Image by Evgeny Feldman The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Moscow to pay damages to Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and his brother, for embezzlement convictions that resulted in Navalny’s brother landing in jail and Navalny himself being placed under probation. Analysts believe the convictions were concocted…
The stunning image is the pride of the Land of the Leopard nature reserve in the Russian Far East has been sent as an entry in the 2017 PhotoTrap Russian competition. Real Life Hunger Games Gears Up In Siberia…Nothing Is Off Limits, Rape, Murder, Nothing Only around 80 of these…
Image by Martin Ehrenhauser Hungary continues to rage over a law passed in Ukraine forcing all education to be conducted in the Ukrainian language. There are 150,000 Hungarians and multiple schools in Ukraine, taught in Hungarian. Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Szijjarto said after a meeting with EU counterparts on…
Video: Saakashvili Says Maidan Revolution Not Yet Over.
Image by Wolfymoza The fact that the Balkans are surrounded by powerful countries, such as Russia, Turkey, and Western Europe, makes the region vulnerable from problems these countries have in common, being small and poor, ethnic conflict, and corruption. Recently, the western Balkans have looked east for economic aid. The…
Image by government.ru “Kyrgyz election officials say preliminary results from Kyrgyzstan’s presidential vote indicate that Sooronbai Jeenbekov, a political ally of incumbent President Almazbek Atambaev, has won more than 54 percent of the vote, appearing to negate the need for a second-round runoff,” reported RFERL. Eleven candidates were in the…
Pentagon Investigating If Russia Involved In Syrian Chemical Attacks Vozrozhdeniya was once home to a vibrant fishing village fringed by turquoise lagoons, back when the Aral Sea was the fourth-largest in the world and abundant with fish. But after years of abuse by the Soviets, the waters have receded and…
Image by Medija centar Beograd The head of the international affairs committee at the Russian parliament’s upper house (Federation Council) Konstantin Kosachev said Sunday that the West essentially broke the Middle East and should therefore pay to fix it. Kosachev blamed the ‘forced export of democracy’ which caused the Syrian…
Image by Alexandr Gromov Russian Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov has stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin just announced today in a closed door meeting in Moscow that Russia will issue its own cryptocurrency, the cryptoruble. “According to the official, the state issued cryptocurrency cannot be mined and will be…
Polish President Signs New Civic Group Funding Law.