The Italian municipality of San Leo, in the northeastern region of Emilia-Romagna, might look like the perfect place for a visitor tired of crowded cities. Beautiful landscapes, narrow ancient streets, a historic castle where mysterious magician Count Cagliostro spent his last days, plus traditional Italian hospitality – these were the …
Read More »AfD’s Gunnar Beck: ‘Germany was a small ‘c’ conservative society until Merkel transformed it into this cultural Marxist nightmare’
News that the German intelligence services now have the legal green light to monitor phones of the populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party members and to spy on their activities has failed to derail the party’s political ambitions for this year’s elections. Speaking exclusively to RT, senior AfD member and …
Read More »‘The war continues’: Small investors up in arms after GameStop stock trades halted amid price surge & reports of Reddit outages
$GME was up by nearly 104 percent when trading stopped on Wednesday, more than doubling its value over the last 24 hours, but the surge was stopped in its tracks by a trading halt imposed some 15 minutes before markets closed. Observers online noted that while halts are typically short-lived …
Read More »An actual university course aims to revive the art of chit-chat. Good luck making small talk with the perpetually offended, though
Some people can talk. I mean, they can really, really talk. For hours and hours. About absolutely nothing. My mother, for example, can talk pretty much anyone under the table. She is the chit-chat champion of the known universe. You’d realise she was in a totally different chit-chat stratosphere, for …
Read More »Small-scale protests in Russia’s Far East & larger gatherings in Siberia begin day of pro-Alexey Navalny demonstrations (VIDEOS)
Dozens of protesters defied not only the authorities but also local representatives of Navalny’s own team, who said they were endangering themselves by gathering on the ice. Off the coast, the demonstrators walked in circles, in a manner resembling traditional Russian folk dancing, and chanted slogans. © Sputnik / Vitaly Ankov …
Read More »‘Republicans in name only’: Trump blasts small cohort of congressional GOPers who said Biden won election
The Washington Post surveyed the 249 Republicans in the House and Senate and reported on Saturday that only 25 responded saying Biden had won the presidential election; the report was later updated to 26 after Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) referred to “President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris” in …
Read More »‘With a margin that small, there will be a recount’ in Georgia, local Secretary of State announces, as presidential race tightens
“As we are closing in on a final count, we can begin to look to our next steps,” Raffensperger told reporters on Friday. “With a margin that small, there will be a recount in Georgia.” Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump in Georgia by just over 1,000 votes on …
Read More »Lukashenko says US behind Belarus protests, exploiting small newly emerged class of ‘young bourgeois’ who ‘want power’
Alexander Lukashenko, who has been under pressure since a disputed election last month, told Russian journalists on Tuesday that the alleged US interference is effectively a dry-run for a future attempt to destabilize Russia. The president officially won 80 percent of the vote in the August poll, but the opposition …
Read More »About small pearls and liquid soup
Media: the Head of the Ministry of sports of Russia Oleg Matytsin said that Golf should be accessible for all Russians. One night the Minister of sports Oleg Matytsin saw in a dream the French Queen Marie Antoinette. The Queen appeared before him as was after the execution by the …
Read More »Figure of the day: 56% of small and medium business in Russia do not work
Meanwhile, the state still has no entrepreneurs no significant assistance Depressing figures cited in his blog, economist Yakov Mirkin. At the end of April were summed up the results of the monitoring “the Opinion of small and medium businesses about government support measures during the outbreak of coronavirus,” conducted in …
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