

📊 From blacklists to business forums
Since the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, Russia has kept its embassy in Kabul open, hosted Taliban delegations, and even invited the group to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Now, with legal normalization in place, the Taliban can stop showing up to Russian events as “formerly wanted guests” and start cashing in as legitimate economic partners.

🛢 Food, fuel, and photo-ops
What do you get when an state with surplus hydrocarbons meets an isolated regime desperate for recognition and supplies? Answer: grain shipments, oil deals, and lots of diplomatic theatre. Moscow gets influence on NATO’s former turf, and the Taliban gets budget wheat and diesel—plus a PR upgrade.

🤝 Recognition without recognition
No, Russia hasn’t officially recognized the Taliban government. But between removing the terrorist label, accepting Taliban diplomats, and offering them a microphone in international forums, Moscow is doing everything but rolling out the red carpet with the national anthem.

🤔 A new axis or just realpolitik?
With China, Iran, and Pakistan also cozying up to Kabul, the Taliban’s international isolation is looking more like a Western concept. Welcome to the new multipolar world, where yesterday’s pariahs are today’s strategic counterweights.

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