Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor may block the popular social media sites Youtube and Instagram over videos involved in a scandal involving a Russian politician and an oligarch close to President Putin. Anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny posted an investigation online, and via the social media outlets, describing alleged corruption between Deputy…
Moscow cancelled Maslenitsa Festivities, which celebrate the last week before Lent and the upcoming long fast, due to the crash of a Saratove airlines flight shortly after take off from Domodedovo Airport, on the way to the Russian city of Omsk. 71 people on board ranging from age 5 to…
Svaboda.org We were not going to report on the allegations of a young prostitute, calling herself Nastya Rybka, in the Russian press as it seemed scandalous for scandal’s sake. However, the issue is just not dying down in Russia with independent media continuing to report on the allegations Russian opposition…
Image by Kremlin.ru Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week that he thinks Russia will eventually achieve normal relations with the West and Washington/Brussels will get bored with sanctions. “I believe that soon they will get bored with it. Those who do such things,” Putin told a congress of the…
A U.S. military airstrike has killed over 100 Pro-regime soldiers fighting for the Assad government, against anti-Assad rebels. Russian contract soldiers were killed in the attack. Russian Attack Jet Shot Down Over Syria By Rebels, Pilot Dead According to Igor Girkin, an ex-commander of Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, two…
Stalin famously remarked that when it came to elections it was not the voters whose opinions counted, it was the opinions of those who counted the votes that carried the day. This opinion is widely shared today by the global elites in places like Beijing, Moscow, Brussels, and Washington DC….
Image by sovraskin Russia called in the army to help reign in chaos in the capital city of Moscow as the ‘storm of the century’ dumped record amounts of snow, paralyzing the population. “Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Sunday that 100 engineer brigade troops, two military graders and a tractor had…
Prima ballerina Kseniya Zakharova was accepting the audience’s plaudits for her debut as Juliet when she turned to find Romeo on his knee offering her an engagement ring. Premier dancer Nikolay Maltsev, 21, took not only Kseniya by surprise with his proposal, but the entire audience in the almost 1,800…
The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that a Russian Su-25 ground attack plane was shot down over Syria by anti-Assad rebels. The pilot safely parachuted but was killed on the ground by rebel ground forces. Putin Declares Syrian War Over Screenshot “On 3 February 2018, a Russian fighter jet Su-25…
Image by U.S. Army Materiel Command The Russian Foreign Ministry is warning Russian citizens that American security services are ‘hunting’ for Russians abroad. “Despite our calls to improve cooperation…American intelligence services are virtually ‘hunting’ for Russians all over the world,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on its…