If you thought Barack Obama acts too much like an imperialistic president, you better get ready for Hillary. She’s even worked up an impersonation of Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of her portfolio.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk confirmed more Russian forces entered Ukraine on Monday after he spoke with the National Security and Defense Council.
During the Cold War, Red terrorist groups proliferated throughout Western Europe. Claire Sterling detailed in her 1981 blockbuster The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism how, with the help of the Communist Bloc intelligence and their surrogates in the PLO and Cuba, these groups organized a sophisticated network able to provide everything from arranging travel to Cuba and Lebanon for training to guns and fake passports.
Yevgeny Savostyanov, head of Russia’s Coordination Council on Intellectual Property Protection, quit after he witnessed a major crackdown on cultural “matters of public interest” within Russia. He criticized Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky in an open letter before he left.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a treaty with South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, that will effectively annex the region to Russia early next week. The Treaty of Alliance and Integration allows Moscow to control its foreign policy, border, and security.
Belgium police raided ten locations where it was suspected that home-grown jihadists returning from Syria were planning terror acts. One location was in the town of Verviers, where two suspected terrorists were killed after a shootout, and the others were spread across the capital city Brussels, which is also the capital city of the European Union.
Russia is on a long-term holiday that started two weeks ago and ends on Monday, January 12. At that time, the banks and the stock exchange will reopen, and it’s feared that both the ruble and the Moscow stock exchange will fall sharply.
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who has been under house arrest for alleged fraud involving a state lumber company, snipped off his monitoring bracelet with a pair of scissors and has refused to honor the arrest terms.
Russian authorities arrested famous Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny just hours a court gave him a three and a half years suspended sentence on embezzlement charges.
Hollywood director Oliver Stone took to his Facebook page on Tuesday to offer his opinion about the year’s events in Ukraine. Stone pointed the finger at the United Sates government, and the CIA in particular, for the ouster of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
The Russians have a few nicknames for America and her citizens. America is referred as “Pindostan” and the citizens are called “pindoses.”
Friday, President Vladimir Putin approved a new military doctrine that names the United States and NATO as major threats to Russia’s national security. In the first change since the 2010 edition, Russia also stated its right to use nuclear weapons
Ukraine’s new Parliament voted to end all blocks on forming alliances with foreign military. The bill pushes Ukraine closer to a NATO membership, which caused backlash from Russia.
A Moscow court accused Aleksei Navalny, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critics, and his brother Oleg, of stealing $500,000 from two firms. Prosecutors wish to give Aleksei a 10-year prison sentence and Oleg eight years. The accusations
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union with Candy Crowley,” when asked if the recent economic troubles Russian President Putin is dealing with have anything to do with the United States sanctions Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Russia economic troubles
Russian President Vladimir Putin is defending his decision to annex Crimea, and vowing to repair Russia’s economy within two years. “How can they say that it was unjust?” (to take Crimea) Putin asked according to a translator. “Use for example,
European stock markets slid Wednesday after sharp gains the day before, while oil prices drifted to new lows, as investors awaited the outcome of the US Federal Reserve meeting. Oil prices extended their losses to fresh five-and-a-half-year lows, while the
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent early Tuesday in an emergency move to halt a collapse in the rouble as oil prices decline and the country’s sanctions-hit economy slides
Pope Francis has identified what he called “the sins of the media,” narrowing them down to three: “disinformation, slander, and defamation.” Of these, he said, “the most insidious is disinformation,” which he compared to telling half-truths. “Of these three sins–disinformation,
The Kiev State Ballet School has refused to accept money raised by Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre after it emerged the star dancer at a charity gala had supported the annexation of Crimea. At the Bolshoi last Sunday, some of the world’s
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” Time magazine editor Nancy Gibbs announced her magazine’s 2014 “Person of the Year,” the “Ebola fighters,” and what led to that ultimate choice. “This was the worst outbreak in history,” Gibbs said. “And while
Despite evidence that Russian-backed rebels were responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July, Russian media continue to find new culprits to blame for the incident. This time, Russian TV show Moment of Truth and the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper
Time has named Roger Goodell as one of its finalists for “Person of the Year.” The magazine announces its selection on Wednesday. The NFL commissioner managed such crises in the past year as the settlement of the concussion lawsuit against
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will rally the conservative faithful this week at their party congress, which is all but certain to jubilantly re-elect her as their unchallenged party chief. The only real question is whether she will match or even
The Ukrainian Parliament has begun work on a bill that would ban “communist,” “Nazi,” “anti-Ukrainian” ideologies, and the functioning of any communist parties within the state. The bill has been tabled while the government expands other programs to fight Putinist
