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With the Chinese buying up much of Hollywood, and influencing the portrayal of Chinese issues, and other agendas I’m sure the US is not aware of, maybe it’s time to look abroad for your next movie. The self-importance of the Hollywood stars has been so thick recently you can choke…
Russian-British relations went further south last night, when Moscow blamed the British Secret Intelligence Service, so called MI6, for the dossier of “dirty claims” about Donald Trump. In a Twitter post, the Russian embassy in London suggested the dossier’s author was still working for MI6 and was briefing both ways…
21 MPs and 27 members of Georgia’s United National Movement have announced they are leaving the party today; 31 members of the political council and 5 MPs have decided to remain, including ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is now in the opposition in Ukraine. Those who split from the party declared that a new…
The iconic St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg, will not be turned over to the Russian Orthodox Church as planned. The city of St. Petersburg will stay in control of the structure and rent it free to the church instead. The cathedral was under the control of the Communist Party…
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, while delivering a lecture in Moscow, said the Kremlin wants to avoid an arms race and will shift its focus to conventional, precision guided, munitions. The reference to an arms race seems to be referring to President-elect Donald Trump’s earlier comments that the U.S. would…
A second, successful cyber attack was conducted against the Ukrainian power grid in December by hackers linked to the Russian government, causing power outages in the capital city of Kyiv. The attacks targeted critical infrastructure and were meant to sow confusion, rather than cripple the country. The incident came a…
Georgia will switch to a monetary compensation plan with Gazprom in exchange for allowing transport of Russian natural gas to Armenia. After long negotiations, the Georgian government made “an optional” decision and accepted the offer from Gazprom regarding transition to a monetary form of payment for the transit of…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said today in a news conference that there will be no ‘reset’ with the Russian Federation. Trump mocked Hillary Clinton’s famous episode where she gave him a red reset button with the wrong word written on it. Russian and American relations worsened under Clinton and the…
Belarus Opens Visa-Free Regime For Citizens Of 80 Countries.
Three weeks after Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was murdered while speaking at a photo exhibit in Ankara, 55-year-old Russian consul, Andrei Malanin was found dead on his bathroom floor on Monday afternoon. As his colleagues declared to Greek media, he did not come to work in the morning…