This is an exercise to practise being concise. It’s something I’ve done in class with students before.
The text I’m suggesting is in English, but obviously you can find something suitable in your target language.
The goal is to summarise the text as much as possible.
When you’ve come up with a shorter version, see if you can make it even shorter! How much can you leave out, while still retaining the core meaning?
You may end up with 3 or 4 successively shorter versions.
“Once again the world is divided into competing spheres of eastern and western power, but is it a new cold war or reheated leftovers from the last one? The answer is a bit of both. For Vladimir Putin, the superpower rivalry of the 20th century never ended, although in economic and military terms there was a clear winner and it wasn’t the Soviet Union. Russia’s president is determined to reverse that humiliation, in the national imagination, at least. In other realms, the trajectory is further decline.”