President Obama: fight with more ‘ideas, jobs and good governance’
President Obama called upon a conclave of world leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday to fight violent extremism not just with weapons but with ideas, jobs and good governance, a strategy he “has long advocated.” “It More...
Putin critic and anti-Ukraine war leader, Boris Nemtsov murdered
A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say. An unidentified attacker in a white car shot Nemtsov four times in the back More...
US, Saudi, OPEC blamed for lowing oil prices to hurt Russia, Iran
Why are gas prices dropping? How low with the price of oil fall? Questions that the most ignorant American may be thinking as they see prices plunge lower and lower. Even as prices began dropping, fingers pointed More...
Russia: US, allies manipulating oil prices to crash the ruble
The head of Russia’s external intelligence agency has made a bold accusation on Thursday: Washington and its allies are pursuing a regime change policy towards Russia, deliberately introducing sanctions and More...
John Kerry, David Cameron blame Putin, Russia for separatists shooting down Malaysia plane
It was quickly clear Russia supporters were behind the shooting down of Malaysia flight 17 which killed nearly three hundred. Now the world’s governments are all pointing fingers and attempting to place blame: U.S. More...
US ramps up more sanctions against Russia, but ‘not Putin directly’
The United States has issued a new round of sanctions reports SRN News. The new sanctions were put on Russian allies and intend to ban visas and freeze assets of Igor Sechin, the executive chairman of Rosneft oil More...
Edward Snowden questions Vladimir Putin on surveillance in Russia
During Vladimir Putin’s televised call-in show, one of the TV anchors interrupted viewers’ questions to air what she said was a “sensational video” for the Russian president: a message from More...
Russia continues ‘dark path’ as they seize Ukraine naval base in Crimea, raise their flag
Russian troops took control of Ukraine’s naval headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol and raised their flag on Wednesday. Russia has moved quickly to make Crimea part of Russia after the overwhelming vote More...
Putin signs treaty to annex Crimea, ignores US sanctions, critics target John Kerry’s attack on Mitt Romney
Voters spoke in Crimea as support to leave Ukraine and become part of the Russian federation moved forward as Vladimir Putin signed a treaty on Tuesday to annex the divided region. photo donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com US More...
Hillary Clinton ‘clarifies’ comparing Putin to Hitler as ‘reminiscent’ of Nazi Germany
Hillary Clinton may have aspirations of a run for US President in 2016, but comparing Russia’s handling of the Ukraine crisis to Hitler and the Nazis may not have won her any fans. donkeyhotey [email protected] Now More...
The Painful Truth From Putin
A New York Times op-ed by the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin agitated the American warmongers like a bully on the playground who at first chose not to fight. Vladimir Putin photo Russian Presidential Press More...
Actor Stephen Fry calls Olympic boycott due to Russia’s anti-gay stance and ban, comparing it to Hitler
Stephen Fry has written an open letter to the International Olympic Committee and the Prime Minister, asking for an “absolute ban” on the Russian Winter Olympics over the swell of homophobia in the nation, More...
Pussy Riot releases new video, ‘Like in a Red Prison’, compares Putin to an ‘ayatollah in Iran’
The four members of the Russian fem-punk band who are not in prison have released their first performance in nearly a year, in the YouTube video, “Like in a Red Prison”. Video Screen Shot In the song, More...
New video game allows players to ‘kill’ members of Pussy Riot
The members of the Russian fem-punk rock band, Pussy Riot, are not only spending time in a Russian prison (2 of them), for “extremist hooliganism” after staging an anti-Putin performance in Moscow’s Christ More...
Vladimir Putin signs ‘gay propaganda’ bill into law in Russia
Just days after Russia’s upper house, the Federation House, has approved a bill introducing fines for propaganda of non-traditional sex relations to minors, including in the media, on the internet and via More...
Russian President Vladimir Putin defends record on free speech amid arrests of protesters, Pussy Riot and other reports
Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his government’s record on free speech and rejected a claim it uses “Stalinist” methods, during a week when two international rights groups issued scathing More...
Police arrested anti-Putin protesters, more rallies expected in May VIDEO
Russian police arrest dozens of protesters in Red Square, Moscow, on Saturday as they take part in an anit-Putin demonstration. The protest was to call for another election process and to bring attention to jailed More...
Miss Russia 2013, Elmira Abdrazakova, says the Pussy Riot sentencing ‘too harsh’
The newly crowned Miss Russia 2013 has already come out expressing her thoughts about the two-year prison sentence of punk rockers, Pussy Riot, and she thinks the punishment was to harsh, according to an NBC news More...
Vladimir Putin signs ban on Americans adopting Russian children
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday that bans Americans from adopting Russian children and imposes other sanctions in retaliation for a new U.S. human rights law that he says is poisoning relations. President More...
Pussy Riot members shipped to Russian prison camps east of Moscow
Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, convicted in August on charges of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” following a performance critical of president Vladimir Putin, More...
