Russia will invest $17 mil to build a bridge all the way to Japan
(The Moscow Times) – Russia’s state-run rail company has allocated 1 billion rubles ($17 million) to connect the island of Sakhalin to the Russian mainland in a grand infrastructure bid that could end...
View ArticleUkrainian spy busted in Crimea, now in custody
(SouthFront) – Russian military counterintelligence has detained a civilian employee of the Black Sea Fleet, RIA reports, citing an anonymous source. According to the source, the former fleet officer...
View ArticleGerman survey: Overwhelming majority in Crimea still support joining Russia
It’s been over three years since the “revolution of dignity” that overthrew the constitutional government of Ukraine resulted in the people of Crimea voting to ditch the failed state they were forced...
View ArticleRussia says Crimean bridge to be opened to motor vehicles this month
(Pravda.ru) – The Kerch bridge – the bridge to link the Crimea with mainland Russia – is to be launched as early as in December of 2018. The section of the bridge for motor vehicles is said to be...
View ArticleRussia’s exclusion from the 2018 Olympics is all about Crimea
(Pravda.ru) – Have you ever noticed how Putin listens to speakers at various levels, such as State Council meetings, congresses and press conferences? At all official meetings and events, Putin can...
View ArticleTillerson’s remarks on Crimea are typical of the unnecessary battles the US...
(Buchanan) – “We will never accept Russia’s occupation and attempted annexation of Crimea,” declaimed Rex Tillerson last week in Vienna. “Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia...
View ArticleRussians worried new sanctions coming from Trump administration
(Forbes) – The Russians aren’t getting much from the Trump team. The latest: concern that a closed list of Russian individuals will be sanctioned by Treasury and shared with Europe as an official...
View ArticleBoris Johnson rips Russia just one day before landing in Moscow
(Strategic Culture Foundation) – Boris Johnson arrives in Moscow on Dec. 21 to hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov the next day – the first visit to Russia by a British foreign...
View ArticleRussia’s Tatneft operated in Crimea despite U.S. sanction risk
(OilPrice) – Russia’s oil company Tatneft, one of the biggest in the country, operated in Crimea until very recently despite the risk of being blacklisted by the U.S., Reuters reported on Wednesday,...
View ArticleMerkel and Macron call for renewed dialogue on Ukraine as Trump sends Kiev...
(Forbes) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her French counterpart Emmanuel Macron called on the Russian government to do something about the recent escalation of rebel fighting in the Donbass...
View ArticleEurope is now more dependent on Russian gas than ever before
(OilPrice.com) – Despite years of effort from the EU, Russia’s grip over natural gas supplies in Europe is tightening, not waning. Gazprom shipped 190 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe in...
View ArticleHere’s who Washington’s sending arms – Meet Nazi Ukraine’s would be Führer
(Oriental Review) – Today’s Ukraine is painfully reminiscent of Germany in the 1920s: poor governance on the heels of a lost war, which – added to the sense of betrayed hopes and the sharp decline in...
View ArticleLunatic Ukraine coup govt planned to blow up their own gas pipeline
(RT) – A Ukrainian deputy minister has revealed that Kiev had plans to blow up a “Russian gas pipe” in 2014-15. It opted not to do so to in order to avoid “Russian aggression.” Yury Grimchak, the...
View ArticleAide to Trump advised reducing US troops on Russia’s borders
(Sputnik) – The official who rolled out the proposal is Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Planning Kevin Harrington, the media outlet specified. In February 2017, Harrington offered to...
View ArticleRussians deploy S-400 missile batteries to reinforce defenses in Crimea region
EuroNews reported that the Russian military forces have deployed a new unit with S-400 Anti-Ballistic missile batteries in Crimea. These arrived on January 13th, when Moscow deployed this new division...
View ArticleSHOCKING: Russia offers to return military hardware to Ukraine as goodwill...
Russia’s recent offer to give Ukraine back its military hardware, which had been left behind in Crimea may be shocking, but its an incredibly sensible idea. It could have mid to long term symbolic...
View ArticleUS professor lectures Washington: Crimea is Russian, learn history and stop...
In reminding Americans the crucial historical role of Crimea to Russia, and Russia to Crimea, an American professor teaches us all the importance of history. Among many things, Professor Lyle...
View ArticleEurope’s largest mosque to be built in Crimea
(Pravda.ru) – Europe’s largest mosque is to be built in the city of Simferopol, the Crimea, until the end of the year. “Until December, all the construction works will be completed before landscaping...
View ArticleTurbines and children are the latest targets of irrational western sanctions...
Ostracism, as a political negotiating tool is increasingly today’s answer in negotiating what some call politically aligned settlements, or the “inclusive” world’s version of this millennium’s...
View ArticleRussia’s Foreign Ministry mocks US “show of impotence” in new sanctions
On Friday, January 26, Washington DC added 21 Russian and / or Ukrainian national citizens and nine companies to the blacklist of sanctioned people by the US Treasury Department. The Russian Foreign...
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