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  • Ukraine expropriates country’s oldest church over Russia ties

    03/27/2024 12:37:43 PM PDT · by navysealdad · 22 replies
    The government of Ukraine has seized a historic 12th-century cathedral from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), through a court challenge. The government has been harassing the UOC for years, pushing priests and worshipers to switch their allegiance to the Kiev-approved Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Members of the canonical church have been accused of being Russian collaborators.
  • US, Britain, Ukraine behind Crocus City Hall attack — FSB chief

    03/26/2024 11:42:27 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 38 replies
    Tass ^ | March 26, 2024
    The United States, Britain and Ukraine are behind the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, the chief of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov has told the media. "We believe that this is true. In any case, we are now talking about the factual information we have. This is general information, but they have a long record of this sort," he said after participating in an enlarged meeting of the Prosecutor General's Office board, when asked whether the US, Britain and Ukraine were behind the terrorist attack. Bortnikov believes that Ukraine has been trying to prove it is capable...
  • Putin: It is Clear Who Carried Out Concert Hall Attack, Question is Who Benefits

    03/25/2024 3:22:32 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 116 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 3/25/24
    MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow had been committed by radical Islamists. "We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries," Putin said. Even though Russia knows who carried out the terrorist attack in the Crocus concert hall, but the mastermind behind it is still in question, and we need to find out whether radical Islamists really decided to strike at the country, the Russian president said. "In...
  • Meeting on measures being taken after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall

    03/25/2024 2:33:41 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 20 replies
    President of Russia ^ | 3/25/24 | Vladimir Putin
    First of all, I would like to express again my deep condolences to the families and friends of those who perished in the inhuman terrorist attack of March 22, and wish a speedy recovery to the injured and wounded. I would like to thank everyone who saved people and helped the injured in extremely difficult circumstances. In this difficult time, our society showed an example of true solidarity, unity, and mutual support. I know that the victims’ families are receiving words of sympathy from people of different ethnicities, from all regions of our country and of all ages, including children...
  • Russian special services received US data on terror plot, but without any details — source

    03/23/2024 2:48:01 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 26 replies
    Tass ^ | March 23, 2024
    MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. Russia’s special services received information from the United States on a terrorist plot, but this data was of general nature without any specific details, a source in the special services told TASS. After a statement of spokesperson for the White House National Security Council Adrienne Watson that the United States had shared information with Russian authorities about a terrorist attack being planned in Moscow, the source in the Russian special services said that "such information had been indeed received." However, he stressed, that "it was of general nature, without any specifics.".
  • Ukraine’s losses after attack on Russian border amount to 7 tanks, 3 Bradleys, 234 troops

    03/13/2024 1:53:24 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 47 replies
    Tass ^ | 3/12/24 | Tass
    MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/. Ukraine lost 234 troops, seven tanks, and three Bradley combat vehicles during an attack on the Russian border in the Belgorod and Kursk Regions, the Russian defense ministry said. As Russia’s Defense Ministry reported earlier on Tuesday, Russian troops jointly with the Federal Security Service (FSB) thwarted an attempt by the Kiev regime to break through into the borderline territory in the Belgorod and Kursk Regions. "As a result of active actions by border units of the Battlegroup West and the Border Service of the Russian Federal Security Service, terrorist units of the Kiev regime were...
  • Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.

    03/08/2024 5:21:13 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 53 replies
    The New York Times ^ | March 7, 2024 | Steven Lee Myers
    Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle. In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture. While Russia has long sought ways to influence public discourse in...
  • Thousands turn out to mourn Navalny, defying Putin, at funeral in Moscow

    03/01/2024 2:59:58 PM PST · by Timber Rattler · 40 replies
    NBC News.com ^ | March 1, 2024 | Alexander Smith
    For one day at least, Russia’s opposition came alive to mourn its lost leader. The funeral of Alexei Navalny on Friday almost did not happen at all. But thousands ultimately turned out — braving the snow, heavy security and weeks of Kremlin efforts to derail the event — so that they could pay their respects to the man who challenged President Vladimir Putin with a vision for a democratic Russia. Bearing flowers, candles and placards, the crowd chanted Navalny’s name as his body was first delivered to a church in southern Moscow for a brief funeral and then to a...
  • Vladimir Putin rival and Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny dies in prison

    02/16/2024 3:50:24 AM PST · by deks · 142 replies
    The Mirror ^ | February 16, 2024 | Liam Buckler
    Vladimir Putin's fierce rival and critic Alexei Navalny has died, according to the prison service. The Russian opposition leader, who was the most prominent and persistent domestic foe of President Vladimir Putin, had been serving a 19-year sentence on an extremism conviction. He had been incarcerated in central Russia’s Vladimir region, 140 miles east of Moscow. Navalny has been behind bars in Russia since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Before his arrest, he campaigned against official corruption and organized major anti-Kremlin protests.
  • Kremlin Explains Why Putin Chose Tucker Carlson for Interview

    02/07/2024 10:44:41 AM PST · by marshmallow · 88 replies
    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has revealed on Tuesday why Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to be interviewed by the former Fox host. Tucker Carlson maintains a position that differs from that of other Western journalists, according to Peskov. “His stance is by no means pro-Russian and it is not pro-Ukrainian – rather, it is pro-American,” the spokesman said. “But at least it differs from the stance of all these traditional Anglo-Saxon media.” While Peskov did confirm that Carlson interviewed Putin during a personal meeting on Tuesday, he refrained from providing any further details about the interview. “After all, it was...
  • Putin Spokesman Disputes Tucker Carlson's Interviews Claim

    02/07/2024 7:22:43 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 53 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 2/7/2024 | Isabel van Brugen
    The Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Moscow, but disputed a claim he made that Western journalists hadn't attempted to interview the leader throughout the war. -snip- Peskov said Carlson is "wrong" by suggesting that Western journalists haven't attempted to interview Putin—an assertion the former Fox News host made in a lengthy video announcing his interview with the Russian leader. "He, in fact, cannot know this. We receive many requests for interviews with the president," Peskov said. -snip- Many Western journalists have interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
  • Kremlin confirms Putin gave interview to ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson

    02/07/2024 5:10:32 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 78 replies
    Reuters ^ | 2/7/2024 | Guy Faulconbridge
    President Vladimir Putin granted an interview to U.S. television host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, his first to an American journalist since before Russia's invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago. -snip- The interview is likely to be aired on Thursday, Russia's TASS news agency said, citing reports by the Wall Street Journal
  • Tucker Carlson claims he's interviewing Vladimir Putin because 'Americans are not informed' about the war in Ukraine - despite 'paying for it in ways they don't understand'

    02/06/2024 12:32:04 PM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 181 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 6 February 2024 | Updated: 15:21 EST, 6 February 2024 | Germania Rodriguez Poleo and Ross Ibbetson For Dailymail.com
    Tucker Carlson has confirmed he is in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin - and he's doing it because 'Americans are not informed' about the war in Ukraine. The former Fox News host announced on X on Tuesday that he would be publishing an interview with the Russian despot, following widespread speculation after he was pictured leaving the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday. Carlson, 54, said the interview would air 'unedited' on his website, without a paywall, and on X, making him the first American to interview Putin since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. 'Two years into a war that's reshaping...
  • RFK Jr. says Tucker Carlson has 'every right' to speak to Putin as Russian media shares video of host 'leaving the Kremlin'

    02/05/2024 11:26:04 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 35 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2/5/2024 | Germania Rodriguez Poleo and Kamal Sultan
    Robert F Kennedy has expressed his support of a potential sit-down between Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin. 'The legacy media is in shambles because we’ve caught onto their lies and propaganda. Tucker Carlson has every right to interview Putin,' the third-Party presidential candidate said on Sunday. 'We need more transparency instead of less. It used to be understood journalists would interview world leaders, even those with whom we were at war.' Kennedy's post on X comes amid ongoing speculation that Carlson may become the first Westerner to interview the Russian despot during the war in Ukraine. Russian state media fueled...
  • Kremlin gives nothing away about why Tucker Carlson might be in Russia

    02/05/2024 6:58:56 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies
    KFGO ^ | 2/5/2024 | Reuters
    The Kremlin on Monday declined to say whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin would grant an interview to U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson – or whether he was in Moscow. “We can hardly be expected to provide information on the movement of foreign journalists,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about speculation that Carlson was in Russia to interview Putin. “Many foreign journalists come to Russia every day, many continue to work here, and we welcome this,” Peskov said. “We have nothing to announce in terms of the president’s interviews to foreign media.”
  • Putin is 'putting out feelers' to see if America is ready for talks on ENDING war in Ukraine with the president 'prepared to drop opposition to Kyiv joining NATO', report claims

    01/26/2024 7:26:18 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 89 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/26/2024 | Miriam Kuepper
    Vladimir Putin is allegedly putting out feelers to see if America is ready for talks on ending the war in Ukraine. The Russian president is also 'prepared to drop opposition to Kyiv joining Nato', according to a new Bloomberg report.
  • State Department responds to Putin on Alaska: ‘Certainly he’s not getting it back’

    01/23/2024 10:22:42 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 68 replies
    The Hill ^ | January 23, 2024 | MIRANDA NAZZARO
    The State Department on Monday brushed off reports of Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering his government to look into the nation’s former “real estate” abroad, saying Alaska would be staying in American hands. Putin signed a new decree last week to allocate funds for the research and registration of Russian property overseas, including that in former territories of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, Russian state media TASS reported. The decree, which comes amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, did not specifically mention Alaska, though it caught the attention of military bloggers, who argued Putin was using the decree to...
  • Putin's Decree Triggers Ominous Alaska Calls

    01/23/2024 6:59:47 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 73 replies
    Newsweek ^ | January 22, 2024 | David Brennan
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new decree relating to Moscow's historic real estate holdings abroad, a move interpreted by ultranationalist bloggers as a foundation for future revanchism against Russia's neighbors—and even the U.S. The decree, signed by the president late last week, allocates funds for the search, registration, and legal protection of Russian property abroad, including property in the former territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. This would include Alaska, swathes of eastern and central Europe, large chunks of central Asia, and parts of Scandinavia. Russia's Foreign Ministry and its presidential administration's Foreign Property Management...
  • Anti-War Challenger Duntsova Barred From Running Against Russia's Putin

    12/23/2023 6:35:02 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 55 replies
    U.S. News ^ | 12/23/2023 | Reuters
    Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified on Saturday from running against President Vladimir Putin in an election next March because of alleged flaws in her application to register as a candidate. Video from a meeting of the central electoral commission showed members voting unanimously to reject the candidacy of Duntsova, who had wanted to run on a platform to end the war in Ukraine and release political prisoners. -snip- The head of the electoral commission, Ella Pamfilova, offered words of consolation to Duntsova after her rejection. "You are a young woman, you have everything ahead of you. Any minus...
  • How pro-Russian 'yacht' propaganda influenced US debate over Ukraine aid

    12/21/2023 12:05:52 PM PST · by Timber Rattler · 139 replies
    BBC News.com ^ | December 20, 2023 | Olga Robinson, Shayan Sardarizadeh, and Mike Wendling
    A website founded by a former US Marine who now lives in Russia has fuelled a rumour that Volodymyr Zelensky purchased two luxury yachts with American aid money. Despite the false claim, the disinformation plot was successful. It took off online and was echoed by members of the US Congress making crucial decisions about military spending. It was an incredible assertion - using two advisers as proxies, Mr Zelensky paid $75m (£59m) for two yachts. But not only has the Ukrainian government flatly denied the story, the two ships in question have not even been sold. Despite being false, the...