SPIEF

Western media would have you believe that Russia is an underdeveloped nation with a wretched standard of living. They advance the perception that it is a country that has never recovered from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
They would also want you to believe that Russia is suffering under the heavy burden of Western imposed sanctions that have brought Russia to her knees as a result of isolation, which couldn’t be further from reality.

The Duran’s Peter Lavelle discusses what he saw at this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the Western media’s panicked response to Vladimir Putin’s interview with Megyn Kelly.
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The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (“SPIEF”) which Russia holds every year in early summer in St.Petersburg invariably highlights Russia’s relations with one particular country.  This year that country was India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended SPIEF at the head of a strong Indian delegation.  He had a bilateral meeting with Russian President Putin, and together with Putin attended SPIEF’s plenary session.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was once again the voice of reason and calm in a sea of liberal left hysteria.
Yes the hysteria is once again tied to Trump, but adding even more freak out power to the already triggered liberal left, is Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement and send planet earth hurdling towards its end.
The religion of climate change was dealt a serious blow yesterday through Trump’s neo-liberal heresy.

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