Ukrainians who are eligible for military service should be allowed to leave the country in defiance of an active travel ban – if they can pay several thousand dollars, an Interior Ministry adviser suggested on Monday. Most male Ukrainians aged between 18 and 60 cannot legally travel outside their homeland …
Read More »Biden’s adviser explains US president’s remarks on Russia regime change
US President Joe Biden’s remark that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” reflects a “very emotional, very personal view” rather than a shift in US policy towards ousting the Russian president, one of Biden’s senior advisers said on Monday. On Saturday, during a visit to Warsaw amid Russia’s ongoing offensive …
Read More »Obama adviser pleads guilty to stealing from school
Seth Andrew, a former adviser to 44th President Barack Obama, pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges after stealing $218,000 from a charter school he founded. The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that Andrew had pleaded guilty to transferring the money from the school to his own private bank …
Read More »Former Reagan adviser reveals why she’s getting a Russian passport
Suzanne Massie, who advised the US government in the 1980s, has appeared on RT’s Worlds Apart program, explaining why she’s applying for Russian citizenship and revealing some details about her former boss, Ronald Reagan. Massie, who first visited the USSR in 1960s, had been writing about Russia all her life. …
Read More »Former Ghani adviser reveals Afghan government’s ‘biggest mistake’ in run-up to US withdrawal
“I think not seeing that writing on the wall probably was one of the biggest” mistakes Afghani President Ashraf Ghani could have made as the end of the US occupation approached, former national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib told CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday. “We should have understood that the …
Read More »Boris Johnson adviser tearfully resigns over Christmas party scandal
The prime minister has been grilled by MPs over a leaked video, which shows Stratton laughing at a mock press conference and joking that “this fictional party was a business meeting … and it was not socially distanced.” Stratton was government spokesperson for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.On Wednesday …
Read More »Top Covid-19 adviser assesses if vaccines will work against Omicron
“We’re not going to have a severe epidemic” because of the Omicron strain, Barry Schoub, who heads South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19 vaccines, told Israel’s Channel 12 on Friday. The new wave of infections in the country “is going to be a lot less severe. There’s a lot …
Read More »CNN brings Lincoln Project adviser on as ‘Republican strategist’ to comment on election after stunt against GOP candidate
Carville and Stevens were touted as “Republican and Democratic strategists” by CNN host Chris Cuomo, who said they were “better minds” to discuss whether the neck-and-neck race in Virginia was the first measure for the midterm elections. The pretense of partisan balance, however, was undermined by the fact that Stevens’ …
Read More »Missiles ‘aimed at Moscow’: Adviser to Ukraine’s Zelensky warns Kremlin that war with Kiev would spell ‘end of Russia’ & its army
Speaking to the Dom TV network, Alexey Arestovich warned the Kremlin that his country would soon have the ability to hit the Russian capital with its missiles. Arestovich serves as an adviser to the office of Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky. “Putin will get to the point, in the foreseeable future, …
Read More »Attempt to kill Ukrainian adviser was meant to intimidate government, aide alleges as Kremlin rejects claim of Russian involvement
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday after a group of assailants opened fire on his car, injuring his driver, the first assistant to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Sergey Shefir, said that the incident was designed to spook senior policymakers. “All I can say is that the assassination attempt was carried out …
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