The degradation of media freedoms in the three Baltic states is “concerning,” the Russian ministry said on Wednesday in a statement marking the day when Russia celebrates journalism. Latvia last December arrested seven journalists working for two Russia-linked outlets. They were accused of violating EU sanctions against Dmitry Kiselyov, who …
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“What the Americans witnessed [on Wednesday] was a small result of the crimes that Donald Trump committed during his four years of presidency in Syria, Iraq and Yemen,” Nasrallah said in a TV appearance, also recalling the assassination of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike …
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Speaking on Thursday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took a swipe at the democracies of the West, adding that future American leaders should learn from what happened on Wednesday when violent protests on Capitol Hill saw four people die. “What we saw in the United States… shows above all how fragile …
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January 6, 2021 was supposed to be a day of constitutionally mandated ceremony, where the vice president of the United States presided over a joint session of Congress to officially count and certify the votes of the Electoral College that would officially designate the winner of the November 2020 US …
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“If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side our democracy would enter a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept the election again,” McConnell said on Wednesday on the Senate floor as Congress began their process for certifying the Electoral College votes. Not long …
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Scenes from the US Capitol on Wednesday, as protesters backing President Donald Trump disrupted the joint session of Congress meeting to certify the election of Democrat Joe Biden, looked very much like Belgrade in October 2000. The sight was later repeated in Ukraine – twice, in 2004 and 2014 – …
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“Shocking scenes in Washington, DC. The outcome of this democratic election must be respected,” Stoltenberg tweeted on Wednesday, as videos of protesters breaching the chambers of Congress and disrupting the joint session that was supposed to certify the 2020 election for Biden traveled around the world. “Disgraceful scenes in US …
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Donald Trump is an authoritarian menace who has played to and preyed upon the United States’ worst, most hateful and paranoid instincts, in a farcical yet nonetheless dangerous effort to establish an autocratic state with him as the cult-style Dear Leader. Predictably enough, he has spent the last seven weeks …
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The observation, which the Obama-era diplomat shared with his Twitter followers on Friday, provoked an avalanche of critical responses. McFaul later even said he was surprised that his “analytical statement” that simply rehashed a theory that democracies generally get on together well was taken as a policy suggestion to Tehran. …
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As Moscow’s malignant media machine turns 15, its danger to our democracy and cherished values of conformity and cancel culture has never been greater! Beware of the RT Bear, as the posters in our appropriately produced civil defense video caution all proper-thinking people. Know your enemy: RT’s editor-in-chief is standing …
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