Criticizing President Donald Trump for using terms such as “Chinese virus” to refer to the Covid-19-causing pathogen, Democrats insisted his rhetoric has increased “discrimination” against Asian-Americans. Their resolution, sponsored by Rep. Grace Meng (D-New York) all the way back in March, passed on Thursday in a 243-164 vote. “Sadly this …
Read More »US to pull back 2,200 troops from Iraq, Pentagon confirms…but several thousand more still to stay
The US recognizes “the great progress the Iraqi forces have made,” Marine General Frank McKenzie, the head of US Central Command, said during a visit to Iraq as he announced the relocation of American troops. The drawdown in Iraq was long unticipated and likely to be confirmed soon by Donald …
Read More »Why the Putin government still find some “liberals”?
It is unclear why our government Putin still find some “liberals”? There all a bunch of “dirigiste” — fans manual (if not rougher “in unisex”) control. Plus Frank grabbers in the state monopoly. From the USSR we have left is the “raw” model laid down by Stalin — all the …
Read More »Vote do not vote still goes to Putin
Summer of protest hysteria in full swing, all waiting for something and rubbing their hands against the background of rallies in Khabarovsk. All (though who did?) expect that little bit more and explode, “Putin’s regime” will collapse and there will come or at least manifest the contours of the …
Read More »In Russia coronavirus is still there
A month ago, I had to pay attention to the fact that, according to Rosstat, in Russia in March 2020 cases COVID-19 was not. It has been a month, has just released a fresh official data for the April edition of Rosstat “Socio-economic situation of Russia, January — may 2020”. …
Read More »High jumper Laecken still not received the prize for “Russian winter”
Three-time world champion in the high jump Russian Maria Laecken winning in February at the Moscow tournament “Russian winter” with the best result of the season in the world, still can not get her prize money for participation in the competition. – The head of wfla Yurchenko complained that all …
Read More »The Russians still can’t realize that it is their BlackLivesMatter movement
I see that many Russians still can not realize that #BlackLivesMatter is their movement. At the global level, the Russians have even less rights and opportunities than black in America. Of us pumping all the resources, money, our time, our rights — not even our top 1%, how much global …
Read More »Russia is still not too late to make concessions to Japan
Time, to change its tough stance on Japan, Russia’s less – before leaving Abe as Prime Minister remained about a year. If Moscow will go on some concessions, a special approach Abe to Russia cannot be called a failure, that might convince the successor of Abe to continue his policy …
Read More »To peak and leaving the epidemic is still far
We have already discussed that the data on “reported cases” of mers actually irrelevant. Different countries have completely different strategies of testing, using the tests of different quality and compare data about the official number of reported cases, as well as the summation of their different countries, has not the …
Read More »Analysts: market Sentiment is extremely negative, and still have to fall
The mood in global stock and commodity platforms remains extremely negative in view of the rapid worldwide spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, and markets still have to fall, I believe financial analysts. “Sentiment in global stock and commodity platforms remains extremely negative. By Thursday evening from a fall could not …
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