By Gareth Porter | Consortium News | February 13, 2019 The New York Times and CNN led media coverage last month of discussions among senior FBI officials in May 2017 of a possible national security investigation of President Donald Trump himself, on the premise that he may have acted as an agent of Russia. The episode has potentially […]
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ). ©REUTERS / Yuri Gripas RT February 13, 2019 A group of senators have introduced a bill suggesting a wide range of sanctions against Russia. The bill, sponsored by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) and Democrat Bob Menendez (New Jersey) will target Russia’s banking and energy […]
Sputnik – 13.02.2019 On Tuesday, the Financial Times reported that the United States and the European Union had been negotiating and were close to reaching an agreement on imposing new economic sanctions against Russia after the incident in the Sea of Azov in late November. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Tuesday that the […]
By Finian CUNNINGHAM | Strategic Culture Foundation | 13.02.2019 It was billed politely as a Franco-German “compromise” when the EU balked at adopting a Gas Directive which would have undermined the Nord Stream 2 project with Russia. Nevertheless, diplomatic rhetoric aside, Berlin’s blocking last week of a bid by French President Emmanuel Macron to impose […]
Sputnik – 12.02.2019 MOSCOW – Russian media in Germany are being “persecuted” because their opponents do not have arguments to challenge their positions, Russian Ambassador to Berlin Sergei Nechayev told Sputnik, adding that proponents of such an approach were revealing who they really were. “All those involved in this, to put it mildly, ugly media […]
RT | February 12, 2019 Hackers have released a sixth batch of Integrity Initiative leaks, this time focusing on how the project sought £5.5 million in funding from the British government to establish an influence campaign in the Western Balkans. According to the leaks, Chris Donnelly, who heads the Institute for Statecraft (IfS) — the […]
Sputnik – 12.02.2019 MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday called claims of Russia’s alleged involvement in GPS disruptions during last year’s NATO drills a fantasy, a day after Norway renewed similar allegations concerning signal interference near its border. “I must say that a matter was not looked into because it is impossible […]
By Edward LOZANSKY | Strategic Culture Foundation | 11.02.2019 At this time it looks like 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is definitely doomed. This became absolutely clear when on Feb. 1, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced that the United States would suspend its obligations and intends to withdraw from that treaty in […]
By Kit Klarenberg | Sputnik | 07.02.2019 In the days following the apparent poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal on 4 March 2018, speculation abounded. What substance had rendered the double agent and his daughter comatose? How? Who was responsible? Why? By 7 March, it’d been established the pair were struck by a nerve agent, confirmation […]
Sputnik – 07.02.2019 The EU is to hold a vote on a revision of the Gas Directive that would let the European Commission gain leverage over the Russian-European gas pipeline project. Germany has resisted Brussels’s attempt to revise the regulations and counted on France’s support amid their growing cooperation. One of the EU’s pillars and […]
