A diplomatic scandal rocked Russian-Czech relations this weekend just before a scheduled visit to Moscow by Czech Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek. Prague expelled 18 Russian diplomats and accused Moscow of sending intelligence agents to blow up a munitions depot a few years ago. The news would have been received with …
Read More »Russians’ lack of sympathy for Navalny may be partly down to constant lies about the country from West’s media & political classes
Imprisoned Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny has been making news again this week, claiming that he has been denied proper medical treatment. On Wednesday, Amnesty International said that the Russian authorities “may be placing him into a situation of a slow death and seeking to hide what is happening to …
Read More »Despite roll-out, Russians ‘in no hurry’ to receive Covid-19 vaccines as suspicion is a ‘national characteristic,’ Kremlin claims
Speaking to Moscow-based newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, admitted that distrust in domestically-produced vaccines is still hampering immunization efforts. “In terms of why people are in no hurry to get vaccinated, it seems to me that this is one of our national characteristics,” the …
Read More »In 13 years, number of Russians who consider their country to be European has dropped by almost half, survey reveals
That’s according to a new poll from the Levada Center, a Moscow-based pollster and registered foreign agent. The survey revealed that the number of Russians who believe the nation to be European has almost halved in less than a decade and a half, with just 28% of Russians now considering …
Read More »‘Russians are pretty good scientists’: EU internal market chief says he has ‘no reason’ to doubt Sputnik V vaccine
Breton was asked at Wednesday’s press briefing in Brussels whether the EU should add Sputnik V to its vaccine list in order to make sure that the bloc meets its vaccine rollout target. The official replied that the bloc’s current portfolio of four authorized vaccines will “hopefully soon” get increased to five. …
Read More »200,000 Russians have died of Covid-19 since start of pandemic, state agency confirms, as caseload falls & restrictions dropped
Rosstat, the country’s statistical authority, announced on Friday that 37,107 people had died while infected with the coronavirus in January, putting the overall official number of dead at 200,432 and potentially giving the country the third-highest total death toll in the world after the US and Brazil. However, when measured …
Read More »Covid-19 virus didn’t originate naturally but is actually a BIOWEAPON, most Russians believe, according to explosive new poll
The study, conducted by The Levada Centre, was published on Monday and found that more than half of 1,600 participants living in the country aren’t afraid of becoming infected, the highest percentage of people holding such a view since the pandemic began in February. At the same time, despite colossal efforts to …
Read More »The Olbermann ‘stain’: Bigotry against Russians is perfectly fine in ‘woke’ America
The former sportscaster turned MSNBC pundit turned sportscaster turned YouTube “Resistance” activist – that was the name of his online show – has a long history of hyperbole and invective, from calling Republicans Nazis to ranting against “Russian scum” supposedly controlling US President Donald Trump. On Monday, however, he plumbed …
Read More »FIGHT TRAINING clip of kids has journo lamenting Russians are being trained as ‘YOUNG HOCKEY BEASTS’ as Americans play video games
Daily Caller writer David Hookstead posted an article about the viral video on Saturday, showing children in protective hockey gear trading heavy-gloved punches to the helmet as a coach yells instructions. At one point, the coach holds a student by the shirt and throws a slow-motion punch to the facemask …
Read More »Turning away from the West? Three quarters of Russians think well of China – but fewer than half feel positive about US & EU
Researchers asked more than 1,600 people across the country for their views on three of the world’s most powerful geopolitical entities. Conducted by The Levada Center – a political pollster registered by Russia’s Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent because it receives funding from abroad – the study found …
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