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ICE  \nBLOSSOM ONCE AGAIN  \nWITHA SEAVIEW  \nPAGE 7 |BUSINESS  \nPAGE 12 |SCIENCE  \nBACK PAGE |LIVING  \nCbcNcw llork cimes  \n                           INTERNATIONALEDITION I WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 21,2026                             \n# Democracy\n\nTrump's zeal  \n## finds a new\n\nfor deals  \n## life in India\n\npowers his  \nscorn of Kyiv  \nYamini Aiyar  \nWASHINGTON  \nOPINION                 \nRecent steps reflect effort  \nNEW DELHI The battle for India's demo-  \nto normalize Russia ties  \nbox into the streets.  \nat Ukraine's expense  \nparamilitary forces locked down parts  \nof the capital,New Delhi,to thwart  \nBY DAVID E.SANGER  \nHe shunted aside a bipartisan law,  \nrevisions that have disenfranchised  \nmillions and shaken faith in Indianelections.The police stormed an air-  \nsigned just weeks ago,imposing new  \ntariffs on Russia.He cut a deal to pur-  \nchase diesel from Moscow.His negotia  \nthey were arriving to take part.But cockroaches are pesky insects,  \nsian energy firm.And he called for the  \nreplacement of President Volodymyr  \nand protesters filled the streets any-  \nZelensky of Ukraine,whose success in  \ntaking the fight inside Russia deeply  \nway.Thousands were detained,some  \nbeaten by the police.Two days later,in  \nfrustrates him.  \nPresident Trump's intensifying effort  \na powerful act of defiance,opposition  \nin the past few weeks to rehabilitate  \nRussia and usher President Vladimir V  \nsociety activists joined forces in a  \n                march oftens of  \nthousands of  \nmarkable for itsspeed,its characteriza-tion of M.Zelensky as the primary ob-  \npeople throughcentral New Delhi.  \noverhaul of  \nstacle to peace,and its brazen denial  \nthat Russia is continuing the war thatMr.Trump says he is trying to end.  \nThis moment  \nthreatens Modis  \nfor Indian democ-  \nstanding and  \nracy is both so-bering and  \n\"Russia,frankly,has been fine on  \nUkraine,\"Mr.Trump said on Monday,  \nnew life into the  \nIt is sobering  \ncountry's bat-  \n\"They haven't been doing much,\"he  \nbecause after  \n# The laundering of dirty gold'\n\ntered freedoms.  \nmore than adec-  \nsaid,making no mention of the Rusian  \nmissiles and jet-powered drones that  \nade of democratic  \nbacksliding under  \nhave been targeting apartment build-ings in Kyiv and Ukraine's surviving  \nPrime Minister Narendra Modi,insti-  \ntutions throughout India have been so                    \nelectriity grid  \nIn contrast,he said,\"We'vegiven alot  \nBETSIAKA,MADAGASCAR  \nsupply that includes gold from illegal  \nsources.  \ncrumbling,while brutal state repres-  \nThat matters now more than ever.  \nment for emphasis.  \nRegulations fail to prevent  \nThe night before,he wrote on social  \nsion is all too common.  \nTwo decades ago,when gold sold at  \nYet it is also a thrilling time.India's  \nmedia that Mr.Zelensky \"“doesn't want  \nabout S600 an ounce,it was not prof-  \ncrime and exploitation inan industry worth trillions  \ndemocratic spirit has found a freshlease on life thanks to protests led by  \nitable to drive mining barges into thedeepest parts of the Amazon orusebull-  \nto end this war,and probably neverdid,\"  \nbecause it brought him a flow of cash  \ndozers to tear up acres of Madagascar  \nand arms from Europe,making no men-  \nthe Cockroach Janta Party since July.  \nrice fields to find gold.  \nBY JUSTIN SCHECK  \nThe price this year crossed the $5,000  \nmark.That has made it profitable to  \nsocial media and street mobilization,drawing in a political opposition that  \nworld's banks and governments rely onone entity to keep gangsters,warlords  \nmine in inefficient,destructive and po-  \nlitically destabilizing ways.The industry works like this:Miners  \nis hardly new.Nor is his willingness togive the benefit of the doubt to Mr.Putin,  \nhas struggled to defea Mr.Modi at the  \nand human rights violators from sllinggold into the mainstream market.  \nfor whom he has often 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