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In spite of the conflict in East Ukraine that has taken 10,000 lives, the Ukrainian government in Kyiv has continued to trade in coal with the separatist East, even while they kill each other. It is an arrangement with the devil of sorts, where Ukraine needs the specialized coal for…
Duterte, Scared Of A Coup, Gets Russia To Train His Bodyguards.
On February 15 the Constitutional Court of Georgia abolished prison sentences for the purchase and possession of Cannabis up to 100 Grams for personal use. The Constitutional Court was guided by its decision of 24 October 2015 on the case of “Citizen of Georgia Beka Tsikarishvili against the Parliament…
The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph Dunford, and Chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, will meet in Baku in the coming days. According to the Pentagon press office, Gerasimov and Dunford “will discuss a variety of issues, including the…
“Into the valley of death rode the 600…” Russia reacted angrily to President Trump’s recent assertion that the Crimean Peninsula should be returned to Ukraine. The Kremlin had hoped the election of Trump over Hillary would bring a new American policy to ease sanctions and ‘put the issue behind them.’…
The newly minted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov tomorrow in Germany for the first time. “The meeting with Secretary of State Mr Tillerson has been planned and is being prepared” on February 16, when both diplomats will be in Bonn for…
Did you ever dream of visiting places like Yury Gagarin did? It’s easiest than ever now! With the Russian “KosmoKurs” company you can take a trip into the cosmos in 2020. In order to get on a spaceship you will only need to pay 200-250 thousand dollars (the price to…
Three Sentenced For Terrorism Charges In Russia.