Media: Putin is personally involved in hacker attacks in the US elections

Russian President Vladimir Putin “with a high degree of probability” was personally involved in the campaign to interfere in the US presidential election. This was reported by NBC News with reference to high-ranking sources in American intelligence. This information came from diplomatic and some ...

Will Trump's victory be a disaster for Ukraine?

Today, in my opinion, it is impossible to say with 100% certainty what Trump’s policy on Russia and Ukraine will be - there are too many different factors with different weights, which also influence each other. Here they are (the list is not complete). Factors against Ukraine...

Putin’s support rating in Russia hits record

The approval rating for the activities of Russian President Vladimir Putin in November 2016 reached 86%, which is the maximum for this term of his presidency. This is evidenced by the results of a study by the Levada Center. This is one of the highest rates of approval for his activities in general, with a similar level of support ...

Putin told how the father of Patriarch Kirill baptized him as a child

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he was secretly baptized as a child by the father of the current head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Kirill (Gundyaev) Mikhail. The head of Russia spoke about this in the film “Patriarch,” which was aired on the Rossiya-1 TV channel in honor of Kirill’s 70th birthday. "When I...

Russia withdraws from the Treaty on the International Criminal Court for the Crimea

Russia will withdraw from the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court after the tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, in a preliminary investigation called the annexation of Crimea an armed conflict. An order to this effect, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been published on the Kremlin's website. IN…

Putin and Trump on the phone discussed Syria and Russian-American relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump held telephone conversations, during which they discussed the further development of relations between Russia and the United States. Both interlocutors “agreed on the assessment of the current extremely unsatisfactory state of Russian-American relations and spoke in favor of an active ...

In the new series “The Simpsons” Putin is agitating for Trump, and he is building a casino on the site of the Kremlin

The new 600th episode of the popular animated series The Simpsons will feature Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is encouraging Americans to vote for billionaire Donald Trump, and promises that his hackers will provide the Republican candidate with 102% support. The announcement of the new series is published on YouTube. IN…

Are the USA and Europe starting to wake up?

Has the attitude of Europe and the United States towards Russia changed in the light of recent international events? Analyzing the reports of the American and European press and statements of officials, one can come to the conclusion that Vladimir Putin has crossed another “red line”, beyond which new ones may await him ...

A new round of escalation of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia: what you need to know

The beginning of August was marked by a new round of aggravation of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow. On August 7, the Russian side suddenly closed the checkpoints on the administrative border of Crimea and even evacuated customs officers from them, TSN writes. Shooting was heard in the Armyansk region in Crimea, messages were sent ...

Ex-head of the CIA called Trump “Putin’s“ unwitting agent ”

Former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency Michael Morell called Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump an “unwitting agent” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He wrote about this in his column for The New York Times. “Putin plays on vulnerable places...

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