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What’s Chechnya doing in Syria? As Russia has increased its presence in the Middle East, Chechnya has come to play an important role for Moscow in a number of ways. Not only did its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, use his personal authority and contacts to convey Kremlin messages for several regional...

Pentagon plan to seize Raqqa calls for significant increase in U.S. participation Armed men in uniform identified by allied Syrian fighters as U.S. Special Operations forces ride in the back of a pickup truck in the village of Fatisah in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa on May 25, 2016...

:mjlol::mjlol::mjlol: POLICE in Russia are investigating a rush of teenage suicide attempts amid fears that they may have been manipulated by sinister social media groups. Two schoolgirls Yulia Konstantinova, 15, and Veronika Volkova, 16, fell to their deaths on Sunday from the roof of a...

Definitely not the actions of a guilty person brehs. :mjcup: FBI said nah so they sought out anyone in IC to chat to newspapers to say it's BS.:russ: Also banned couple of mainstream papers today too. :russ: Trump is feeling it. :merchant:

Russia Overtakes Saudi Arabia as World's Top Crude Producer Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest crude producer in December, when both countries started restricting supplies ahead of agreed cuts with other global producers to curb the worst glut in decades. Russia pumped 10.49...

US President Donald Trump receives a figurine of a sheriff during a meeting with county sheriffs at the White House on February 7. Photo: Reuters / Kevin Lamarque Lots of shouting, tiny stick Donald Trump won't be winning any wars against Islamist terror if he imagines dismantling the...

Homeopathy officially doesn't work, according to Russia's top science body "Damning report urges people to treat homeopathy 'on a par with magic'. The Russian Academy of Sciences has become the latest body to declare homeopathy has “no scientific basis” and endangers people who believe it to...

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It fits with traditional values, lawmakers say SHOULD it be a crime for a husband to hit his wife? In many countries this question no longer needs discussing. But not in Russia, where the Duma (parliament) voted this week to decriminalise domestic violence against family members unless it is a...

Trump will try to smash the China-Russia-Iran triangle ... here’s why he will fail

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — The first face-to-face meeting between Syrian rebel fighters and government officials in nearly six years of civil war ended abruptly on Monday when diplomatic talks quickly devolved into harsh words and competing accusations. The new round of talks arranged by Russia and...

Vladimir Putin has claimed there is a conspiracy to “delegitimise” Donald Trump and said the people who ordered a dossier of compromising personal information on the President-elect were “worse than prostitutes”. The Russian President claimed reports of Russia gathering intelligence on Mr Trump...

US troops enter Poland, 1st deployment at Russia's doorstep It is part of a larger commitment by President Barack Obama to protect a region that grew deeply nervous when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and then began backing separatist rebels in Ukraine's east. There are fears...

He also says Russia stepped in to prevent ISIS from growing. Meanwhile in public, US officials claim Assad & Russia are very comfortable with ISIS. NYT didn't publish this part of the audio in its story back 3 months ago. This part came online a few days ago.

:lupe: Russia taking Losses on Christmas? Russian plane crashes with 92 on board, wreckage in Black Sea, Defense Ministry says By Max Blau, CNN Updated 4:34 AM ET, Sun December 25, 2016 [paste:font size="5"] Crashed Russian military plane headed to Syria 03:58 Story...

:merchant::lupe: Calexit’: Yes California movement opens ‘embassy’ in Moscow A campaign calling for the independence of California from the United States has opened an “embassy” in Moscow. The movement, Yes California, is hoping for a “Calexit” break from the US. Speaking at a press...

Rickards is off his hoot IMO. China and Russia isn't the same as the Sino-Soviet split that occurred. The Eurasian project along with all of the other initiatives aren't going to be passed over even if Trump re-establishes full relations with Moscow. But it is a perspective that seems to be...