At one point, as Biden tried to evade a question from moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would support adding more slots to the Supreme Court and eliminating the Senate filibuster rule if Democrats regain control, Trump badgered him with interruptions. “Whatever position I take on that, that will …
Read More »As the US pressures Russia to renegotiate the New START Treaty, it exposes its own unreliability as a negotiating partner
According to Politico, “The Trump administration has asked the military to assess how quickly it could pull nuclear weapons out of storage and load them onto bombers and submarines” when the New START treaty limiting the size of the US and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals expires in February. Politico sources …
Read More »In refusing to extend New START, the US puts the world on the path of collective suicide
In a fable attributed to the Ancient Greek fabulist and storyteller Aesop, a scorpion and a frog meet at the bank of a river. The scorpion asks the frog to take him to the other side. The frog turns down the scorpion’s request, noting that the scorpion will sting him …
Read More »‘Antifa are thrilled to hear this’: Portland police ask protesters not to start blazes amid statewide wildfire emergency
Wildfires in the state have consumed at least two towns, turned the skies red, caused ash to fall like rain and filled the air with thick, acrid smoke. “This is proving to be an unprecedented and significant fire event for our state,” Brown said on Tuesday. Despite the threat of …
Read More »As US stalls on extension of New Start treaty seeking to gain control over China, the world is on verge of dangerous arms race
When a third round of nuclear arms-control talks concluded this week in Vienna, it was clear that the American and Russian sides were still at odds over commitments to renew the New START treaty. The treaty, signed in 2010, limits the number of strategic nuclear weapons deployed by each side. …
Read More »The opposition it makes sense to start to appeal to the security forces
All their protests, the opposition is referring to one destination — the country’s political leadership, Putin. Well, in those cases when we are talking about the protest at the regional level, the role Putin is playing the Governor. In any case, it is first person. It was the first of …
Read More »Can start to punish for insulting officials in the review of social networks
Alexander Khinshtein introduced the act on the punishment of comments in social networks insulting officials and politicians All the news headlines recently publicized that in the state Duma received the draft law on the punishment for the officials for insulting public statements. Co-author of this initiative, a member of the …
Read More »A vaccine against coronavirus in Russia will start producing in August
The vaccine for coronavirus created at the National research center of epidemiology and Microbiology named Gamalei, said Director Alexander Gintsburg. Now preparing its preclinical trials, and production is planned to begin in August. “I think by the end of summer. I’d like to think,” said Ginzburg in the program “Dangerous …
Read More »Start-up of new railway routes to the Crimea
The company “Grand Service Express” (the GSE), which trains with the end of 2019 go from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the Crimea via a bridge across the Kerch Strait, in April 2020, will launch new routes from cities in mainland Russia to the Peninsula. In April of the train …
Read More »Sad girl: the Russians took place from 19th to 21st in the mass start at the world Cup
The last race of the 6th stage of the biathlon world Cup in Slovenian Pokljuka was the women’s mass start. From Russia it was part of the four athletes, but Larisa Kuklina felt n it is important at the start did not. In advance it was clear that to rely …
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