The European Union could suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union and disappear from the map before Ukraine becomes a member, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested on Sunday. Medvedev, who is the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, compared the “promises” Brussels has made to Ukraine to the …
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The US has nothing to gain from a nuclear-armed Ukraine, and should work to bring the conflict there to a “speedy close,” Doug Bandow, a former assistant to President Ronald Reagan, wrote on Thursday. His warning came after a Polish MEP suggested the West should give Kiev nuclear weapons. Radoslaw …
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Petro Poroshenko has admitted that the 2015 ceasefire in Donbass, which he negotiated with Russia, France and Germany as president of Ukraine, was merely a distraction intended to buy time for Kiev to rebuild its military. He made the comments in interviews with several news outlets this week, including Germany’s …
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Retired Russian intelligence officer Lev Sotskov has been found dead at his Moscow apartment, authorities said on Wednesday. Police say that initial information suggests the 90-year old retired major-general used a pistol he’d received as a gift from Mongolian colleagues to commit suicide. Sotskov’s body was discovered by his wife …
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Australia needs to limit gas exports to ease the energy crisis in the country’s eastern states, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told ABC TV on Monday. “They should make sure whatever gas we need is available here… We have a crisis at the moment… they [the government] should be decisive …
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A number of former McDonald’s restaurants reopened in Russia with new branding and ownership on Sunday – the as Russia Day was celebrated across the country. The iconic golden arches logo of McDonald’s has been taken down at restaurants across the country, and the sites have reopened as ‘Vkusno i Tochka’, …
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Ukraine won’t be able to win against Russia, and the US must persuade Kiev to negotiate with Moscow to end the conflict, Hugh De Santis, who oversaw NATO and arms control policy planning in the Reagan administration, has insisted. Defeating the Russian forces on the battlefield and restoring Ukraine’s territorial …
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Donald Trump’s former economic adviser Peter Navarro was indicted on Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the investigation into the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Each count is punishable by up to one year in jail, as well as …
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Khabib Nurmagomedov might be a retired fighter nowadays but that certainly hasn’t stopped him from dominating in the training room. The former UFC lightweight champion confirmed his retirement from mixed martial arts in early 2021, several months after first stating that he was stepping away from the sport following a …
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Hans-Georg Maassen, who from 2012-18 was president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic security agency, has warned that the country is “sleepwalking” into a direct military confrontation with Russia by delivering weapons to Ukraine. Appearing on TV Berlin’s ‘Special’ program last Wednesday, Maassen said …
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