"The Western goal is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our nation. They are openly stating that, since they managed to break up the Soviet Union in 1991, now it's time to split Russia into many separate regions that will be at each other
Sixty years ago today (October 28) the US and Russia stepped back from the brink of nuclear war by making a deal. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would yield to President John F. Kennedy's demand that Soviet missiles be removed from Cuba; Kennedy p
On the same weekend that Russia angered the West by pulling out of the UN-brokered grain export deal, which allowed Ukraine to ship its wheat and food supplies to global markets via an internationally monitored safety corridor, the Kremlin has floate
No grain shipping traffic is planned through the Black Sea safety corridor for Sunday, the Istanbul joint center coordinating the UN deal's logistics said, after it collapsed Saturday.
Russia -- "(S)afe transportation of grain and food from…Ukraine and a Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and UN secretariat on assisting the promotion of Russian food and fertilizers to international markets."
An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin factually assessing during his milestone Valdai speech:
The war in Ukraine is not going as planned for Russia, and Ukraine currently has the upper hand on the ground. Under these circumstances, experts say there is no way Russia will seek to end the fighting.
Update(1534ET): Putin in his nearly four-hour long annual Valdai Discussion Club speech (which included a the lengthy Q&A portion) "appeared relaxed", Reuters observed while at times questioned by journalists and panelists about the prospect of nucle
The decision not to thank Russian troops for their service obviously requires an American citizen to make a determination of whether the war that Russian troops are fighting is legal and just.
Update(1534ET): Putin in his nearly four-hour long annual Valdai Discussion Club speech (which included a the lengthy Q&A portion) "appeared relaxed", Reuters observed while at times questioned by journalists and panelists about the prospect of nucle
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Consider the conflict that seems to be shaping up. The Russian offensive is on hold as the Kremlin went to war without sufficient soldiers and no reserves. This passed the initiative to Ukraine fortified with Western weapons.
Russia appears to be legitimately concerned about the possibility of Ukraine building and using a "dirty bomb," so much so that it has taken the unprecedented step of reaching out to multiple senior Western defense authorities.
WNBA star and American citizen Brittney Griner will continue to serve her nine-year sentence in a Russian jail after a court in Moscow denied her appeal over a drugs conviction, WSJ reported.
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Now the Kremlin is faced with the threat of a false flag "dirty bomb" that would serve, as "Assad's use of chemical weapons was intended," as an excuse for US military intervention in Ukraine.
Those who hate Russia the most are the ones who embody everything they claim to hate about it: they're all pro-war, pro-censorship, pro-propaganda, pro-trolling operations, and support Ukraine in banning political parties and opposition media.
The developer of a social media monitoring algorithm explains how his internet sting operation "J6 DELETED" exposed how Twitter manipulated the narrative "in real time" on Jan. 6, 2021.
On Friday the Kremlin angrily condemned the arrests of two Russians apprehended this week while they were traveling in Europe, including the son of a high level official, after the US Department of Justine named five Russian nationals wanted for "glo
We should probably talk more about the fact that the US empire is loudly promoting the goal of achieving peace in Ukraine by defeating Russia while quietly acknowledging that this goal is impossible.