Image by Evgeny Feldman Firebrand anti-corruption activist in Moscow, Alexei Navalny, was arrested by police as he left his home enroute to anti-corruption protests scheduled in cities across Russia today. Navalny’s wife, Yulia, said on his Twitter feed that he was arrested about a half-hour before the demonstration was to…
Russia, Saudis See Oil Levels Dropping After Price Drop.
Image by The All-Nite Images In the aftermath of the Manchester and London terror acts committed (self-admittedly) by radical Muslims who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, various branches of the British Police issued, matter-of-factly, statements over Twitter that warned law-abiding innocent citizens that if they express opinions that are deemed…
Image by https://www.flickr.com/photos/usarmyeurope_images/15243319351/in/set-72157647222797938 Ukrainians were on Sunday celebrating the first day of visa-free access to the European Union, with thousands crossing the border as President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed a dramatic “exit” from Moscow’s grip. The move is symbolic for Kiev, where a pro-EU revolt in 2014 toppled the previous Russia-backed…
Image by Ermanarich After U.S. forces shot down a Syrian drone and attacked pro-regime forces that had crossed a deconfliction line, it seems Russian military officials calmed the situation and prevented a larger fight erupting between American and Syrian forces. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said as much during a…
Russian State Duma Extends Elvira Nabiullina’s Term Of Office As Central Bank Chief.
Image by Bezik Russia threatened on Friday to seize U.S. diplomatic property and make things difficult for the Anglo-American School in Moscow if the U.S. does not return Russian diplomatic properties seized by the Obama administration in 2016. Two Russian compounds in the U.S. are still being held by American…
Tsarizm.com editor-in-chief L Todd Wood appeared on Zvezda TV recently in Moscow to discuss the case of dismissed U.S. National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn. Was it Flynn’s push to cooperate with Moscow in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS) that was the cause for his firing?…
“The condemned were brought by car to a forest. There, deep pits were dug and the prisoners were told to lay down face down. After that they were shot”. So read the notes of the interrogation of NKVD executioner Mikhail Matveyev, who personally executed 1111 prisoners from the notorious Solovki…