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Nero fiddled while Rome Burned. Is Haiti Rome? Send in Chad.

Published March 23, 2024

Haiti Temple The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 2019 Haiti is on fire. Literally, and not in a good way. Are the Nero(es) in the State Department and Senate Foreign Relations fiddlin’ around? Are they incapable of doing more than 3 things simultaneously? To watch America’s State department and Congress, all their […]

Putin Puts Russian Warships On ‘Permanent Standby’ Near Syria

Published May 21, 2018

Defense The Russian Navy’s guided-missile destroyer Smetlivy sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey April 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan Putin Puts Russian Warships On ‘Permanent Standby’ Near Syria Will Racke Immigration and Foreign Policy Reporter 1:34 PM 05/20/2018 Russian warships armed with advanced cruise missiles will be […]

Ukraine Fortifies Its Airwaves Against Russian TV Broadcasts

Published May 3, 2018

Ukraine Fortifies Its Airwaves Against Russian TV Broadcasts Nolan Peterson / @nolanwpeterson / May 02, 2018 / comments Many civilians living in eastern Ukraine’s war zone had access only to Russian broadcast television for years. (Photo: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal) KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine has gone to war against Russian propaganda. Last week, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko […]

Russia’s floating nuclear plant heads out to sea

Published April 29, 2018

Let’s Make A Deal, But Do The Russians Want One?

Published April 25, 2018

By: Yigal Carmon, President of MEMRI. In recent days, German media[1] have reported that U.S. and European diplomats are ready to offer Russian President Vladimir Putin a deal on Syria, indirectly addressing Iran, which is the hardest nut to crack in the Syria crisis, even more so than President Bashar Al-Assad. MEMRI research on Russian media […]

Published April 24, 2018

Russia This Week – April 22, 2018 Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Quotes Of The Week Commenting on an Instagram post from Damascus by the secretary of the […]

Kremlin’s earnings list gives glimpse of officials’ wealth

Published April 18, 2018

The Kremlin’s annual list of Russian officials’ earnings has provided an outline of the richest names in government, even as the true wealth of many big-hitters remains opaque. Anomalous results include a senator whose income is 230 times higher than the previous year and several government heavyweights whose earnings are eclipsed by those of their […]

Syria chemical attack ‘staged’ with help of foreign secret service: Russia

Published April 13, 2018

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said Moscow had “irrefutable” evidence that an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria was staged with the help of a foreign secret service. “We have irrefutable evidence that this was another staged event, and that the secret services of a certain state that is now at the forefront […]

Ukraine Rejects Russian Gas Offer

Published April 13, 2018

Ukraine this week dismissed as unacceptable a natural gas transit proposal by Russian energy giant Gazprom. Kyiv’s move will further complicate efforts by Western European governments to persuade their Central European counterparts to withdraw objections to Nord Stream 2, a Kremlin-favored pipeline being built under the Baltic Sea to deliver gas from Russia to Germany […]

Russia ‘bought silence’ over biathlon doping – report

Published April 12, 2018

Russia attempted to buy the silence of world biathlon chiefs to cover up doping, a confidential report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) seen by French daily Le Monde claimed Wednesday. Based on the potentially damning 16-page WADA report, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) had done “everything so that no proceedings would be opened against […]

Russian Envoy Requests Meeting with Britain’s Johnson Over Spy Case

Published April 8, 2018

Russia’s embassy in London has requested a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury, saying its dealings with Britain over the issue had been “utterly unsatisfactory.” The Russian Embassy said in a statement that it was “high time” for a meeting between Johnson and Ambassador […]

Turkey hosts critical summit on Syria with Russia, Iran

Published April 4, 2018

The presidents of Iran, Turkey and Russia meet on Wednesday for their second tripartite summit in under six months, aiming to speed the peace process for Syria and bolster their influence in the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will host his Russian and Iranian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani in Ankara for a […]

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