The Jen Psaki era in the White House briefing room will end next week, as President Joe Biden’s press secretary will be replaced by her deputy as she reportedly takes a position on the other side of the podium, at MSNBC. Karine Jean-Pierre will take over as press secretary on …
Read More »EU sanctions Russia’s defense head, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, RT’s editor-in-chief
The European Union has imposed sanctions on a series of senior Russian officials – including Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and presidential chief of staff Anton Vaino – as well RT’s own editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, accusing each of helping to “threaten the territorial integrity” of Ukraine. Responding to Moscow’s decision to …
Read More »‘Collective West is living in fantasy land’: Russia’s FM spokeswoman speaks to RT amid new wave of anti-Kremlin craze
The consistently cold relations between the West and Russia have been heightened by a series of major scandals recently, despite these being based on imaginary grounds. For instance, massive military drills in Russia’s southeast have prompted hysteria in multiple NATO countries and a fresh wave of doomsday predictions regarding an …
Read More »Lack of real leadership: Covid-19 exposed ‘massive problems’ in the EU & the West, Russia’s FM spokeswoman tells RT
The European Union (EU) has repeatedly exhibited an inability to make decisions and defend its own interests lately, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told RT Deutsch’s Thomas Fasbender in an exclusive interview. The bloc failed to act as a truly independent entity during the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project saga. …
Read More »‘Biden is quite busy,’ WH spokeswoman says after Putin challenges US leader to live unscripted debate
Asked by reporters on Thursday whether Biden would consider the offer from his Russian counterpart, spokeswoman Jen Psaki answered in the negative, saying she did not have any news about a future meeting, virtual or otherwise, and that the president’s schedule is full. “I’ll have to get back to you …
Read More »White House spokeswoman Psaki ridicules question about plans for Space Force, suggests Biden hasn’t given it a thought
Asked at Tuesday’s White House press briefing whether Biden had made a decision on keeping the Space Force or changing its scope, Psaki said with a smile, “Wow, Space Force, it’s the plane of today,” apparently likening the query to a January 22 question on the president’s plans for the …
Read More »Russia’s FM spokeswoman urges US & other countries decrying Navalny’s detention ‘not to interfere’ with Russian law
In a Facebook post on Sunday evening, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to US President-elect Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan who demanded Moscow “immediately releases” Navalny who was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after returning from Germany earlier that day. Apart from calling Navalny to be …
Read More »Alexey Navalny ‘in coma’ after falling ill on flight from Siberia, spokeswoman suspects Moscow protest leader’s tea was ‘poisoned’
His spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh says the unconscious activist is currently on a ventilator in the city of Omsk, where his plane landed on Thursday morning. Anatoly Kalinichenko, deputy chief physician of the hospital where he was taken, cautioned that “there is no certainty that the cause of Navalny’s condition is poisoning.” According to …
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