Image by Hellerick The Russian Federation’s sovereign debt was upgraded to investment grade on Friday by the rating agency S&P, to BB+, stable outlook. Funny Russian Central Bank Video: You’ve Never Seen New Bank Notes Promoted Like This…Guaranteed “Fitch Ratings, which already has an investment-grade score for Russia, on Friday…
Self-described ‘escort’ and ‘oligarch pick-up artist shows Russian girls how it’s done, complete with video on board the yacht with the Russian deputy prime minister. Sex, Lies, And Yachts…Russia’s Monkey Business “Nastya Rybka (real name – Anastasia Ivanovna Vashukevich, maiden name – Kostina, family name – Semenchuk, born February 27,…
Image by Egor Gribanov Working on one of my final stories as the Guardian and Observer’s Moscow correspondent, I took my seat at the Bolshoi Theatre one evening last December for the premiere of Nureyev. The ballet told the story of superstar dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet…
Image by Michael Lucan This year the Munich Security Conference seems to producing some interesting comments. In a stunning departure from his own Chancellor Angela Merkel’s position, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that it is ‘not realistic’ to insist on full implementation of the Minsk agreements before some sanction…
Image by Rwendland It must be hard to be in the Leftist, corrupt media when the truth comes out. Circling the wagons is a time-honored tradition, well developed after the likes of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and others. Today is was revealed that secret files from Soviet-era archives of the…
Image by High Contrast It finally happened… In accordance with an energy cooperation framework agreement signed in late January, Russia will have exclusive rights to produce oil and gas in Syria. The agreement goes significantly beyond that, stipulating the modalities of the rehabilitation of damaged rigs and infrastructure, energy advisory…
Image by Kremlin.ruhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A Russian resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was automatically aborted at the last minute. Engineers are attempting to find the reason for the scrubbed liftoff of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia Playing Catch Up With SpaceX…But Will It Work?…
Russia wants to make sure any ‘climate change’ initiatives do not negatively impact the Russian economy, which relies heavily on hydrocarbon revenues. In other words, we’re going to keep pumping oil and gas and we may pay lip service to so-called climate change…Russia first. “Russia should not replicate foreign systems…
We all remember those images of a smiling Hillary Clinton in 2009, standing with her Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who played along with the entire charade of the Obama administration’s Russian “reset” knowing he was dealing with a real patsy. How in the world did the new secretary…
Image by LA(Phot) Dean Nixon Artan Hoxha is an Albanian investigative journalist who for 19 years addressed drug and other clan issues, met informants, police, politicians, and businessmen. During this risky career he has been kidnapped, persecuted, blackmailed and insulted, putting his life in danger on many occasions through his…