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No NATO “Volksgenossen” - No Nobel Peace Prize
News that Russian/Armenian investor and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is driving Romania’s far-right batty. Romanian MPs and MEPs of the National Liberal Party (PNL) are gnashing teeth and pulling out hair over the former Minister of State of Artsakh’s nomination for his efforts to help implement hundreds of humanitarian projects in Armenia, Artsakh, and the Armenian world…
Russia and Laos: How friends meet
President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic Thongloun Sisoulith, a graduate of the Russian Herzen State Pedagogical University, visited a festive Moscow, where he attended the Victory Day parade and held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On 9 May, at the Victory Parade in Moscow, among the foreign heads of state accompanied by Vladimir Putin, there was a modest and friendly man wearing glasses. The man smiled, spoke in Russian, followed the events with sincere interest and respect, and proudly wore a St George’s Ribbon on the lapel of his coat…
Deadly Crashes and Assassination Attempts on PMs and others: Blame it on the Weather, Lone Wolves, BUT Not US Foreign Policy, CIA & “Don’t Believe in Coincidences!’’
What is happening is the world reminds me of JW Bush Jr., and his famous quote, “You are with us or against us on foreign policy, no riding-the-fence.” One of the first things you learn as a journalist is not to believe in coincidences. There have been just too many lately: the death of the Iranian president and the threat on the life of a Georgian PM, and all the other recent “near misses,” such as Robert Fico…
