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Romania is worried about Russian actions in the Black Sea and is stepping up defense spending to meet the 2% goal agreed to by NATO members years ago. Only five other countries spend at least 2% of their GDP on the collective defense. Donald Trump is meeting the NATO leadership…
Moscow Voices Concern Over Destruction Of Christian Temples In Europe.
Russia and Turkey have agreed to lift all trade restrictions that were imposed after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet that had strayed into Turkish airspace from Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan spoke at a news conference in Sochi after a meeting. “You asked…
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev decided to move citizens from the communal flats of the WWII period in to low-quality apartment blocks that were massed produced during the 1950s and beyond. These were to last only fifty years. Russians still live in them….
Poland’s Law and Justice Party expressed outraged at French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron for a slur against Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the governing Law and Justice Party (PiS), alleging he is allied with Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with other nationalist candidates and leaders, such as Macron’s opponent in the…
NORTH Korea’s failed missile was heading towards Russia prompting Vladimir Putin to place his country on high alert amid World War Three fears, according to Seoul news reports. According to Seoul Economy Daily, the missile was heading towards Russia before it broke up. The paper said: “If the ballistic missile…
A Russian prosecutor has demanded that Roman Sokolovsky, a man who caught a Pokemon while playing Pokemon-Go in a church in Yekaterinburg, be sentence to 3.5 years in a Russian penal colony. “I believe that there is no reason to exempt the defendant from liability,” the prosecutor said. “There is…
Someone Is Blinding Russian Opposition Activists With Chemicals.