Tag: Russia

It was a Mossad agent who said that Netanyahu is full of “shit.”

Indonesia will buy 11 Sukhoi fighter jets worth $1.14 billion from Russia in exchange for cash and Indonesian commodities, two cabinet ministers said on Tuesday.

Russian ambassador to Sudan, Mirgayas Shirinsky, has been found dead at his residence in the capital Khartoum, foreign ministries from both countries have confirmed.

Former Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Antonov will take up responsibilities as ambassador

A former member of the UN Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons in Iraq and Libya, Igor Nikulin, told Russia's Pravda newspaper that Moscow "should look into" the growing number of American military biological laboratories springing up across the Eurasian continent.

The Ukrainian Navy plans to open a NATO doctrine and tactical center before the end of this year, the Navy’s deputy chief of staff for Euro-Atlantic integration, said on Thursday.

Alexei Navalny has reacted to accusations of leadermania. One may say that Mr. Navalny was forced to react after he had faced criticism from blogger Sergei Udaltsov and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

But the war machine will not give up easily. They seemed to have made a pact which says that Russia and Iran must pay.

Beijing hopes that all countries interested in settling the North Korean nuclear issue would carefully examine the joint Russian-Chinese proposal on the issue, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said Monday.

Russia continues buying large quantities of gold. In July, Russia's Central Bank purchased 9.1 tons of gold. According to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, because of new US sanctions, Russia is forced to start developing a system, within which the dollar will not be needed.

Jim W. Dean - The last month has seen a shift in the progress of the war that even the most stalwart anti-Assad powers, like the Saudis, can no longer deny. Putin just signed the formal Russian legislative papers on the 50-year rights to its current bases in Syria

In recent months, as Brussels EU policies become more onerous, Hungary, Czech Republic and Bulgaria have turned their sights eastward to Russia and China and their growing infrastructure investments, while Russia has emerged as the world leader in export of nuclear technology, with over 60% of the global market.

Washington continues to misread Moscow, Russian economist Ivan Danilov writes for RIA Novosti. Instead of "bending to the will" of US policymakers, the Russian leadership clearly signals to Washington that it perceives the White House's assertiveness not as a sign of strength but as a sign of weakness.

Jim W. Dean - Congress has thrown down the gauntlet that it wants war with Russia. By that I mean an economic war in wanting to block its emerging economy, especially energy exports to Europe.

When Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States we clung to fragile hope. We hoped he could morph from the wild, aggressive and boorish candidate into a moderately good president.

Obviously the warmongers lost the war in Syria miserably and pathetically, and now they vow to make Russia pay for their loss.

The US military is shifting towards a “more global” exercise program in preparation to deter what they term a “more assertive Russia” as well...

Jim W. Dean - Congress, dragging Trump along, is playing a dangerous game of chicken with Iran, Russia, and the EU, which has finally seemed to have awakened from its slumber of being used as a doormat by the US, on top of its own self-inflicted wounds.

Russia and Turkey have coordinated nearly all details for the shipment of S-400 air defence systems to Ankara, press secretary of the President of Turkey, Ibrahim Kalyn, said in an interview with a Turkish television channel.

Jonas Alexis - The US still wants to play the cat-and-mouse game when it comes to placing more sanctions on Russia. US officials continue to live in a fantasy world and espouse the proverbial belief that Russia is the worst enemy of the United States.

Kazakhstan and the US have recently renewed an agreement on military cooperation. Outlining the details of this cooperation, Russian experts consider the impact it will have on Moscow-Astana ties. Specifically, while some are concerned about the prospects of a US naval base in the Caspian Sea, others explain why this is a technical impossibility.

Jim W. Dean - Multiple sanctions on multiple countries should never be lumped into one bill like this. With Russia in it alone, Trump might have sustained a veto; and the ambushers and Russophobes knew this.

The US Senate has deliberately put off the hearing on the appointment of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman as new Ambassador to Russia, some Russian diplomatic sources told Izvestia.

Special Operations Command chief Army General Raymond Thomas: "We're a bad day away from the Russians saying, 'Why are you still in Syria, U.S.?’ If the Russians play that card, we could want to stay and have no ability to do it.”

Russian military and political presence in Iraq would bring balance to the whole Middle Eastern and North African region, Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi vice-president, said during his visit to Moscow.

China’s decision to join Russia for joint naval exercises in the Baltic Sea, a first to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), may be linked to a military strategy pioneered by a famous Chinese marshal during World War II, experts told Sputnik.

A US special operations commander has admitted that an extended US stay in Syria runs contrary to international law and that Russia would be entirely justified in questioning its presence there.

As Trump attempts to push through what may be a very debilitating budget for average Americans, we seem to be living in a right-wing dictatorship in the US, one where the far-Right are trying to eliminate participation of the left and the majority of citizens they represent.

Phil Butler - Vladimir Putin acts in Russia’s behalf, and exactly in the manner western neocons and Cold War psychopaths know he must. What kind of journalist or historic idiot ignores this crystal-clear nugget?

“Putin has become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism. That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that’s true even here.”

Jim W. Dean - We have had an undeclared World War of sorts being carried out against Syria with even the UN hesitant to face up to it, mainly because it is a major violation of the UN charter and international law, making them look like a joke.

“Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Russian Federation,” the White House said in a press release on Tuesday.

Paul Begala: "We should be debating how many sanctions we should place on Russia or whether we should blow up the KGB, GSU, or GRU [Russia’s foreign intelligence agency]."

Macron: “I do not require Assad’s departure, that’s no longer a prerequisite for France. For seven years, we did not have an embassy in Damascus - and still we have no solution.”

I’ve always told people that if they want to be entertained a little, then they ought to grab some munchies and some nice orange or mango juice, sit down, and just listen to a number of New World Order agents on TV.

On Friday, July 7, Jordan, Russia and the U.S. agreed upon the de-escalation zones in Deraa, Quneitra and Suweida provinces in southwest Syria. The truce came into effect on July 9, noon Damascus time.

What we are seeing here is that Russophobia is everywhere, but true Americans aren’t really buying it. Russophobia is truly fake news.

Israel would love to see American troops in southern Syria because US troops are Israel’s puppets. As Henry Kissinger himself said: “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”

The claim that Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union is categorically false. Even the so-called “Ukraine crisis,” as John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago shows, is largely “the West’s fault.”

Jim W. Dean - I must admit I was teased a bit with yesterday's reporting that Israel was on board the south Syria ceasefire. It made practical sense in that, if the others complied and Israel continued on with its usual "we will attack anywhere, any time, for any reason we choose" foreign policy, it would make them look like fools.