Launching as Russia Today in December 2005, RT has enjoyed a special place in the heart of the Western establishment ever since. Never an MSM darling, we’ve been accused of election meddling by American spies and dubbed an agency of “influence and propaganda” by French President Emmanuel Macron. After a …
Read More »Merkel defends Germany’s coronavirus response, says it’s not ‘dictatorship’-styled as in other countries
Speaking at theBundestag on Wednesday, the chancellor lauded her flexible approach to the coronavirus crisis. Facing the second wave of the pandemic, the country has rolled out the so-called “lockdown lite” avoiding a complete shutdown. “Our political action is different from what they do in countries that are more like …
Read More »If Macron, Merkel and Trump can all call out Islamist terror for what it is, why can’t Boris Johnson?
The UK’s terrorist threat level has been raised from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’. This means a terrorist attack is considered highly likely, although there is no specific intelligence of an imminent incident. Home Secretary Priti Patel now wants us “to be alert but not alarmed.” Barely a month goes by without …
Read More »‘Islamist terrorism is our common enemy’: Germany’s Merkel expresses support to Austrians after Vienna attack
“We, Germans, stand by our Austrian friends in sympathy and solidarity,” Merkel said in a statement on Tuesday. She expressed her condolences to families of the victims and wished survivors a swift recovery. Merkel said her thoughts were with the common people and security forces, who are confronting the terrorist …
Read More »Lukashenko claims Merkel’s remarks on Navalny ‘poisoning’ were fabricated, cites Berlin-Warsaw phone call ‘intercepted’ by Minsk
“We have intercepted an interesting conversation, which… clearly indicates that this is falsification. There was no poisoning of Navalny,” the president of Belarus told Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, during his visit to Minsk. Lukashenko claimed the motivation was to prevent Moscow from interfering in his country. “They did it to discourage …
Read More »Germany’s Merkel claims someone wanted to ‘silence’ Navalny, but spokesman says ‘poisoning’ revelation won’t affect Nord Stream 2
Merkel was referring to tests carried out the by the Bundeswehr [German military] which found that the anti-corruption campaigner was “beyond doubt” poisoned with a ‘Novichok’ class chemical agent. Describing Navalny as “the leading opposition politician in Russia,” an assertion not borne out by Russian polling, she said somebody wanted …
Read More »Merkel reveals she has no regrets over 2015 migrant influx, claims she would let 1 million into Germany again
Merkel was asked about the policy during her annual summer press conference in Berlin on Friday. “When people are standing at the German-Austrian border or the Hungarian-Austrian border, they have to be treated like human beings,” the German leader told journalists. The politician added that European nations will face similar …
Read More »Germany’s Merkel calls on Russia to investigate how Navalny was allegedly poisoned & hold perpetrators accountable
The unprecedented statement, signed by Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, called on Russian authorities to conduct a “transparent and comprehensive” investigation into the circumstances around the anti-corruption campaigner’s illness. “According to a statement from the team of doctors at Charite, data from clinical studies indicates that Alexey …
Read More »‘Merkel’s guest,’ army ambulances & ‘deliberate’ disinformation at airport: new details of Navalny’s arrival in Germany revealed
The motorcade carrying Navalny, whom Bild newspaper described as “the patient the world is watching,” included several emergency vehicles, police buses and patrol cars. The activist, who remained in a medically induced coma during the journey, was transported to Berlin’s renowned Charite hospital inside a Bundeswehr intensive care ambulance truck. …
Read More »Trump has called Merkel “foolish”: the media learned about the controversial negotiations
The American leader boasted Kim Jong Ynu his genius, and in the talks with Erdogan and Putin rejoiced in the failures of his predecessors on a post of the President of the United States. American media have learned about the scandalous telephone conversations of the President of the USA of …
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