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Image by Ilya Varlamov Late last year, Moscow news media reported that an armed man had taken hostages at a candy factory in the city and killed a guard. The alleged shooter turned out to be a former owner of the factory, still fighting for control of it. He told…
Video: Courtroom Erupts As Saakashvili Sentenced To Nightly House Arrest.
Image by Kremlin.ru Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when discussing the threat posed to Putin’s re-election in 2018 by opposition figure Alexei Navalny, declared Putin is Russia’s ‘absolute leader’. Putin Wants ‘Some Companies’ Monitored By Intelligence Services During 2018 Election “The level of Putin’s popularity goes far beyond the borders of…
Image by Kremlin.ru For A Better Future For Russians, Americans And The World, We Have To Begin To Find Solutions To The Common Problems Reflecting on my first three months as U.S. Ambassador to Russia and looking forward to the prospects for 2018, I remain convinced that, not only can…
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…
Anti-Putin Rallies Shut Down, Navalny Arrested.
Image by Kremlin.ru The head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, Patriarch Kirill, said this week the faithful should ‘stop losing their minds over Bitcoin.’ He added it was the duty of the church to prevent “enslavement by the passions and to promote righteous labor.” “People are selling all…
“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…