“The European Union does not recognise the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by the Russian Federation and therefore does not recognise the holding of elections in the Crimean peninsula. The OSCE/ODIHR observers did not conduct any activities in these illegally-annexed territories, participation of EU Member States’ diplomats in observation activities within the framework of…
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OSCE: Russians had no real choice
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said there had been no real choice in presidential election of Russian Federation and complained it had been marked by unfair pressure on critical voices. BREAKING: OSCE observers: Russia's presidential election conducted openly but in an 'overly controlled' environment. — The Associated Press (@AP) March 19, 2018…
Putin leads with 73% of votes
According to partial results made public by the electoral commission the incumbent President Vladimir Putin is leading with 73% of votes: First-time Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin is running second with 15 percent, while veteran nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who first ran against Boris Yeltsin in 1991, rounds out the top three with about seven percent….
Russian double agent poisoning in scope
President Vladimir Putin offered to present his explanations to the UK how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used in an offensive against a former Russian double agent who sold secrets to British intelligence. (Image: Sergei Skripal) Prime Minister Theresa May said it was “highly likely” Moscow is behind the after British officials…
Russians were “too naive”…
Dr Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann OPINION The philosopher Schopenhauer’s Three Stages of Truth: “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Declassified cables examined by academics from Georges Washington University (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early) proves that Western leaders gave multiple assurances to Soviet Union that NATO…
NATO perceives Kremlin arms show as “counterproductive”
President Vladimir Putin‘s warnings to NATO allies are “unacceptable”, they do not help efforts to resolve tensions, the Alliance made clear a day after the President Putin publicly demonstrated a new generation of nuclear weapons. #Russia’s threats to target #NATO allies are unacceptable and counterproductive. Read my statement in @Reuters via @rdfemmott: https://t.co/Qf46L2ZMSn — Oana…
Macron-Merkel demand Putin to open humanitarian access to Ghouta
Damascus’ hospital (pictured) came under a rocket attack carried out by militants from Eastern Ghouta (Damascus’ suburb) on Friday, Syrian SANA news agency reports. Militants fired a rocket at the hospital in Baghdad Street from Eastern Ghouta seriously damaging the intensive care unit. There were no immediate reports about casualties. On Friday morning (23/02/2018), one…
Browder: “Putin is so mad at me”
Tverskoi Court in Moscow has sentenced UK Hermitage Capital founder William Browder in absentia to nine years in jail, declaring him guilty of deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion worth over three billion rubles, according to TASS news agency. Russia preparing repeated request for Browder’s international search and extradition https://t.co/6Oca8Bok12© Drew Angerer/Getty Images pic.twitter.com/3ybWvp827x — TASS…
Putin admits “terrorist act” in Saint-Petersburg
Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted the obvious: a blast of a ‘needle bomb’ in St. Petersburg on Wednesday evening in a supermarket is a “terrorist act”. The head of state ordered Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to act within the law when detaining criminals, but in the situation of a threat to the lives of…
Vučić victim to charlatans of Russian defence industry
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has fallen victim to charlatans drowning a life Teckel dog during his visit to Centre of perspective research of Russian defence industries. Guided by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Serbian guest was confronted with a demonstration, claiming a scientific breakthrough of Russian researches. While forcefully drowning the Teckel in a glass tank, a…
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