By Jonny Tickle – RT – January 21, 2021 MPs from Germany’s left-wing Die Linke party have accused the country’s government of acting suspiciously after it refused to answer most of their questions about legal assistance requested by Russia over the Navalny case. In recent months, on multiple occasions, the Kremlin has demanded information from […]
RT | January 21, 2021 An EU parliament resolution, backed by 581 MEPs out of 675 present, directs members to ramp up sanctions against Russia to stop the Nord Stream 2 project “once and for all,” linking it to opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s arrest. The EU member states should take “an active stance” on Navalny’s […]
Paul Antonopoulos | January 18, 2021 The visit of Moldovan President Maia Sandu to Ukraine last week is the first interaction between the two neighboring countries at the highest level in recent years. For Sandu, this trip became her foreign policy premiere since she became president on December 24, 2020. We could observe in her […]
RT | January 11, 2021 [Proclaimed] President-elect Joe Biden has nominated career diplomat William Burns to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming that Americans will “sleep soundly” with Burns at the helm of the shadowy intel service. Burns, who is currently president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international affairs […]
RT | January 11, 2021 The move by US Tech companies to censor US President Donald Trump has raised concern in Russia, with politicians and IT industry figures expressing concerns about it, and about its potential implications for political freedoms. Alexey Pushkov, a prominent Senator and Chairman of the Federation Council on Information Policy and […]
CrowdStrike founder Dmitri Alperovitch (center) at the US-NATO Atlantic Council, 2014 (AC) Swiss Policy Research | December 2020 To professional analysts, it has long been clear that the “Russiagate” saga – including the “Russian hacking” claims, the Trump-Russia collusion claims, as well as the “Skripal poisoning incident” and the more recent “Navalny poisoning incident” – […]
RT | January 4, 2021 Internet security firm FireEye has revealed the enormous SolarWinds hack that left upwards of 250 agencies and businesses unprotected for weeks was launched from inside the US – but that hasn’t stopped them from blaming Moscow. The mega-hack, which affected 250 networks including US government agencies, went undetected by Washington’s […]
By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | January 2, 2021 Russia’s federal prison authorities were right to jolt Alexei Navalny this week by warning him to return immediately from Germany or else face a suspended sentence being made into jail time. The “professional” opposition activist claims to be convalescing in Germany after he was […]
RT | December 28, 2020 The omnibus spending bill US President Donald Trump eventually agreed to sign gives Americans a pittance, but over $600 million to “counter the influence” of Russia and China and “promote democracy” in Europe and Asia. The 5,593-page legislation bundled the coronavirus “stimulus” with general 2021 spending. It faced heavy criticism […]
RT | December 27, 2020 Moscow is set for a showdown with Western judges and 1990s Russian oligarchs, over a new ruling enabling the country to refuse to pay what is considered to be the biggest legal settlement in history, over a collapsed oil empire. The Constitutional Court, one of Russia’s highest judicial authorities, ruled […]
