Muhammed Shabeer Roman Kononenko from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation talks about the ongoing referendum in Russia on the constitutional reforms proposed by president Vladimir Putin. He also talks about how the country handled the COVID-19 pandemic A referendum on the constitutional reforms proposed by Russian president Vladimir Putin began on June 25….
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US Blocks Russia-Sponsored UNSC Statement on Incursion in Venezuela
Statement by Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, during the VTC of UN Security Council members on Venezuela Mr. President, We thank Under-Secretary-General on political and peacebuilding affairs Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for the briefing. I want to indicate from the outset that the situation we are facing today is unfolding…
On the Frontlines: Red Army Veteran Moritz Mebel Talks About His Battles Against Fascism
Franziska Kleiner Moritz Mebel (left) in Dresden in 1945. On the 75th anniversary of Victory Day, which commemorates the surrender of Hitler’s Germany in World War II, we bring you the recollections of Red Army veteran Moritz Mebel who took part in grueling campaigns against the Nazis from the gates of Moscow to the Czech…
The Soviet Victory in the Battle of Berlin Defeated Nazi Germany
Bill Dores In one of the war’s most iconic images, Red Army soldiers raise Soviet flag over the ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin, on May 2, 1945. Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei May 9, 2020, is the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. At least 80…
Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan Macleod From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment. May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies’ victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed…
Russian Plane With Medical Equipment Lands at New York’s JFK Airport
Sputnik The United States is currently the nation hit hardest by the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), topping the global infection tally with more than 206,200 cases registered, according to the Johns Hopkins University count. A Russian Air Force Antonov An124 carrying medical equipment to help fight the COVID-19 outbreak has landed at New York’s JFK…
Can COVID-19 Take Down NATO?
Ann Garrison The Pentagon insisted on going ahead with provocative NATO war games near Russia’s borders, despite the coronavirus epidemic, but Germany pulled its forces out and closed its roads to troop movements. “The virus will spread on the more than 800 US bases strategically scattered around the globe, causing worry and fear in the…
Operation Barbarossa II: Setting The Stage For War
Christopher Black I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for as of the last week in January the Americans and their gang of…
A Silence Not at All Casual
Atilio Borón This February 2nd was the anniversary of a date that was completely ignored by the deceitful global hegemonic press: the end of the Battle of Stalingrad (according to historians the bloodiest in the history of humanity) with the defeat of Hitler’s Wehrmacht at the hands of the Red Army and the civilian combatants…
75 Years Later, Survivors of the Extermination Camp Remember the Liberation of the Red Army at Auschwitz
Evgeny Kovalev was captured by the Nazis during a partisan reconnaissance mission in 1943. Loaded on a freight train, he had no idea he was being taken to Auschwitz and was unaware of the hell that awaited him there. Now, 75 years after the Red Army liberated the infamous extermination camp in January 1945, Kovalev…
Statement by the Alliance of the Libyan National Gatherings on the Moscow Meetings on the Libyan Conflict
The Alliance of the Libyan National Gatherings, which includes a number of civil society organizations, national parties, human rights associations, writers, researchers, diplomats and academicians, has closely followed up the efforts recently exerted in Moscow to end the war and find a peaceful solution to the Libyan crisis. While we welcome every sincere effort from…
LNA: We Will Not Sign Any Document Favouring Militias at the Expense of the Libyan People
An official source at the General Command of the Libyan National Army (LNA) revealed early on Tuesday the reasons for not signing the ceasefire document in Moscow. It stated that the most important of these reasons is Turkey’s intention to utilize the agreement as a tool to impose itself as a signatory and party in…
