Given official Washington’s unashamed disregard for the environment, including pulling out of the Paris Agreement, it remains to be seen whether challenges to the balance of power could push Americans towards ditching their SUVs. Under President Donald Trump’s administration, the US’ refusal to make serious steps towards slowing down global …
Read More »Putin BANNED from the Olympics, no flag or anthem: Key takeaways after CAS upholds Russia sports suspension
CAS announced on Thursday that it had reduced Russia’s ban from four to two years on appeal, but the decision still means the Russian flag and anthem will be absent from the next two editions of the Olympic Games – Tokyo in the summer of 2021, and the Winter Games …
Read More »Putin says outrage over ‘anti-Islam’ cartoons & French street beheading is evidence that ‘multiculturalism has failed’ in West
In response to a question from RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov as part of his annual end-of-year press conference on Thursday, Putin said there was a fine balance between expressing yourself and insulting the feelings of entire groups of people. “Where is the boundary between one freedom and another freedom,” the …
Read More »Putin hopes Biden will put an end to Moscow interference in US elections hysteria, says it’s used to tarnish US-Russian relations
During his annual end-of-year press conference on Thursday, Putin was asked by the singer, who branched out into politics and journalism earlier this year, why Russian hackers didn’t help Trump secure re-election this time around. “It isn’t so much a question,” Putin replied, “as a provocation. Russian hackers didn’t help …
Read More »Putin claims opposition figure Alexey Navalny working with American intelligence, says Kremlin not behind his alleged poisoning
Putin added that if Russian security services wanted to assassinate the western-leaning protest leader, they would have “finished the job.” He also insisted that the FSB were within their rights to follow Navalny, given their suspicions. Earlier this week, a joint report by the US and UK state-funded Bellingcat, Russia’s …
Read More »WATCH LIVE: Vladimir Putin holds annual year-end press conference
Putin began the tradition of year-end press conferences – which became a sort of less formal state-of-the-nation appearance – back in 2001. From 2004 on, they often turned into marathons, lasting for at least three hours. The record was set in 2008, when the president broadcast live for 280 minutes – …
Read More »Putin congratulates Biden on presidential victory, expects respect-based cooperation to serve US, Russian & wider global interests
Putin wished Biden a successful tenure and said he personally “was ready for cooperation and contacts” with his incoming counterpart, the Kremlin explained, on Tuesday morning. The message from the Russian president went on to say that despite their differences the US and Russia can together help solve many of …
Read More »Kremlin dismisses conspiracy theories about Putin hiding from Covid-19 in ‘Sochi bunker,’ says president working in Moscow
Last week, the Lithuania-based news outlet Proekt Media accused Putin of “hiding in a bunker,” despite having made visits to both St. Petersburg and Sochi in recent weeks. The publication also claimed that the president built two identical offices, one in Sochi itself, so that nobody knows his true location. …
Read More »‘You’re not afraid of asking uncomfortable questions’: President Putin marks RT’s 15 years on air
When RT aired its first program from its Moscow studios on December 10, 2005, “we couldn’t have imagined how drastically this project would change the global news agenda, how much more versatile and richer the channel would make it,” Putin said in his address. Over 15 years, RT has grown …
Read More »‘Putin has cancer’ pundit beloved by Western media arrested for flouting Covid-19 restrictions at St. Petersburg rally
On Sunday, local newspaper Fontanka reported that the political scientist had been detained for breaching the region’s coronavirus prevention laws – specifically those requiring the wearing of masks – at what police say was a rally for his ‘Peremen’ opposition movement. According to reports, the event was disrupted by counter-protesters, …
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