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In a tirade against Russia based news outlets RT and Sputnik, Donald Trump’s CIA Director Mike Pompeo blasted Russia for interfering not only in the 2016 US Presidential election but “the one before that and the one before that”. This would imply that Russia helped install Barack Obama in the White House even after his severely anti-Russian foreign policy became well known.
These statements are blasted by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the following way,

(ANTIMEDIA) Moscow — Russia’s state-funded news network, RT, is apparently now sponsoring ads in a Moscow airport targeting Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. Images of the signs, posted on Reddit over the weekend, come as the mainstream media continues to push the notion that Russia intervened in t

Russia and China continue to forge ever closer bonds across many fields of interaction.
Here are some important recent developments that underlie what has become the world’s most important multifaceted bilateral partnership.
1. Gold 
During Chinese President Xi Jingping’s recent visit to Moscow where he brought with him scores of representatives from the business and government sector, Russia and China agreed to increase bilateral trade in local currency.

David Cicilline, a Democrat congressman from Rhode Island was Tucker Carlson’s latest victim, and once again showed the stupidity of US politicians and the ridiculous nature of the fake news Russian election meddling story.
For David Cicilline, the smoking gun(s) that proves Russia meddled in the US elections are…
1. Russia stole hacked emails
2. Russia using internet bots to spread those emails, and…
3. RT spreading those emails to viewers

RT’s Editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has spoken before Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In an impassioned speech, Simonyan spoke of the dangers of fake news media which she correctly lumped together with western mainstream media as a destabilising force of global mis-information.
She sated,

“We can only tackle this (fake news problem) together. In this case, together and with the help of Chinese media”.

RT has released an exclusive documentary called The Happiest People on Earth, which filmed North Koreans of all ages and social vocations on the eve of The Day of The Sun, the annual celebration of the birthday of North Korea’s founder, the revolutionary leader Kim Il-Sung.
The documentary is unique in that it is neither a provocative hidden camera fly on the wall style documentary, nor is it one that approaches North Korea with any political or ideological agenda.

21st Century Wire says…

RT has produced a new hi-definition 360 degree immersive documentary about the life and times of people and places in North Korea.
The documentary seeks to show both the festivals and daily lives of North Koreans.
The full commentary will be released tomorrow, but RT has released these preview clips that are well worth watching.

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A recent study by the American Center for the Study of Public Opinion has found that Ukrainian media is in the bottom five countries in the world when it comes to being trusted by its own population.
The study found that Mauritania had the least trust in its media followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo and then South Sudan. Tied at fourth place were Gabon and Ukraine.
These results will surprise no one who has studied recent developments in Ukrainian media.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the recently elected French President Emmanuel Macron held their first joint press conference today in Versailles. Macron set the tone by acting in one of the most snide and arrogant manners imaginable. It is fair to say that Macron’s rotten attitude had the effect of making Turkey’s strong-man President Erdogan appear like a master of tact and diplomacy.