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The sweeping bans imposed on Russian athletes are the result of “unprecedented external pressure and Russophobic hysteria” but sporting organizations will reverse course and understand their mistakes, according to Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) president Stanislav Pozdnyakov. Russian and Belarusian competitors have been barred from a wide range of international events …

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic hit out against the “hysteria” demonstrated by several Balkan states that barred the plane of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov from using their airspace. During a televised address on Monday, Vucic said that the organized campaigns against a small country like Serbia over Lavrov’s planned visit …

The US should stop hyping up the possibility of a war between Russia and Ukraine and must end the constant “hysteria” against Moscow, the Russian Embassy in Washington has claimed, suggesting that rhetoric from American officials is making the situation worse. The embassy’s comment, published to Facebook on Wednesday, signals …

The American & British governments have spread reports of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine in order to declare victory in a “heroic fight,” after the humiliation of Afghanistan, and deflect attention from their domestic problems, Moscow has claimed. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova posted the accusation on her Telegram channel …

Some European capitals have a “jealous attitude” towards states in Africa and the Middle East, the independence of which they were forced to recognize, and whose decision to hire a private company to handle their security “exacerbates their post-imperial ambitions,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed on Tuesday.  Zakharova was addressing …

Speaking to the press, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed the accusation as simply “wrong.” “This hysteria, which is being stirred up now in the Anglo-Saxon media, in the Ukrainian media, and is supported by Ukrainian politicians led by the head of state [President Volodymyr Zelensky], is absolutely unacceptable,” …

As a participant at several UNFCCC conferences, I am proud that methodologies I created, funded, and advanced for more than a decade have helped make a difference in mitigating the impacts of climate change. Over the years, trillions of dollars have been deployed on climate change mitigation. But this latest …

Speaking on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Beijing firmly opposed the US continuously exaggerating the “China threat theory.” He stated that Beijing’s only interest was self-defense, and claimed it would not engage in a nuclear arms race with any country.  “China’s development of necessary military capabilities is …

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the first part of its sixth assessment report – the first such assessment for seven years. The response of the mainstream media has been so predictable that it seemed many journalists wrote their articles in advance of its publication, merely …

On Thursday, the NYT published an astonishing article titled ‘The Chinese Sports Machine’s Single Goal: The Most Golds At Any Cost’. The piece effectively claimed China had rigged the Olympics for political purposes, accusing it of “putting tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools” and funnelling young athletes …