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  • Turkey offers Ukraine help with evacuation

    RT - May 14th 2022 12:36pm EDT

    Russia has so far not agreed to the plan, according to the Turkish presidential spokesman Turkey has offered to evacuate Ukrainian fighters and civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top adviser Ibrahim Kalin told Reuters on Saturday. Under the Turkish scheme, wounded Ukrainian fighters and civilians would be […]

  • EU eyes gas-price cap – media

    RT - May 14th 2022 11:32am EDT

    Brussels may allow EU members to cap gas prices for consumers in case of Russian supply cut The European Commission may waive competition regulation in order to let EU nations put caps on gas prices for consumers if Russian gas supplies stop, German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported on Saturday. According to the commission document […]

  • West accused of ‘state piracy’

    RT - May 14th 2022 10:55am EDT

    It has completely undermined its reputation as a “predictable partner,” Russia’s top diplomat has said The West has declared a “total hybrid war” against Russia, resorting to open “robbery” and “state piracy,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. Everyone “without exception” is set to feel the impact of this war, the top diplomat […]

  • France denies Ukrainian president’s claims

    RT - May 14th 2022 10:45am EDT

    Volodymyr Zelensky claimed French leader Emmanuel Macron urged him to up give up some sovereignty to end the conflict with Russia French President Emmanuel Macron has “never” asked Volodymyr Zelensky to make territorial concessions to end the ongoing conflict with Russia, contrary to statements by the Ukrainian leader, the Elysee has insisted. During a Thursday […]

  • One more nation to adopt euro

    RT - May 14th 2022 10:31am EDT

    Croatia is set to become the 20th member of the eurozone The Croatian parliament has approved a law on adopting the euro on January 1, 2023. Lawmakers voted 117-13 in favour of replacing the kuna with the European single currency. Under the legislation, prices in Croatia will be displayed in both currencies from September this […]

  • Russians won’t ‘risk lives’ on US spacecraft – Roscosmos

    RT - May 14th 2022 10:19am EDT

    Cosmonauts won’t use American spacecraft over safety concerns, even if an agreement with NASA is reached Cosmonauts will not fly on American spacecraft over safety concerns, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia’s national space agency Roscosmos, said on Saturday. He added that the agreement with NASA to share seats on each other’s spacecraft hasn’t been […]

  • Ukraine has ‘suspended’ peace talks – Putin

    RT - May 14th 2022 9:57am EDT

    Kiev has not shown interest in “serious” and meaningful dialogue, the Russian president said The negotiations process between Russia and Ukraine has been “de facto suspended” by Kiev, President Vladimir Putin has said. He made the remarks during a phone call with his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinisto, on Saturday. “Vladimir Putin, in particular, shared his […]

  • Russian Football boss rules out Asia switch

    RT - May 14th 2022 9:29am EDT

    RFU president Aleksandr Dyukov confirmed that his body is not considering the move The president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) has debunked rumors that the organization plans to leave UEFA and switch to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Reports have routinely claimed that the RFU was considering the move after UEFA and its global counterpart […]

  • Russia warns of EU’s end

    RT - May 14th 2022 9:20am EDT

    Ukraine’s ideology is incompatible with the bloc’s values, Deputy FM says A decision by Brussels to initiate the procedure of Ukraine’s accession to EU membership would signify the end of the 27-member bloc, Russia’s deputy foreign minister Alexander Glushko has warned. Modern Ukraine is a “state where Nazi groups rule the show and Nazi ideology […]

  • Russia’s oil revenue soars despite sanctions – Bloomberg

    RT - May 14th 2022 9:08am EDT

    The country has earned roughly $20 billion per month from crude exports this year Russia’s oil export revenue has jumped some 50% since the beginning of 2022, Bloomberg reports, citing data from the International Energy Agency (IEA). According to the agency’s monthly market report, Moscow has earned some $20 billion each month this year from […]

  • Bulgaria’s natural gas price surges

    RT - May 14th 2022 9:08am EDT

    The price spiked after Sofia rejected Russia’s demand to pay for supplies in rubles The natural gas price in Bulgaria has soared by 13.7%, the state news agency BTA reported on Friday. Bulgaria’s Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) has set a new price of 162.17 BGL, or €82.83 per megawatt hour (MWh) compared to […]

  • Intoxication ruled valid defense for violent crimes

    RT - May 14th 2022 8:58am EDT

    Canada’s Supreme Court has axed a 1995 law that made such a defense illegal Defendants accused of violent crimes like murder and sexual assault may use self-induced extreme intoxication – known as “non-mental disorder automatism” – as a defense in a criminal court, Canada’s Supreme Court decided on Friday. The court has ruled that a […]

  • Russia halts electricity supply to Finland

    RT - May 14th 2022 6:31am EDT

    The suspension of power exports to the Nordic state comes after nearly 10 days of nonpayment Electricity supplies from Russia to Finland were halted on Saturday, RAO Nordic said in a statement, explaining that it had received no payment for power provided to the country in May. “Unfortunately, we are forced to note that for […]

  • Russia weighs in on nukes in the Baltics

    RT - May 14th 2022 6:21am EDT

    Moscow’s response to Finland and Sweden joining NATO won’t be based on emotion but on analyses of security factors – Deputy FM The move by Finland and Sweden to join NATO won’t be left without a Russian response, but it’s premature to talk about it including relocation of nuclear weapons closer to the two Nordic […]

  • Andrey Sushentsov: Ukraine could be just the starting point of a bigger crisis

    RT - May 14th 2022 6:12am EDT

    There are several scenarios facing Moscow, Kiev and the West Why do Russian-Ukrainian relations concern every Russian and Ukrainian? To some extent, what is happening is a delayed civil war, which could have happened in the early 1990s with the collapse of the USSR, when the first generation of Russian and Ukrainian leaders boasted that they had avoided a bloody divorce like the one […]

  • India bans wheat exports

    RT - May 14th 2022 4:10am EDT

    New Delhi had previously claimed it could “feed the world” in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine India has prohibited all exports of wheat with immediate effect, the country’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced on Friday. The ministry said the drastic move was necessary due to “a sudden spike in the global prices […]

  • Russian economy stronger than expected – JPMorgan

    RT - May 14th 2022 3:02am EDT

    The Wall Street bank predicts only a moderate recession due to sanctions Russia’s economy is coping better with Ukraine-related Western sanctions than could be expected, JPMorgan Chase said in a note to clients dated last week and made public on Monday. According to the biggest US investment bank, business sentiment surveys from the country “are […]

  • US sending fresh troops to Europe

    RT - May 14th 2022 1:33am EDT

    The deployment will maintain US troop levels at around 100,000 on the continent The United States will send more than 10,000 soldiers to Europe, who are expected to replace forces deployed to the region following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, many positioned along the “eastern flank” of the NATO military bloc. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed […]

  • North Korea suffers major spike in ‘fever’ outbreak

    RT - May 13th 2022 11:37pm EDT

    Officials tallied a near ten-fold jump in new patients in the space of just 24 hours North Korea has reported a massive surge in a mysterious “fever” outbreak, including almost two dozen additional deaths and tens of thousands of new cases. Kim Jong-un called the epidemic one of the greatest “turmoils” in the nation’s history. […]

  • NSA promises ‘no backdoors’ in new encryption

    RT - May 13th 2022 9:03pm EDT

    Spy agency claims future encryption standards will be too secure for it to bypass The National Security Agency’s cybersecurity chief has claimed that next-generation encryption standards under development in the US will be unbreachable, even by the American government spies themselves. “There are no backdoors,” Rob Joyce, the NSA’s director of cybersecurity, told Bloomberg in […]

  • Biden’s new press secretary claimed elections were ‘stolen’

    RT - May 13th 2022 7:23pm EDT

    Twitter posts surface in which White House spokeswoman pushed to overturn Trump’s win, said her preferred candidates were robbed White House press secretary Jen Psaki spent part of her last day on the job trying to do some explaining for her successor, whose history of claiming elections were stolen might seem out of step with […]

  • US may have to suspend weapons shipments to Ukraine

    RT - May 13th 2022 6:29pm EDT

    Aid to Kiev may be disrupted if Congress doesn’t pass $40 billion spending package by May 19, Pentagon says The flow of US weapons to Ukraine might be cut off, at least temporarily, unless Congress quickly approves nearly $40 billion in new spending to help Kiev repel Russia’s offensive in the former Soviet republic, the […]

  • Mysterious Mars ‘doorway’ explained

    RT - May 13th 2022 6:19pm EDT

    The bizarre structure is a naturally occurring phenomenon, geologists say A photograph taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars that resembles a doorway cut into the side of a cliff is actually just boring old erosion, scientists explained, after people began speculating that the squared-off structure might have been crafted by alien species. What appears […]

  • Clashes erupt during journalist’s funeral in Jerusalem (VIDEOS)

    RT - May 13th 2022 5:21pm EDT

    The funeral of an Al Jazeera reporter escalated into violence between Palestinians and Israeli security forces Clashes erupted in Jerusalem on Friday during the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian journalist who had worked with Al Jazeera for more than two decades. The reporter was killed earlier this week under unclear circumstances during […]

  • Germany detects Hitler fans in its security ranks

    RT - May 13th 2022 5:15pm EDT

    Government report shows that over 300 members of German security services have links to ‘right-wing’ extremism A German government investigation has revealed that more than 300 members of the country’s security agencies have links to “right-wing” extremism, including officers who were found to have joined in “Heil Hitler” chants and Nazi salutes. “We will not […]