The former president returned to his home country on Friday. The politician, who left Georgia in 2013, has been the subject of multiple criminal cases into his alleged abuses of power, including a violent crackdown on the opposition. He has already been sentenced to combined nine years behind bars in …
Read More »WATCH: Warships from Russia’s Northern Fleet hold tactical exercises simulating battle on remote arctic New Siberian Islands
Conducted last week, the exercise focused on the Laptev Sea, which is part of the Arctic Ocean. One of the islands in the area, called Kotelny, is the home to the 99th Tactical Group, which has built a runway, pier and accommodations for personnel. Its airbase is known as ‘Northern …
Read More »Not on the box: Ukrainians were forced to watch on Russian TV as heavyweight hero Usyk won title in UK, points out politician
While newly-crowned heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk shut out three-belt king Anthony Joshua in London, TV channels in his homeland dealt a low blow to boxing fans by failing to broadcast the thrilling scrap. That meant that Usyk’s compatriots could not join the huge crowd at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – …
Read More »WATCH passenger jet spew flames as it strikes a flock of EAGLES on takeoff in Cuba
Flight ZF 556, belonging to the Russian carrier Azur Air, was departing from the popular Cuban tourist hotspot of Varadero on Thursday when the incident happened. One of the Russian tourists, returning from Cuba to Moscow, was taking video as the Boeing-767-300 aircraft was taking off from the airport. It …
Read More »WATCH: Swiss police use rubber bullets, teargas and water cannons to disperse Bern protest against Covid passports
Thursday’s rally against the coronavirus measures was officially canceled by organizers and banned by the authorities, but a large number of people still turned up and marched through the city, chanting “freedom” and booing the police. As night fell, the authorities responded by turning water cannons on the protesters. One …
Read More »WATCH Lava ‘destroy everything it encounters’ in Canary Islands amid ongoing volcano eruption
Over 5,000 residents have been evacuated as molten lava swallowed up 100 residences on the island of La Palma, after the volcano located in the Cumbre Vieja National Park erupted on Sunday, for the first time since 1971. “We’re not expecting any other eruption,” Ángel Víctor Torres, president of the …
Read More »‘Are you undercover?’ WATCH riot cops at Justice for J6 rally detain masked man with a GUN… and a badge
Despite weeks of constant media reports fueling fears of imminent violence, the Saturday protest proceeded peacefully. It attracted only a few hundred activists – and several times as many police and other law enforcement agents. Authorities reported only a handful of minor disturbances, and a total of four arrests, one …
Read More »WATCH: Hundreds of thousands of Russian & Belarusian troops perform huge war games at joint Zapad 2021 quadrennial exercises
Zapad – which means ‘West’ in Russian – is hosted as a joint exercise between the two nations every four years. This year, over 800 vehicles and about 200,000 personnel took part, including around 2,000 military personnel from other allied nations, including India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia. This year’s exercise …
Read More »WATCH: Senator rips top diplomat after he admits he doesn’t know if US drone strike killed Afghan aid worker or ISIS-K terrorist
Pressed by Paul (R-Kentucky) on whether the August 29 strike killed an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative, Blinken testified in a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the Biden administration is reviewing the incident, and “a full assessment will be forthcoming.” “So you don’t know if it was an aid …
Read More »WATCH Russian airborne troops make nighttime assault landing at Russian-Belarusian war games
Some 600 Russian paratroopers were airdropped from several Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft at an altitude between 600 and 1,000 meters on Friday night, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The troops had to rely on night vision equipment during their training mission because they were descending in complete …
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