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The Russian Communist Party has announced it will form a coalition government with the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) in three regions where Kremlin-backed candidates suffered rare gubernatorial election defeats over the past week. Incumbents from the ruling party in the Far East Khabarovsk region and central Russia’s Vladimir region lost gubernatorial runoffs to LDPR on Sunday. Candidates from the Communist Party and A Just Russia will compete for the governor’s seat in the Siberian republic of Khakasia on Oct. 7 after its governor’s withdrawal from the race. “We will now form a coalition government in Khabarovsk, Vladimir and Khakasia,”...

T he head of the Russian Orthodox Church has awarded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with an order for "glory and honor." Patriarch Kirill gave the order to Zyuganov in Moscow on June 27, one day after the longtime communist leader celebrated his 70th birthday. Kirill said Zyuganov -- who in 2010 called for the re-Stalinization of Russia and has called the Soviet Union "the most humane state in human history" -- deserves the award as "one of the most famous Russian politicians who has expressed interest in the welfare of the nation and the protection of traditional moral values."...

ORIGINAL VIDEO AT LINK "I am not sure that Ukraine should preserve its sovereignty after our special operation, like many other small states," Russia wants not just to kill Ukrainians, but to deprive us of the state. This is discussed by ghouls at a meeting in the Federation Council. Andrey Sidorov, dean of the Faculty of world politics at Moscow State University, suggests taking away state sovereignty from Ukraine. In other words, the genocide of Ukrainians is now being prepared at the university level. https://t.me/informnapalm/6072

Another stunning victory for the Ukranian military!

Question 1– Can you explain to me why you think Russia is winning the war in Ukraine? Larry C. Johnson– Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian Ground Radar Intercept capabilities were wiped out. Without those radars, the Ukrainian Air Force lost its ability to do air to air intercept. In the intervening three weeks, Russia has established a de facto No Fly Zone over Ukraine. While still vulnerable to shoulder fired Surface to Air Missiles supplied by the U.S. and NATO to the Ukrainians, there is no evidence that Russia has had...

Valery Gerasimov: Russian General of the Army, the current Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and first Deputy Defence Minister. Sergei Shoigu: General of the Army who has served as Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation since 2012. Shoigu has also served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the Commonwealth of Independent States since 2012. Nikolai Patrushev: Security officer and intelligence officer. He served as Director of the Russian Federal Security Service, which is the main successor organization to the Soviet KGB, from 1999 to 2008, and he...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.Quoting Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Ukrainian Channel 24 TV presenter, Fahruddin Sharafmal, called for his countrymen to destroy the Russian nation by killing their children, and urged Ukrainians to “kill at least one Moskal” – a derogatory term for Russian – each.Eichmann was a senior SS officer who played a key role in setting up the Nazi death...

In a televised address Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his "special military operation" would seek the "demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine." Putin's comments refer to the Kremlin's allegation that Ukraine's military is run by neo-Nazis and is a threat to Russia, The New York Times reported. The goal "will be to defend people who for eight years are suffering persecution and genocide by the Kyiv regime," Putin said. "For this we will aim for demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as well as taking to court those who carried out multiple bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian...

Why the idea to return Dzerzhinsky monument to Lubyanka is too bad. Two news almost simultaneously came this week. News is number one. Communist Party leader Zyuganov appealed to Putin with a request to restore the monument to Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka Square. News number two. According to polls, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Zyuganov fell to the third place in the list of the most popular presidential candidates: not only Putin, but Zhirinovsky (of Liberal Democrat Party of Russia), is ahead of Gennady Andreyevich. The coincidence in the time of these two news, of course,...

Russia is preparing for the biggest Red Square military parade in modern history in a Soviet-style celebration marking the 65th anniversary of the USSR defeating Nazi Germany. By Andrew Osborn in Moscow Published: 8:18PM BST 28 Apr 2010 Russian heavy weapons drive along Tverskaya street in Moscow Photo: EPA The grandiose Moscow event on May 9 will be replicated on a smaller scale in 71 cities across Russia who will hold their own military parades making it a nationwide event involving around 100,000 troops. In Moscow, foreign soldiers, including a detachment of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and the Central...

As the Kremlin sends out invitations to world leaders to attend a Victory Day parade in Red Square on May 9, Moscow officials plan to set up large "information stands" in places where Russian veterans traditionally meet their war buddies. Previously, veterans were free to attend the celebrations with their own pictures of Stalin if they wished, but this will be first time since Soviet times that the authorities will be providing information on his role, which remains an issue of heated debate in modern Russia. "This is an insult for the millions of those who perished on the fronts...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has often described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest tragedy” of the 20th century, has now said that the “reunification” of Georgia has “already been decided,” a suggestion some of his listeners believe was a call for restoring Moscow’s control over Georgia and even the former USSR as a whole. In an intriguing commentary published in yesterday’s “Gazeta,” Bozhena Rynska describes both the celebration of the 80th birthday of longtime Soviet and Russian official Yevgeny Primakov and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s two very different toasts on that occasion (www.gazeta.ru/column/rynska/3287611.shtml). The celebration took...

MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Communist Party will hold protests outside the U.S. embassy in Moscow on Friday to mark Georgia's attack on South Ossetia, Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said on Monday. "We will hold protests in front of the U.S. embassy on [August] 7 in connection with the anniversary of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, or more precisely [Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili and his mercenaries' traitorous attack on a brotherly republic," Zyuganov said during a press conference in Moscow. The head of the Communist Party's Moscow department, Vladimir Ulas, said the U.S. embassy was chosen for the protests...

Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov says he enjoyed getting to meet Barack Obama along with other members of the Russian opposition this week and even saw eye-to-eye with the U.S. president on a few things. Interfax reports via Johnson's Russia List: "I said that I had thoroughly studied the U.S. president's anti-crisis program, that I liked it, as well as that it is socially oriented and primarily aimed at supporting poor people and enhancing the state's role. I said all this to President Obama," he said. Somehow I don't think you'll be seeing that endorsement on Whitehouse.gov.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Communists expect the global financial crisis will cause social unrest and help them challenge for power, the party's leader said on Saturday. Gennady Zyuganov told the party's annual congress the Communists should make maximum use of the growing public discontent caused by the economic downturn to try to restore their political strength. "The wind of history is blowing in our sails again ... At this time of crisis the world of imperialism is starting to die. We are standing on the threshold of political and social shifts," Zyuganov said in a 2-hour speech opening the congress....

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia’s Communist Party on Saturday nominated its leader, Gennadi A. Zyuganov, to run for president ahead of elections in March, pitting him against President Vladimir V. Putin’s preferred successor, Dmitri A. Medvedev. Although Mr. Putin has endorsed a presidential bid by Mr. Medvedev, who is a first deputy prime minister and the Russian leader’s longtime protégé, Mr. Zyuganov said he would have a good chance if no candidate wins an outright majority in the first round of voting. “I believe we have a good chance in this election, and should this election be more or less fair,...

National PR-ity // Moscow drafts a plan to influence the United States The Kremlin has taken up the promotion of Russian interests in the United States head-on. The key role will be given to the Russian-U.S. Council for Business Cooperation (RUCBC) whose supervisory board will include high-ranking officials from the Russian president’s administration, ministers and prominent public figures. The Russian government asked the Finance Ministry to find sources to finance the NGO. However, it has already been suggested that big business contribute for the council’s activities. The first donation is expected to amount to $50 million. Work has in progress...

MOSCOW. March 14 (Interfax) - Russian Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov has blamed the United States for the spread of avian influenza, or bird flu, in a number of European countries, including Russia. "The forms of warfare are changing. It's strange that not a single duck has yet died in America - they are all dying in Russia and European countries. This makes one seriously wonder why," Zyuganov said at a press conference at the Interfax main office on Tuesday. Zyuganov said that he has good knowledge of war gases as he dealt with them during his army service. "I...

MOSCOW, January 30 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Communists, in protest against the resolution denouncing Communist totalitarian regimes, adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, are seeking to retaliate with a memorandum condemning capitalism's record of the past five hundred years, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov told a news conference on Monday. The document will be adopted at an international conference of leftist and Communist parties in Moscow later this year, he said. The draft is almost ready. Last Saturday, it was coordinated by 16 parties from CIS states. "It's a memorandum on crimes committed by liberal capitalist and...

The UN Committee on the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, popularly called the Volcker Committee, has revealed that Iraq collected kickbacks on $64.2 billion of oil and $34.5 billion of "humanitarian imports". The Indian media has focused on the listing of foreign minister Natwar Singh and the Congress Party as non-contractual beneficiaries. Also listed are 130 Indian companies, who paid kickbacks of $2.2 million to get contracts worth $424 million. The companies include big names like Reliance, Tata International, Ranbaxy, Thermax, Dr Reddy's Labs, Godrej and Boyce, Kirloskar Brothers, Wockhardt, Cipla and many others. In terms of money, this is a...