POLITICS
Russian Duma puts Russian law above rulings of intl human rights courts
MPs have expanded the law on the right of the Constitutional Court to annul rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to all international bodies for the protection of human rights. Now, Russia will be able to ignore the rulings of the UN Human Rights Committee. The Constitutional Committee of the State Duma...
Full Ukrainian control of Russian border would trigger collapse of militant ‘republics’
The Kremlin's opportunistic tactics to conquer and hold land in Ukraine has remained unchanged since Russian troops began their 2014 invasion, according to Euan MacDonald, the editor of the English-language newspaper The Kyiv Post, Ukraine Today reports. The journalist argues that the worst-case but unlikely scenario, the...
Tymchuk: Russian proxies beefing up task forces near Horlivka, Yasynuvata
Head of the Information Resistance Group and MP Dmytro Tymchuk reports that the combined Russian-separatist forces are actively strengthening their tactical groups "Trucks with ammunition – 10-15 vehicles per day – arrive in Horlivka. Armored vehicles (four BMP-1, BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles and two...
Crimea blockade coordinator brands naval blockade «military operation»
Lenur Islyamov, the coordinator of a so-called Crimea blockade, announced another type of blockade planned besides the energy and naval ones, although refusing to elaborate on its nature. "Between the energy and naval blockade of Crimea there will be another one, and you will soon learn about it. I’m not going to...
“The Most Risky … Job Ever.” Reporting on “ISIS in Afghanistan”
ISIS in Afghanistan, Trailer The viciousness with which the self-proclaimed Islamic State has treated journalists is, sadly, well ingrained. In August 2014, the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for last Friday’s horrific attack on Paris posted a video online showing the beheading of kidnapped...
Turkish PM says Turkey cannot be ‘brought to its knees’ by Russian economic sanctions
In a speech during a visit to Baku, Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu again defended Turkey's action, declaring that his country cannot be "brought to its knees" by Russian economic sanctions imposed in response to Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane, according to the Associated Press. "Those...
Reuters: Obama says additional U.S. forces will help «squeeze» IS
President Barack Obama said his decision to send more U.S. special forces to combat Islamic State in Iraq is not an indication that the United States is headed for another invasion like the one in 2003 that locked it in a long, violent conflict, according to Reuters. Obama has said his strategy to fight the militant group in...
20 militants ATTACK NEAR Ukrainian forses Avdiyivka it Tuesday evening
A group of 20 terrorists approached a Ukrainian fortified position near the town of Avdiyivka in Donbas and started firing on the ATO forces at 19:10 Kyiv time on Tuesday, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. "The Ukrainian military immediately opened fire in response. The...
«Islamic state» beheaded Russian man (VIDEO +18)
Terrorist organization "Islamic State" published the video, which shows brutal murder "Russian spy". As the channel NBC, the video is named "You will be disappointed and humiliated, the Russians." According to NBC, on the video is an unknown man kneeling in front of another man, who has...
End of ISIS? Putin ‘sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State’
VLADIMIR Putin is preparing to send 150,000 troops to Syria in a bid to wipe out the evil Islamic State once and for all as he hints at joining the West following the Paris attacks. The Russian leader is reportedly mounting an enormous military mission to take control of the terror group's stronghold of Raqqa. The city is...
IS could mount cyber attack in Japan – Bloomberg
Japan is at risk of cyber attacks on its essential infrastructure by Islamic State, Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission of Japan, cabinet minister Taro Kono said in an interview with Bloomberg two weeks after a series of lethal terrorist attacks in Paris. "What we need to be most concerned about is Islamic...
Maidan crackdown: two years ago Berkut riot police brutally beat students. PHOTOS
At 4 a.m. on Nov. 30, 2013, about 300 Berkut riot police officers launched their bloody crackdown on Maidan protesters. At least 1,000 people stayed on the square at that time, mostly students. The dispersal was extremely cruel. First, people were surrounded at the monument, then a fierce beating started. The policemen were...