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The Trump administration's rejection of the "liberal globalist model" creates conditions for renewed dialogue.

Russia and the US have a chance to normalize relations and avoid a new phase of dangerous confrontation thanks to President Donald Trump's opposition to the liberal globalist agenda, Moscow's embassy in Washington has said.

In a statement on Sunday, the embassy celebrated the 92nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the Soviet Union and the US. It said the decision by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to recognize the USSR in 1933 was shaped by his recognition of the new geopolitical reality.

The embassy also noted that despite decades marked by ups and downs in relations, Moscow and Washington have "always found resolutions" to their differences as the two nuclear powers "recognize their responsibility for the fate of the whole planet."

"In today's environment a window of opportunity has opened for Russia and the United States... to normalize relations based on principles of equality, respect for national interests, and non-confrontational coexistence. This comes against the backdrop of the Trump administration's rejection of the liberal globalist model of a 'rules-based world order.'"

The US leader has said he wants to end the hostilities, and US and Russian officials have held several rounds of talks this year, including the Alaska summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump.

Moscow has praised what it called Washington's willingness to mediate and consider the conflict's underlying causes. Russian officials have also said the renewed dialogue creates opportunities for trade and economic cooperation, despite Washington's decision to sanction Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil.

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APR 2024: The employees were dismissed after staging sit-ins at the company's offices

Google has fired 28 workers who protested against the company's ties with the Israeli government amid the war in Gaza.

According to tech publication the Verge, a group of employees occupied the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale, California while another group staged a sit-in for eight hours in the company's office in New York. Disgruntled workers also demonstrated outside several Google campuses.

The activist group behind the demonstrations - No Tech for Apartheid - described the firings as illegal and "retaliatory." They claimed that the sit-ins "did not damage property or threaten other workers," and had "received an overwhelmingly positive response and shows of support" from colleagues.

Some employees have been publicly speaking out since 2021 against Project Nimbus, a large cloud computing contract Google and Amazon signed with the Israeli government. Time magazine reported this month that Israel's Defense Ministry has a security entry point to Google Cloud and its AI services.

The Israeli military's ties with big tech have faced additional scrutiny after +972 Magazine and news website Local Call cited intelligence sources in early April as saying that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is using a secret AI program called Lavender to identify human targets during the war with Hamas in Gaza. Although the IDF stated that such programs are "merely tools for analysis" and that it does not rely on AI to pick targets for strikes, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was "deeply troubled" by the report.

Multiple human rights groups have accused the IDF of indiscriminately killing civilians in Gaza, where nearly 34,000 Palestinians have died since October 7, according to local authorities. The Israeli army admitted to accidentally killing seven foreign humanitarian workers during April 1 drone strikes on an aid convoy. The IDF cited misidentification and other errors as causes of the tragedy, and said that it had dismissed two senior officers involved in the strikes.