Новости за 02.12.2019

The early winter holidays are notorious for giving people the blues, but as the last Thanksgiving leftovers slide into the stockpot, the Democratic Party was put on suicide watch. Is the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein in charge? It’s a little late to call an exorcist. The gun pointed at the Democrats’ head now is a stubby little low-caliber weapon in the person of Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who has only grazed the party’s skull in two previous misfirings. The third time, the old saying goes, may be the charm. Читать дальше...

Forget London and Paris. 

Moscow has been named the world’s leading city destination in 2019 by tourism industry standard the World Travel Awards. 

The Russian capital saw off tough competition from a list including New York, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney, as well as the British and French capitals.   

“Moscow really is the best city in the world!” the Russian capital’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on the VKontakte social network after the awards ceremony in Muscat, Oman.

British [Jewish -ed.] investor Bill Browder has made a name for himself in the West through blaming Moscow for the death of his auditor, Sergey Magnitsky. Der Spiegel has picked apart his story and uncovers it has major credibility problems.

In a recent article entitled “China, Bolivia and Venezuela are proof that social democracy cannot thrive in the global capitalist order” my China-based friend and correspondent 

Tucker Carlson said he didn't care about Ukraine, that if it came to it he'd root for Russia.

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In typical fashion, yet another inexplicably bizarre story emerges of a deal clinched between the United States and its boogeyman “ISIS” (ISIL/Daesh) in which Washington, D.C. received massive amounts of stolen gold in exchange for providing safe passage to the group’s members in Syria.