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Image by Medija centar Beograd The head of the international affairs committee at the Russian parliament’s upper house (Federation Council) Konstantin Kosachev said Sunday that the West essentially broke the Middle East and should therefore pay to fix it. Kosachev blamed the ‘forced export of democracy’ which caused the Syrian…
Image by Alexandr Gromov Russian Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov has stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin just announced today in a closed door meeting in Moscow that Russia will issue its own cryptocurrency, the cryptoruble. “According to the official, the state issued cryptocurrency cannot be mined and will be…
Polish President Signs New Civic Group Funding Law.
Image by Sanskrit Bandit Poland will quit a precautionary Flexible Credit Line (FCL) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) worth $9.2 billion, the country’s Finance Ministry said on Saturday, reported Reuters. “We are resigning from a $9.2 billion credit line from the IMF,” said Finance Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. “The Polish…
Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the aging Admiral Kuznetsov, is in big trouble. Russia & America: The Art Of Winning & Losing Against All Odds This week, a Russian-language report in Interfax disclosed that Russia has cut in half funding for repairing and modernization its aircraft carrier. “Instead of [the] previously…
Kyrgyz Voters About To Do Something Unheard Of Tomorrow.
Image by Kremlin.ru Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with CNBC on Friday that the Kremlin has factored in $40 oil in the federal budget and can survive if the price of crude reaches that level. Russia has been struggling to lessen the importance of hydrocarbon revenues…
Image by Vanya lodba The new Ukrainian law that prescribes all in-country education to be accomplished in Ukrainian as a primary language seems to be weakening somewhat in the face of rage by Eastern European communities inside the former Soviet republic. Hungary, Moldova, and Romania have expressed grave reservations about…
A Quote From A Man Who Experienced The Evils Of Communism…Beware.
Image by Eugene Zelenko The Russian Foreign Ministry said today that is summoned the U.S. charge d‘affaires in Moscow to protest the removal of Russian flags from the former Russian consulate in San Francisco, reported Reuters. The issue of the forced shutdown, search, and now removal of Russian flags from…