Новости за 26.04.2019

The music is Rachmaninoff's 'All Night Vigil' (Vespers).

Powerful stuff.

The Reuters news agency has published a retraction of an “exclusive” report on operations between the Venezuelan and Russian state oil companies, PDVSA and Rosneft, after disavowing the US-supplied source. Reuters has also acted after Rosneft applied for a criminal investigation of the media company’s operations in Russia by Moscow prosecutors.

The band is playing 'Katyusha', a WW2 favorite.

The Kremlin believes that it would be premature for President Vladimir Putin to send congratulatory messages to Volodymyr Zelenskiy on winning the presidential election in Ukraine or to talk about opportunities for collaboration.

The summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and President Vladimir Putin was significant on various levels and reaffirms the onset of a multipolar world.

The current favourite anti-Russian Orthodox slander of the US-controlled Western media (obviously, this includes the State-run BBC locally) is that the Russian Orthodox Church is the lackey of the Russian government, notably of President Putin. Here they love to misquote the words of Patriarch Kyrill, that President Putin as a leader is a miracle.

The Washington Examiner reports that a redacted portion of the Mueller report mentions a claim that Russia recorded President Bill Clinton having phone sex from Air Force One with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. 

Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site by a former deputy editor of ours crucial to RI between 2014 and 2019. Best news and commentary ranging from Russia, to China, to Imperial adventures in the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and with an anti-Empire bent.

Maria Butina is in jail for doing nothing while Jared Kushner, who needed a godfathered security clearance due to his close Israeli ties, struts through the White House as senior advisor to the president.

The summit between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un is over. And their message was clear.

The summit between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un is over. And their message was clear.

The countries of the former Soviet Union continue to have among the highest abortion rates in the world. Abortion is legal in Russia as an elective procedure up to the 12th week of pregnancy, and in 2017, there were 780,000 abortions officially recorded, for a population of 145 million.