Senate Democrats introduced a bill to that would require Trump to impose sanctions on Russian officials or entities that are involved in offering bounties for attacks on US troops to […]
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Russian Special Services Want to Poison Czech Politicians
Three weeks ago, a man with a Russian diplomatic passport arrived at Václav Havel Airport from Russia. Sources claim that the passenger traveled with a briefcase in which he had the […]
Russian media offer 200 euros to Italians if they thank Putin on camera
EUR 200 to thank Russia and Putin for humanitarian assistance on camera for “Russian media.” According to La Repubblica, this is the exact amount of money that is being offered […]
Russia is trying to whitewash its reputation using coronavirus pandemic
A Russian state-owned fund that says it footed half the bill of a coronavirus aid shipment delivered to the U.S. on Wednesday has been on a U.S. Treasury restricted lending […]
Putin prohibits Ukrainians to own their land in Crimea
Six years after illegally invading and annexing Crimea, Russia is to prohibit Ukrainians from owning their own land. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree, dated 20 March 2020, prevents those he […]
Putin is nothing like Western myths about him
Vladimir Putin does like to surprise. Having launched a series of constitutional reforms, he said there should be a hard two-term limit for a president but then conceded that if the […]
Russian billionaire is suing banks for refusing to do business with him
Russian billionaire Boris Rotenberg is suing four Nordic banks for not doing business with him, Bloomberg reports. The oligarch, an associate of President Vladimir Putin, is on the U.S. sanctions […]
Ukraine Peace Talks Get Help From Putin. Crazy, right?
Russia is letting Zelensky lay out “red lines” to convince voters he can compromise without capitulating, writes Leonid Bershidsky for Bloomberg from Moscow. No, he is not actually living in […]
Biology Is the Only Limiting Factor for Putin’s Power
Since Vladimir Putin came to power 20 years ago, Russia has lost its influence in Georgia, the Balkans, and Ukraine. Moscow shut down all of the Russian military bases aboard, […]
Mueller: Russia Had Blackmail on Trump
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed that Russia had blackmail leverage over Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, nymag.com reports. Naturally, to establish that Russia had leverage over Trump is not […]
Israeli historian lets Russian dictator change his chapter on dangers of dictatorship
A section from a book by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari discussing lies told by Russian President Vladimir Putin was omitted from the Russian translation of “21 Lessons for the […]
Daily Beast: Oliver Stone’s New “Documentary” is a Pro-Putin Propaganda
When at the end of June Oliver Stone announced that he would present new documentary, Revealing Ukraine, at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, not many people noticed, writes The Daily Beast. The […]
Ukraine’s envoy to UN: What’s next? USSR revival?
Volodymyr Yelchenko, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, drew parallels between Vladimir Putin’s desire to issue passports to Ukrainians with a novel by George Orwell. Taking to Twitter on […]
Putin says Russia may offer fast-tracked passports to all Ukrainians, not only to those living in Donbas
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia may start granting Russian citizenship, under a simplified procedure, to all Ukrainians, not only to those living in Russia-occupied Donbas, eastern Ukraine. […]
