Новости за 17.07.2019

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

It’s not news that China and Russia have been buying gold by the hundreds of tonnes. It’s not news that Russia divested itself of most of its U.S. Treasury holdings last year in response to Donald Trump’s sanctions on Rusal, upsetting the global Aluminum market.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ridiculed green energy during a speech in Sverdlovsk, Russia’s dirtiest region, asking if anyone cares about the worms and birds that are killed by wind turbines.

Field-Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891 ~ 1944) was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, the career serviceman served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht (Defense Force) of the Third Reich during World War II, as well as earlier serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany (1871 ~ 1918).

The British government appears to be more and more aping a Monty Python-type farce with each passing day. Soon the absurd ensemble will be complete if either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt becomes the next prime minister.

Alright, so we have been tracking with CNN’s ratings decline over the last several months, and it really is bad, I mean there is just no way around it. Their numbers for Q2 of this year were some of the worst ever. They fell to just over half a million viewers total, TOTAL. They struggled even more during the ALL IMPORTANT primetime hours of 8 to 11 pm eastern time. They finished in an embarrassing 15th place in terms of the most-watched networks on basic cable. They finished behind channels like TLC, Discovery and the Hallmark Channel. Читать дальше...

The head of Russia’s upper house of parliament says that allowing homosexual couples to adopt children would lead to the extinction of humanity.