A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire on people in a restaurant located in the Finnish town of Imatra close to the Russian border in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. As a result of the fire, the mayor of the small town and two female journalists received gunshot wounds…
Interfax is reporting that the Eurovision 2017 organizing committee is considering moving the singing contest from Kiev to Russia. This is due to bureaucratic delays and lack of commitment on the part of the Ukrainian authorities for the preparation of the event, says the German periodical Bild. The contest last…
Russia, one of the largest remaining markets for natural fur clothing is now requiring that all fur products sold to the consumer contain an embedded microchip. The microchip will contain information on the animal whose fur was used in the making of the garment, the country of origin of the…
In new interview for the Italian publication Corriere della Sera, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov expressed his opinion that the US and NATO are intentionally ratcheting up the level of tension on the Alliance’s eastern frontiers. Referring in his words to a “mythical” eastern menace, NATO is pre-positioning heavy military…