“Last month, the Armenian electricity monopoly, owned by a Russian conglomerate led by one of Vladimir Putin’s close associates, received permission from a government commission to significantly increase prices,” The Washington Post recalls. People took to the streets of Yerevan in protest. They…
Member of the US Senate Richard Durbin has categorically denied the authenticity of the letter in which he allegedly gives the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk recommendations on the reshuffle in the government. The fake letter, as reported by Durbin's press service, has already been reported to the CIA and the FBI. Representatives of the senator, in particular, drew attention to the mistakes made by the author of the forgery. So,…
Over the past decade, Russia has shown the greatest departure from democratic standards. This is stated in a new report by the US-based nongovernmental organization Freedom House The researchers also point out that other authoritarian states have resorted to drastic steps to block the formation of new democracies anywhere in Europe ...
The social network Facebook began testing the publication of news media without hyperlinks. Facebook's "delicate" negotiations with publishers continued for several months. Nine companies, including NBC News and the New York Times (NYT), agreed to the deal, despite concerns that ...
The heyday of Russian-language media in America fell on the 80s and 90s. During the fourth wave of immigration, more than a million people arrived in the United States who spoke Russian and spoke little English. In response to their needs, Russian newspapers, radio stations began to open ...
Pyotr Fedotov, a witness to the Boeing crash in Ukraine, said in an interview with RT that Reuters attributed words to him that he did not say. On March 12, Reuters published a material in which, based on eyewitness accounts, it was claimed that the Malaysian Boeing was shot down from the territory of the separatists. Fedotov was one of the witnesses. As stated in the report, Fedotov on camera ...
Facebook has offered some media outlets to post their publications directly on the social network, that is, to read the materials, users will not have to leave Facebook. The company is already in talks with National Geographic, The New York Times and BuzFeed. To the deal already ...