Image by Kremlin.ru In November 2015, the Free Thought Project reported that Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government, and the founder of Russia Today (RT), was found dead in the hotel room that he was staying at in Washington DC. Russia Threatens American Media…
Image by Archiwum Kancelarii Prezydenta RP The head of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) in Poland, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the de facto leader of the country, declared this week that Poland will not yield to demands from Brussels over its actions on judicial reform. EU Questions Poland Remaining In Union…
“The king of all wedding cakes — more than three meters tall and weighing more than 1,500 kilos — was unveiled at a star-studded wedding in Kazakhstan of a relative of omnipotent President Nursultan Nazarbaev,” wrote RFERL. “The bride’s name was not reported in any media reports of the wedding…
Screenshot TV ORA News Today, as foreseen, the Albanian opposition alliance organized a big protest on the main boulevard, in front of the Prime Ministry. The protest started at 12 midday and continued for two hours. Beside the two main opposition parties–the Democratic Party (DP) and the Socialist Movement for…
Image by IlshatS Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the run-up to the Russian presidential election in march, called for a ‘revival’ of Islamic education in Russia, where 30% of the population is Muslim. “Up to 20 million Muslims make up Russia’s second-largest religious minority. Thousands of young radicalized Russians have…
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday the Syrian government may still be using chemical weapons against its own people following a suspected chlorine attack in a rebel enclave, and he said Russia bore ultimate responsibility. Rescue workers in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, near to Damascus,…
Image by LoudHmen Belarus reacted harshly to the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev’s offer to move the Ukraine peace talks from Minsk to Astana. Kazakhstan Throws Off Soviet Yoke And Goes Latin “The negotiations’ venue is hardly relevant,” Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makey said. “The negotiations on Ukraine could even…
Image by Chatham House, London The Russian media outlet Republic.ru reported this week on a conversation with Alexander Lebedev, a Russian businessman and banking expert. The most striking comment made in the interview was Mr. Lebedev’s assertion that at least $100 billion had been illegally smuggled overseas from Russian banks…
Image by Gertjan R. During the last two days, there have been varied, but emotional, reactions to the death of Oliver Ivanovic, leader of “Freedom, democracy, safety” Serbian party in Mitrovica, shot dead on Tuesday. Kosovo Seeks Albanian Passports As Way To Move Freely In Europe General Momir Stojanovic, the…
Screenshot RFERL Kosovo Serb Politician Shot Dead “Thousands of people in Kosovo’s northern city of Mitrovica paid their respects on January 17 to Oliver Ivanovic, an ethnic Serb political leader in Kosovo who was shot dead a day earlier outside his Mitrovica office. Carrying flowers, mourners lined the streets on…