Новости за 20.06.2019

The US may be doing everything it can to escalate tensions with Iran, but nobody else seems to care. Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's visit to Iran was recently interrupted by an 'attack' on a Japanese tanker in the Gulf of Oman that Washington tried to pin on Tehran.

There was a time, when the Patriarchate of Constantinople was in its prime… but today, it’s former glory has passed into pale memory, and this schismatic crime which it has championed in Ukraine, has become among the greatest issues for Orthodoxy in the twenty-first century.

No one told rookie troops to shoot cows in Chernobyl and the miners there never worked naked, Major General Nikolai Tarakanov, who headed the real ‘liquidators’ in 1986, has told RT’s documentary channel.

If Russian children born outside of Russia manage to carry one Russian artist’s name into adulthood, preserving it amid the din of cafeterias and Hunger Games, chances are it is the name of Viktor Vasnetsov.

If Russian children born outside of Russia manage to carry one Russian artist’s name into adulthood, preserving it amid the din of cafeterias and Hunger Games, chances are it is the name of Viktor Vasnetsov.

This is great video.

The Russia-gate phenomena beginning in 2016 is merely the tip of the iceberg in a long history of Western fake news corruption, corruption that goes way back to biased portrayals of events like the 2008 war in Georgia.

The Georgia war had a long build- up starting with foreign NGO’s inciting aggressive separatism in Georgia, and using a pretext of fighting against “Russian Imperialism”. Putin acknowledged complex ethnic issues in the Caucasus and welcomed the idea of political compromises... Читать дальше...

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

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The author is the longest serving foreign correspondent covering Russia. He published his fascinating memoirs in December of 2018.

The NYT has reported that US cyberwar unit has placed malware in Russia’s electric grid that could potentially shut it down. It also alleges that Trump has been kept out of the loop on this decision.