Moscow Blasts "Extremely Outrageous" Strike On Syria As Biden Stays Silent
As expected Russia has reacted fiercely to the overnight US airstrikes on eastern Syria, which marked the first military action of the Biden presidency, calling...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Myanmar's military has relocated deposed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi from the place where she was kept under house arrest to an unknown location six days ago, Myanmar Now reported on Friday, citing sources.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - China's crude oil reserves have consistently risen to over 100 days worth of net imports, pushing the limits of stockpiles and making it challenging to find new reservoirs, confidential sources told Bloomberg on Friday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia is ready to cooperate on creation and implementation of a global COVID-19 immunization plan as proposed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
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BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - The Argentinian government announced on Friday that it will be manufacturing Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine following a deal signed between the representative of Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute and Argentina's...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - In a Friday interview with the Financial Times, South Korean Unification Minister Lee In-young urged for a review of the efficacy of sanctions on North Korea and warned that they can trigger a worsening of the humanitarian crisis...
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sent to a prison outside Moscow to serve his sentence, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that came despite a demand by Europe's top human rights court for his release.Navalny lawyer Vadim Kobzev did...
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Robert Farley
History, Europe
The Soviet Union did try, but it did not have the same economic and industrial output as America.
Key point: The Soviet navy just could not compete and modern-day Russia remains largely a landpower. Indeed, even now...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - One person died and 14 others were injured at an ongoing political protest in Iraq's southern Nasiriyah city as a result of clashes with law enforcement, Iraqi news agency Shafaq reported on Thursday, citing a source.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian diplomats resorted to an unconventional means of travel to cross the border from North Korea on Thursday after the reclusive Communist state shut borders to stop coronavirus slipping in.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy Cedric O on Thursday told the France 2 broadcaster that it was mafia-linked groups rather than foreign interference behind recent cyberattacks on French hospitals and related leaks...
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Mark Episkopos
Security, Europe
Moscow is certainly going all in on its powerful line of anti-air missile units, but even the S-500 is not in serial production yet.
Does Russia already possess the successor models to its S-500 missile defense...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked US President Joe Biden during a recent phone conversation to keep sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, imposed by the administration of former President...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Facebook has banned the Myanmar military and military-controlled state media from using its platforms weeks after a military coup in the Southeast Asian country that provoked mass violent demonstrations, the company announced on...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Landslides have hit a gold mine in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi leaving at least five people dead and 70 more missing, Head of Provincial Disaster Management Agency Datu Pamusu Tombolotutu told the Xinhua news...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration has officially invited a tender for exhuming and transporting over 4 million mink carcasses culled last fall due to mutated coronavirus.
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Earlier in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, described the EU's decision to expand sanctions against Russia over the Navalny case as a "circus" and a story scripted in advance.
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Lenin addressing vsevobuch troops on red square in moscow on may 25, 1919. (Photo by: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)
Back in July 2020 Scott McKay at American Spectator wrote an amazing piece on the Four Stages of Marxist Takeover.
McKay’s...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - German company Wintershall Dea has completed its 730 million euro ($888 million) investments in the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 project before US sanctions went into force, its 2020 annual report said on Wednesday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has called the killing of Italy's Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, and Carabiniere police officer Vittorio Iacovacci a ‘cowardly attack’ adding that Italy...
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