“We don’t need a candidate who’s looking backwards who can’t even answer a question on anchor babies,” Christie said in an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. “We need to have someone who is going to be looking forward and doing things the right way. I’m not trying to be coy about it. The fact is that if Governor Bush cannot stand up to answer those questions with two or three tries at it, what’s going to happen when he has to look at Vladimir Putin?
by Charlie Spiering26 Aug 2015, 4:59 AM PST0
Roy Jones, Jr., once the best boxer in the world, officially applied for a Russian passport. He discussed Russian citizenship over a cup of tea with President Vladimir Putin in Crimea.
by Mary Chastain22 Aug 2015, 12:02 AM PST0
Infamous Russian biker gang the Night Wolves will recreate World War II as a bike show in Crimea, Ukraine on Friday night. Russia invaded and recolonized Crimea in 2014.
by Mary Chastain21 Aug 2015, 7:19 PM PST0
Russian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off of Crimea.
by AFP19 Aug 2015, 6:35 AM PST0
Moscow is close to inking an agreement that would expedite the transfer of several of its S-300 missile units to Iran, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said Tuesday, Iran’s state-media reported. The air-defense batteries will help extensively to secure Iran’s military and nuclear sites against airstrikes.
by Jordan Schachtel18 Aug 2015, 10:11 AM PST0
According to a new poll, only 33% of Americans would support a presidential pardon for rogue National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who faces espionage charges. Of the poll respondents, 53% support these charges, while only 26% were opposed to a federal prosecution.
by John Hayward13 Aug 2015, 1:15 PM PST0
The Russian government has failed to convince anyone to work Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), with the latest rejection coming from Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov his country will not ally themselves with Assad.
by Mary Chastain12 Aug 2015, 11:07 AM PST0
The Russian government may ban the website community Reddit, it warned, after a thread informed readers how to grow narcotic plants.
by Mary Chastain12 Aug 2015, 7:38 AM PST0
Contents: Wave of violent terrorist attacks strike across Turkey; Vladimir Putin increasingly trapped as Russia’s GDP plunges 4.6%; Europe’s bond yields go negative
by John J. Xenakis11 Aug 2015, 4:00 AM PST0
The U.S. pledged $500,000 to the Baltics in order to combat Russian propaganda. The 12-month project will help train beginning and established Russian-language journalists.
by Mary Chastain10 Aug 2015, 6:42 PM PST0
Sunday Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz,” “The Kelly File” host Megyn Kelly discussed the criticism she and her colleagues have received over last week’s Republican debate. Kelly said, “We were trying to drill down to most vulnerable areas and give them
by Pam Key9 Aug 2015, 10:06 AM PST0
In blatant violation of the United Nations Security Council restrictions concerning his overseas travel, Iranian General Qasem Soleimani traveled to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, multiple reports have confirmed.
by Jordan Schachtel7 Aug 2015, 1:03 PM PST0
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) – Russian government plans for mass destruction of banned Western food imports have provoked outrage in a country where poverty rates are soaring and memories remain of famine during Soviet times. Even some Kremlin allies are expressing
by Reuters7 Aug 2015, 6:19 AM PST0
Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “tin pot despot” who personally ordered the 2006 poisoning murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, the lawyer for his widow said on Friday. Kremlin critic Litvinenko, 43, died three weeks after drinking
by Reuters1 Aug 2015, 2:56 AM PST0
“Gay” emojis may be banned in Russia if the government finds that they violate the country’s infamous “gay propaganda” law.
by Mary Chastain31 Jul 2015, 1:08 PM PST0
According to official data, the average cost of foodstuffs in Russia increased by 14.3 percent in the first half of this year, largely because of the embargo of Western products. In late June, Putin announced his decision to extend the embargo on perishable food products from the European Union for one year, in response to the extension of the sanctions taken by Brussels against Moscow for its role in the crisis in Ukraine.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.31 Jul 2015, 12:37 PM PST0
John Oliver hammered FIFA for its corruption on his Sunday HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” calling FIFA President Sepp Blatter meeting Russia President Vladimir Putin a “vortex of concentrated evil.” Oliver also used former FIFA Vice President Jeffrey Webb as
by Trent Baker27 Jul 2015, 8:39 AM PST0
A new doctrine issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin pushes for a “strong Russian presence” in the Atlantic even though the massive country does not touch the ocean.
by Mary Chastain26 Jul 2015, 5:44 PM PST0
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest project, Patriot Park, has just opened–an amusement park designed to help boost patriotism as the country’s relations with the West continue to fall.
by Mary Chastain24 Jul 2015, 11:30 AM PST0
An explosion on Turkey’s border with Syria, allegedly executed by ISIS, killed at least 31 people on Monday. “We are concerned that the number of death will increase. The perpetrators will soon be found and put on trial,” Turkey’s interior minister said in a statement.
by Michael Lucchese20 Jul 2015, 9:45 PM PST0
The Russian government has unilaterally moved its nation’s border nearly a mile into Georgian territory through South Ossetia. Not surprisingly, a British Petroleum (BP) oil pipeline is in the region.
by Mary Chastain16 Jul 2015, 10:17 PM PST0
Ukrainian officials fired Levent Aydın, the honorary consul of Ukraine in Turkey, after he appeared at an event in a t-shirt bearing a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
by Mary Chastain15 Jul 2015, 1:25 PM PST0
“Russia was a help on this. I’ll be honest with you. I was not sure given the strong differences we are having with Russia right now around Ukraine, whether this would sustain itself. Putin and the Russian government compartmentalized on this in a way that surprised me,” Obama said in an interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
by Charlie Spiering15 Jul 2015, 6:47 AM PST0
While the Iranians take a victory lap over Obama’s capitulation to their nuclear program, their patrons in Russia are celebrating, too.
by John Hayward14 Jul 2015, 9:59 PM PST0
Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford told the Senate Armed Services committee that Russia is America’s greatest threat to national security. Despite the evidence, Secretary of State John Kerry disagrees.
by Mary Chastain11 Jul 2015, 5:44 PM PST0
