It will be impossible for Kiev to mend its relationship with Moscow so long as the Ukrainian authorities remain under the thumb of the US government, the speaker of Russia’s Senate claimed on Wednesday. Speaking in an interview with Moscow-based outlet Parlamentskaya Gazeta, Valentina Matvienko suggested that, should Ukrainian President …
Read More »German politician compares anti-Russian sanctions to atomic bomb
Cutting Russia off from the international banking payment system SWIFT would have a serious impact on Western economies, according to the incoming leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz. The politician stressed that the suspension of the system for Moscow “would basically break the back of international …
Read More »Politician ripped for ‘humiliating’ wife with snow shovel post
Jon Reyes, a Canadian politician who serves as Manitoba’s minister of economic development, received heavy backlash after he publicly celebrated his wife for shoveling snow following a 12-hour hospital work shift. “Even after a 12 hour night shift at the hospital last night, my wife still has the energy to …
Read More »Meet the Afghan refugee turned Tory politician who came to Britain in the back of a lorry
Darius Nasimi came to Britain huddled inside a refrigerated container and is now a Conservative candidate in next year’s local elections, in the London Borough of Hounslow. What’s striking is that despite being a native Farsi speaker, close your eyes and he sounds a bit like BoJo. Open them and he …
Read More »Polish politician told female colleague to sleep with Ukrainian visitor
Local media reported on Friday that Alicja Szczepańska, a councilor in the southern Polish city of Krakow, was left outraged after the assembly’s deputy chairman, Sławomir Pietrzyk, insinuated that she should “pay for services in kind,” and attempted to push her to jump into bed with a fellow guest at …
Read More »Prominent Greek antivax journo & politician dies of Covid
On Tuesday, the Sotiria Hospital in Athens issued a statement confirming the 72-year-old had lost his battle against Covid-19. He had been admitted 10 days prior, having been diagnosed with coronavirus on November 30. “Today, 14.12.2021, at 03.10, the journalist Giorgos Tragas, head of the Free People movement, died in …
Read More »Australian politician finds surprise culprit behind low Indigenous vaccination rate
“There’s been some misinformation provided to Aboriginal people from people who do not have their best interests at heart,” West Australia Premier Mark McGowan told reporters on Thursday, adding that he had “heard from one Aboriginal person who said white supremacist groups are sending information to Aboriginal people that they …
Read More »The politician who’s used Covid to restrict people’s rights to an unprecedented level strikes again
The pandemic has generated a series of political crises in many Western liberal democracies over the past two years. Leaders who have failed to deal with it effectively have been brutally punished by voters. It was arguably one of the key reasons Donald Trump lost office and, in Australia, Prime …
Read More »‘War zone’: Sweden rocked by two overnight explosions, and politician points to gang-crime
In the early hours of Thursday morning, police in Sweden were called to a residential estate in the town of Varnamo where a man was found severely injured after a reported explosion. He was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries. The explosive charge was so powerful that …
Read More »Rammstein star cancels Russian concert for far-right politician after cops detain producer over reported immigration rule breach
In a message posted on Instagram on Sunday, agricultural tycoon Maksim Larin, a former local deputy for the nationalist Rodina party, said that the show he was bankrolling had been cancelled unilaterally by Lindemann, citing the potential to fall foul of local laws. While the organizers said they had been …
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