Russia
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Russia has key role to play in Iran issue
In what must be one of his sharpest rhetorical outbursts against the Trump administration, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Saturday of “savagery” for inflicting $150 billion of damage on Iran due to sanctions. Continue reading
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The Unexpected Poisoning and the Unsuspecting Victims
When the BBC’s “Salisbury Poisonings” went to air in the UK, it seemed inevitable that it would be screened in Australia, giving us at least a chance to prepare for this new propaganda onslaught. But just as it was “unclear” why the BBC had chosen to screen it in June, or for that matter to… Continue reading
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The Sino-Russian Alliance Comes of Age — Part 3
The disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991 was a geopolitical disaster for Russia. But the watershed event, paradoxically, prompted Moscow and Beijing, erstwhile adversaries, to draw closer together, as they watched with disbelief the United States’ triumphalist narrative of the end of the Cold War, overturning the order they both had regarded, despite… Continue reading
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A Ukrainian/CIA Plot To Incite Belarus Against Russia Unraveled – The NYT Story Thereof Is Hiding The Failure
Just yesterday we flogged the false and misleading reports in the New York Times about Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine. Today a different New York Times report by Ivan Nechepurenko, who is also with its bureau in Moscow, proves to be of similar shoddy quality: Continue reading
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NYT First Reinforces, Then Silently Debunks Its False Claims About Russia’s Covid-19 Vaccine
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/09/nyt-first-reinforces-then-silently-debunks-its-false-claims-about-russias-covid-19-vaccine.html Continue reading
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Alexei Navalny News Links 23 August – 18 September 2020
18 September 2020 — The New Dark Age German cabinet spokesman reiterates call on Russia for clarifications on Navalny incident Novichok in Navalny’s Water Bottle? Novichok Allegedly Discovered On Water Bottle In Navalny’s Room, But It Traveled With Him To Germany Continue reading
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The Novichoks story: chemical weapons programme or canary trap?
The poisoning incidents in Salisbury, England in 2018 with an unusual organophosphate compound designated A-234 gave rise to wide coverage of the story that a novel class of nerve agents named “Novichoks” had been discovered in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and that development of these agents as weapons had continued in Russia in… Continue reading
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The Sino-Russian Alliance Comes of Age — Part 2
The Russian diplomacy, which has a glorious tradition in modern history, does not make its moves accidentally or impulsively. The historical consciousness is intense. Memories from the past and the present lie deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled in the collective consciousness. A little-noticed fact remains to be that the Russian-Chinese statement of September 11 was released… Continue reading
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The Sino-Russian Alliance Comes of age — Part 1
The joint statements between two countries are usually riveted on a particular event but in extraordinary circumstances involving great powers, it could assume an epochal character and can be viewed as diplomatic communication that reflects what the Germans call the zeitgeist — the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history — and… Continue reading
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Russia blasts US’ Indo-Pacific strategy
The meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow on September 11 took place at a particularly delicate juncture in regional politics. Russia is carefully ploughing a neutral line in the India-China standoff while also drawing closer to China to push back at US pressure. Continue reading
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A Truly Poisonous Foreign Policy: A Ridiculous Proposal from The New York Times
If one had been reading America’s leading newspapers and magazines over the past several weeks the series of featured stories suggesting that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is some kind of latter day Lucrezia Borgia would have been impossible to avoid. Putin, who was simultaneously being branded as some kind of totalitarian monster, apparently does not… Continue reading
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From 9/11 to the Great Reset. From Al Qaeda to Covid The Virus…
11 September 2020 — Asia Times Davos types issue a new ‘with us or against us’ ultimatum eerily reminiscent of the old 9/11 world By Pepe Escobar This article was originally published on Asia Times. 9/11 was the foundation stone of the new millennium – ever as much indecipherable as the Mysteries of Eleusis. A year… Continue reading
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Navalny Novichok Poisoning: The (Very Unlikely) Story So Far
For those of you who haven’t been following the news – Russian politician (or “opposition figure”, as he is universally referred to in the Western press) Alexei Navalny was taken ill two weeks ago. It is now being reported he was “poisoned” with “novichok”. Continue reading
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Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense
Once Navalny was in Berlin it was only a matter of time before it was declared that he was poisoned with Novichok. The Russophobes are delighted. This of course eliminates all vestiges of doubt about what happened to the Skripals, and proves that Russia must be isolated and sanctioned to death and we must spend… Continue reading
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Navalny Gets Skripaled
Yawn! was my first reaction when I read this. Couldn’t they come up with a more believable fairy tale? The German government says tests performed on samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny showed the presence of the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. Continue reading
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HBO’s ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ is latest anti-Russian Cold War propaganda
In 2017, explosive allegations first emerged that the authorities of the Chechen Republic were reportedly interning gay men in concentration camps. After a three year period of dormancy, the accusations have resurfaced in a new feature-length documentary by HBO Films entitled Welcome to Chechnya. Continue reading
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Anatomy of coup attempt in Belarus
The Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed in a TV interview on August 27 that the Americans, amongst others, had fuelled the unrest in Belarus. He explained that the controversial presence of 33 Russian nationals (with military background) in Minsk in the run-up to the presidential election in Belarus on August 8, which briefly created misunderstanding… Continue reading
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US Sanctions Russian Research Institute that Developed COVID-19 Vaccine
Russia won the race to develop the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus. The United States has responded by slapping sanctions on a Russian research facility involved in creating it. Continue reading
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Belarus News Links 24-29 August 2020
29 August 2020 — The New Dark Age The Emergence of the Technetronic Society of Humankind https://journal-neo.org/2020/08/28/the-emergence-of-the-technetronic-society-of-humankind/ Belarus: NATO Lobby Acknowledges That Its Color Revolution Failed https://popularresistance.org/belarus-nato-lobby-acknowledges-that-its-color-revolution-failed/ Continue reading
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Definitive Eurasian Alliance Is Closer than You Think
We have seen how China is meticulously planning all its crucial geopolitical and geoeconomic moves all the way to 2030 and beyond. What you are about to read next comes from a series of private, multilateral discussions among intel analysts, and may helpfully design the contours of the Big Picture. Continue reading
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