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Image by Michael Kramer Oleksandr Onyshchenko was forced to leave Ukraine after being exposed as an opposition supporter. Charges and arrest warrants were issued as a result of Onyshchenko revealing audiotapes that exposed high level corruption in President Poroshenko’s inner circle. We had the opportunity to present a list of…
Image by kallerna Up to one hundred and thirty thousand people were evacuated across multiple cities in Russia yesterday after fake bomb threats were called in to a large number of locations. Russia state television was largely silent about the affair. However, the Russian state new service TASS said the…
Image by Kok Leng Yeo from Singapore We have long reported that Russia was increasing its trade with North Korea as China began to reduce flows per the request of President Trump in the face of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear weapon development and ballistic missile tests. Now it seems that Russian…
Congressman Prevented From Providing Assange Intel To Trump.
Threat Of Terrorism Growing Along Russia’s Southern Borderlands.
Video: Misha To Face Court Hearing In Showdown With Poroshenko.
Russian Military Establishes New Airfield In Kuril Islands.
Image by European People’s Party Mikhail Saakashvili, the stateless politician who is wanted for extradition to Georgia, broke through a line of border guards today to make it back to his new home state of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government tried hard to prevent him from returning and revoked his citizenship….
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today in a press conference that Moscow would close an American consulate in Russia for ‘diplomatic parity.’ “We are now studying the conditions in which American foreign missions in Russia and Russian foreign missions in the US are operating and we will make these…
Image by Krassotkin The Russian Finance Ministry is drafting a law to legalize cryptocurrencies said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov in an interview aired on “Russia 1” TV channel on Saturday. The Finance Minister proposes treating cryptocurrencies like federal loan bonds, available to individuals. Officials “are developing proposals on their legalization…